*THE EXHIBITION HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL AUGUST 31, 2025*
Continue the art exhibitions at the Bastione del Parlascio: from 29 June to 17 August 2025 on display the works of painter Paolo Lapi.
Opening vernissage on Wednesday 2 July at 6 p.m.
Lapi died 9 years ago and in his productive career has explored many of the currents of contemporary art: expressionism, informality, abstraction. He has dozens and dozens of personal and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In 1979 he was awarded the title of Knight of the Republic for artistic merit.
In the pictorial works exhibited at the Parlascio predominates the constructive force of color, a peculiar linguistic element through which the artist arrives at the gradual disarticulation of form, within a sort of abstract naturalism with a strong chromatic stamp.
The exhibition can be visited with the entrance ticket to the walkway of the walls, every day with time 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
THE ARTIST. Paolo Lapi was born in 1935 in Pisa, where he lived and worked for over sixty years, always experimenting with new formal and stylistic solutions. After graduating from the Istituto d'Arte di Porta Romana in Florence, at the end of the fifties he started his artistic activity by participating in impromptu painting prizes. Important his contacts, direct or indirect with the viareggini Lorenzo Viani and Renato Santini and with the pisani Umberto Vittorini and Salvatore Pizzarello. In 1961 he met Gastone Breddo, who presented a solo show at the Bottega dei Vageri in Viareggio. In the same year, Franco Russoli visits his studio and returns the following year. These meetings are very important for the development of his painting. Russoli will present him to the gallery owner Cairola, introducing him in Milan. Since those years he holds personal and participates in important prizes and national shows in Milan, Florence, Siena, Merano, Iglesias and elsewhere. Gianni Bertini’s visits and stimuli, when he returned to Pisa from Paris, led him to test and assimilate techniques and contents more aware of the new trends. The themes covered range from War Chariots, to Ex voto, to Landscapes, to windows on hedges and gardens, to the Africa cycle, to Notes of an imaginary journey, to Mulberry Cards, to Sopranos, to reflections on the Stele of Luni and to the Read cycle on ancient stones. His participation in prestigious exhibitions in Italy, in Europe and beyond is of absolute importance, both as a painter and as a fine engraver.
