Mauro Pipani

Mauro Pipani (born 1953 in Cesenatico, Italy) lives and works between Cesena and Verona. He graduated in 1976 from the Academy of Visual Arts in Bologna under the supervision of Professors Pompilio Mandelli and Maurizio Bottarelli. His career began in 1972 with a group of young artists called “La Comune”, directed by Nobel Laureate Dario Fo. In 1975, he founded at the Academy of Visual Arts an artistic movement called “Via delle Bisce”, in which artists, despite their diverse languages, were united by the intent to produce socially engaged art.

In the 1970s, he collaborated with “Sul Porto”, an art publication directed by Walter Valeri, Stefano Simoncelli, and Ferruccio Benzoni. Pipani’s works are characterised by a layering of materials (gauze, fabric, paper, metal fragments, etc.) and languages such as painting and text. His landscapes balance interiority and exteriority, reality and memory, the local and the global.