Massimo Pulini

Italy, 1958

Massimo Pulini was born in Cesena on 15th of August 1958, he lives and works in Italy.

Actually he works as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, after been working in various Fine Arts academy around Italy.

Painting is his first artistic activity and since 1976 he has shown his works in many art galleries and museums, in Italy and abroad.

In the early 80s he took part to basic exhibitions cured by the critics Maurizio Calvesi, Italo Tomassoni and Italo Mussa. These shows gave life to art grouping called Anachronists, Iper-mannerists or Cultured Paint.

Afterwards, he faced a long individual research, dialoguing with the History of painting and with memory, which lead him to set up great solo exhibitions in Italian, French an English museums.

He has been doing researches in the History of Art for twenty years and he has published various sages on important scientific reviews.

In 2000 he has been invited to show some of his works at the important retrospective exhibition about “Italian Twentieth century” prepared at the Quirinale and cured by Maurizio Calvesi and paul Ginsborg.

In 2002 he was commissioned to decorate a vault in the private Pope’s library by the Vatican Museums.