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The purpose of this virtual catalogue is to illustrate several masterpieces of Vincenzo Ottone Petrillo. Here you will find the authors most complete collection of paintings, which iare part of an important private gallery.
Vincenzo Ottone Maria Petrillo: Biography:
Vincenzo Ottone M. Petrillo was born in Rome , Italy on August 14 th, 1932. Child of Elvi Giovanelli and Ottone II° Petrillo. Petrillo's father was the director of the auto body sector of their industry Fides-Korrof-Russia 1913-18. Vincenzo Ottone Maria Petrillo attended the Art Institute of Rome, the Academy of Beautiful Arts of Rome, the Academy of Beautiful Arts of France in Rome . Vincenzo Ottone Maria Petrillo lived and worked in Via Margutta 83, in Rome.
He made experience in Studio's in France , Spain , Belgium , Holand , Switzerland , Soviet Union , Turkey , Afghanistan , Indonesia and Africa .
He has exhibited in the most important art manifestations in and out of Italy .
Biennial of Venice
Biennial of Art in Rome
Biennial of San Paolo ( Brazil )
Winner of 25 prizes, such as:
1 st Prize San Fedele Milano
1 st Prize Cesenatico
1 st Prize Spoleto
1 st Prize Fiorino Firenze
1 st Prize President of Council of Ministers in Rome
1 st Prize Gubbio
Most important art shows: Palazzo Antici Mattei Roma, Palazzo Firenze Roma (paintings, scupltures, music and photography), Carloni and Agostini.
His works are found in private and public collections:
Galleria Comunale, Roma
Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Roma
Palazzo Acciaiani, Spoleto
Castello Metternick Rotibur, Austria
Villa Bianchi, Micel
Tiziana Collection, Venezia
Nervi Collections, Roma
New York
Villa Ombra, Formello: Canvas, m. 6 x 4 painting, relief, steel, light machine
Villa “Paglicetto” Di Giacomo Silvestrini Torre in Pietra, Roma
Other collectionists: Prof. Rodolfo Cametti (Cultural Goods), Architect Fiorentini,
Architect Claudio Dall'Olio, Architect De Vita, Architect Savani from whom he received bids of € 100,00 for each painting.
He used to teach painting and decorations at the Institue of Ornamental Art in Rome , S.Giacomo
1943 Theater in Villa (from Brenta's memory) Afghanista Kabul, new quarter.
• Theatrical Action in the Square or Pordenone Roma
• Together with Giorgio Falcidia, Filippo Marignoli, Bruno Toscano, Pietro Raspi, Leonardi Leoncino, Roberto Melli, give principle at the first art shows and first festivals of Spoleto
(Villa Cittadini di Colle Risana)
They accomodate for the first time in Rome these followign artists: Devoux Magritte, Lismond, with Laura Bellini's co-operation:
Exhibition at the Marborough Museum at the “La Medusa” gallery in Rome .
• Exhibition at the Palazzo Callicola di Spoleto.
Exhibition at the Gallery “Tartaruga” Via del Babuino.
• Exhibition at the Gallery “L'Asterisco” of Rome .
Exhibition at the Gallery “S. Fedele” of Milan .
Exhibition at the Gallery “L'Obelisco” of Rome .
• Exhibition at the Gallery “Barbaroux” of Milan ,
“Two Infinite Columns” Oil on canvas (m 4 x 0,80), Vittorio Bellisario collection
Exhibition at the Gallery “Alibert” of Rome
Exhibition at the gallery “La Medusa” of Rome
• Exhibition at the Gallery “ La Saletta” of Turin .
Ennio Flaiano collection, 3 paintings.
Exhibition of Young Artists Paintings at Moscow .
Exhibition of Italian Contemporary Art at Cannes .
• Fiat al olasz festonmuvezzet kiabitlas Budapest
Exhibition at the Gallery “L'Attico”, Piazza di Spagna, Rome.
• Exhibition Prize “ Scipione” Macerata.
Exhibition Palazzao Antici Mattei Roma (painting and music).
• Paints on canvas (m 7 x 6) for Claudio Dall'Olio (Hotel Mondial, in Via Torino, Rome)
Exhibition at the Gallery “Il Quasar”, Rome .
Makes sculpture for R. Nati two reliefs: one of polimetric wood (m 4 x 3), the other one
Suspended in travertino punctured marble and paints “Journey to Infinity” (m 4 x 3).
Makes sculpture for Claudio Dall'Olio on two reliefs with more than one medium (m 6 x 4)
At the Boito cinema in Rome.
• Exhibition, itenirary across United States .
Exhibition of Mobile Assembled Sculptures “bones, gold, wax, bronze” Rome .
“Casa Adrianne” Metronia Door “white six hundred wax rags” painting (6 x 5 m )
• R. Sonnino home, Via Giulia, Rome: sculpture, painting.
Palazzo Firenze Roma: painting, sculpture, music, photograph.
Gabriele D'Annunzio Prize.
Selection of chosen works, Modern Art Gallery of Rome.
“The Quasar Studio” with Claudio Abate: painting, smoke, mirror, photography. Via del Babuino, Rome.
• Palazzo Barberini (Quasar): painting, sculpture, musical recital.
Collaborators: Paoloa Caracciolo, Giulio Bosetti, Eduardo Torricella, Grazia Marescalchi, Claudio Abate etc.
• Exhibition and first Assemblage: bodies, sculpture, wax, gold, cristal, perforated paper,
music, Venice 700, hat portrayals “mesciolan” Capri, “Carloni” Genova, “Rivierard” New York etc.
Sixth Biennial of figurative Art of Rome.
• Personal Show at the gallery “ Visser”
Faenza Prize: rotating sculpture, words.
Assemblage Gesture “human body, flesh and steel” in the film: “The Gesture”.
Performance in the Aldobrandini Villa ( Rome ); lasting five years: painting, rotating sculpture, music plus empty chimera, more opening towards infinity.
Petrillo “negative space shows castel” in the Rome area.
• Performance in the Palazzo Barberinin in Rome : human body.
M. Grottesi in the film “ The Gesture” presented at Cannes , Paris , Turin , Naples etc.
“A together of Nothing”, show at Rome , Paris , London and New York .
Interrupted words, entrance, gallery of Modern Art ( Rome ), Paris, Turin , Naples , Cannes with Marcello Grottesi ( figuranti ).
Wins with Marcello Grottesi first prize of cinematography at Cannes with “The Gesture”.
Sacred Rise at the potshred mount at Testaccio ( Rome ): sculpture, lignes, ash, fire, painted rocks, filmed by “Gesture”, Cannes , Paris , Turin , Naples etc.
• “An infinite of moments”, assmeblage of steel, laser plus Amleto. ( Rome )
• S. Egidio Museum ( Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome ) “Rising directional Analysis Painting” : painting, music, sculpture, voice and film with M. Latanza, Marcello Grottesi etc.
• Becomes scenografic writer and costume designer.
• Show in hibernated couple with Luciano Felci.
• Show at the gallery “Klein” ( Vienna ) with Kiriam.
Paints 400 mq of polymetric for Count Armando Tosio Rome, Venice .
Makes sculpture for designer series Pegasi (Pallavicini m.s. Agnelli Lodigiani ecc collection).
Paints two canvas 3 x 2 m “ Group of Family in a cosmic interior” and “Hunger in the World” for collector Armando Pastori
Paints with Miriam portrayal of Cardinal Nasalli Rocca, Papa Pacelli, Papa Ratti, Paolo VI, Papa Roncalli, Papa Luciani e Giampiero Petrillo.
• Performance in the S.M. Church in Montesano (Piazza del Popolo, Rome);
“Requiem Mass” of Mozart directed by Erbert von Karajen (playback): sculpture Giamperio Petrillo's head ( bronzo dorato ) reading of the telegram on hibernation (Antonio Latanza letter).
• “Mirroir D'Applique” (mirror, sand, oil, gold and photograph); Vinciani Mirrors of V.O.Petrillo and M. Miriam, Piazza del Popolo 20: (“Vinci” Men fashion, presented by Franco Ferrara).
“The Great White Mother” 3 x 2 m approximately: mirror, cristal, gold, photograph,(lastra uova molecolare bianco e raffia: Architect B. de Vita Collection.
1983 Chained Prometheus” oil on canvas 3 x2 m exhibited by Vinei at door of gold with painters and Franco Ciuti ( Rome ).
Works on a 7 x5 m canvas, oil on canvas.
“Musugio Universalis + computer laser; from the Divine Commedyof Dante for the collector of automatic musical instruments (strumentation) Antonio Lanza in Rome .
Paints portrait of the Arab Minister of Nuclear Research of Venice: Fadil KheirjAl Kabbani.
1984 Makes sculpture of two silver candlesticks and a series of jewels for Dr. Armando Pastori plus three canvas', one of which “Hunger in the World” 3 x 2 m ( Rome ).
• “Infinite musical Column” rotating mobile 18m, Via Margutta 83, Rome.
• “Evolution III” 35 m , oil on canvas, Via Margutta 83, Rome.
• “Simultaneous Crussifiction”, canvas and steel 5 x 3 m , Via Margutta 83, Rome .
1989 “Cosmic Cellular Mobile Ceiling”, Via Margutta 83, Rome.
“New Quasar” , Santa Riat Church in Piazza Campitelli in Rome.
Cosmogenesi 8 x 6 m of mobile steel and laser from dea Roma at the Campidoglio to the
Santa Rita Church to infinity. Concert from Phoenix of Venice ( piano, harp, flute and
Violencello) muscial partitio created specifically for the (mostra più musica Austriaca
D'inizio secolo), film with Laurence Oilver, Amleto oltre, Pino Santoro Production, Rome.
Twelve 3 x 2 m canvas', conference under the canvas “Cosmogenesis” of the Italian Universities for the respect of atronomical observators plus show with pupils and presentation of the project with Mico Procopio “house of culture in space”.
• Exhibition with Pupils of San Giacomo with rotating project “New Space Like (Spatial?) University.
• “Death and Resurrection”. Fire in Atelier (attic?) Via Margutta 83, Rome : ash, steel, motors, was gold, silk, bronze, scuplture, Borromini, Valadier, Obbusson. (Asburgiche?) chairs, telegram for hibernation, historical archive, books Eva Baret, photographs plus project of the culture house(?), sketcg of quasar, quasar text. Reconstruction of culture house in space with pupils of San Giacomo (Via San Giacomo, Rome ).
People who were interested and wrote: Giulio C. Argan, I. Venturi, G. Etna, I. Pensabene, L. Trucchi, C. Brandi, M. Calvesti, V. Guzzi, G. Falcidia, I. Perfetti, Luca di Lazzaro, D. da Riz, M. Venturoli, Mavuaz, Budigna, R. Melli, L. Leoncillo, F. Ferrara, G. Ovene, A. Lagoni, G. Buschsboom, etc.
• June 15 th , Internal and External performance in the studio Via Margutta 83 Rome (combustion) laser ray (unificante) the San Giacomo school in Via San Giacomo 6, beyond the sky (indication for the University in the Space situation – exhibition of the mobile sphere with pupils Nader, Eleonora Lanzutti, Massimo Bucceri, Gino Ameta, Anna Bonattu, Carla Tassinari, Gabriele Lauri, Ruggero Testasecca etc. Every pupil with an examined (sondata) sphere a picturately examined sphere of a faculty, all done for the mother sphere suspended in the clean atomic propulsion in space, six videos, one of which of Mico Davoli Procopio IBM. The soprano Luisa Morreale sand a msucial piece for Tristano and Isotta da Richard Magnan studio. The viscount Emanuela Carafa Iacobini gives start to the symbolic ceremony in Via Margutta. Sponsor for the laser, Villa Letizia, Via delle Sette Chiese, Rome.
• Exhibition in Via Margutta 83 studio, Rome: twelve canvas' plus paintings, sculptures, photgraphs and project for the Venice Phoenix, The Auditorium etc.
• Exhibition “Aurea Domus” Via del Boschetto 3, wood support, hanger, gold, burns, Valadierm Death and Transfiguration.
• Exhibition “Manifestation and Literature”, Domus Area, Via del Boschetto, Rome.
• Exhibition in the Domus Area, Rome. Via del boschetto, Rome. “Andromeda and Frank-llloyd-Wirh”
Restores painting “The starving singer” 800 copu from Ponturno for Dr. Armando Pastori.
• For the “Patrizi and Plebei” place, mural decoration from “Pompei beyond Pomepi”
• Makes wall decoration, mirror, oil, panel for Carlo Maria Ferri's Attic.
• Paints a portrait for the married couple Perone cm 40 x 30, oil on canvas from Van Eyk – more than one sketch at china, Viale 21 Aprile 61, Rome .