Editing Ugo Nespolo (section)

==Life and works==
Nespolo graduated at the [[Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti]] of [[Turin]] with [[Enrico Paulucci]] and obtained a degree in Modern Literature at the University of Turin, with a thesis on [[Semiology]].<ref name="gazzettaweb">{{cite web |url=http://www.lagazzettaweb.it/Pages/art_gazz/2003/mainpage/nespolo03.html |title=Ugo Nespolo, opere recenti e arte in musica |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113101049/http://www.lagazzettaweb.it/Pages/art_gazz/2003/mainpage/nespolo03.html |archive-date=13 January 2010 }}</ref>

His career as an artist started in the 1960s. His work was influenced by [[Pop Art]], which was becoming popular in Italy in those years, [[conceptual art]], [[Arte Povera]] and [[Fluxus]]. He had a chance to see and appreciate closely these movements during a trip to the United States in 1967. He would then continue to regularly visit the States, where he would spend long periods of time, especially during the 1980s.<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/arts/28iht-rcartnes.html?pagewanted=2 |title=Special Report - Contemporary Art - Back to the Futurists - Nespolo's World |access-date=30 January 2011 | work=The New York Times |date=28 November 2009}}</ref><ref name="CinemaPiemonte">{{cite web |url=http://www.cinemainpiemonte.it/enciclopedia/schedapersonaggio.php?personaggio_id=109 |title=Ugo Nespolo – Enciclopedia del cinema in Piemonte |language=it |access-date=30 January 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref> Irony and transgression became key element in Nespolo's art and characterised his work for many years to come.<ref name="LASTAMPA">{{cite web |url=http://www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplRubriche/Torino/digito/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=179&ID_articolo=539&ID_sezione=368&sezione=Municipio%20-%20Le%20testimonianze |title=L'Obelisco di Nespolo – lastampa.it |access-date=30 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322004831/http://www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplRubriche/Torino/digito/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=179&ID_articolo=539&ID_sezione=368&sezione=Municipio%20-%20Le%20testimonianze |archive-date=22 March 2012 }}</ref>
Since 2010 he has been member of the Honour Committee of "Immagine & Poesia", an artistic literary movement founded in Turin, with the patronage of [[Aeronwy Thomas]] ([[Dylan Thomas]]'s daughter).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://immaginepoesia.jimdo.com/who-s-who-in-the-movement/ |title=Who's Who in the Movement - immaginepoesias JimdoPage! |access-date=3 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116235430/http://immaginepoesia.jimdo.com/who-s-who-in-the-movement |archive-date=16 November 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2016 he signed the [[pptArt]] Manifesto,<ref>{{cite web|last=Nastro|first=Santa|title=Arte e aziende. Nasce il Manifesto della Corporate Art: lo firmano Ugo Nespolo, Alexander Ponomarev e Fernando De Filippi|url=http://www.artribune.com/2016/11/arte-aziende-nasce-manifesto-corporate-art-lo-firmano-ugo-nespolo-alexander-ponomarev-fernando-de-filippi/|newspaper=[[Artribune]]|location=Rome|date=21 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pptart.net/manifesto|title=The pptArt Manifesto}}</ref> an international art movement that promote many notable initiatives like the [[Corporate Art Awards]].

===Cinema===
In the mid-1960s Nespolo started to work with [[experimental cinema]]. His first film, ''Grazie, mamma Kodak'', is from 1966. His friends and fellow artists such as [[Lucio Fontana]], [[Enrico Baj]], [[Michelangelo Pistoletto]] and others appeared regularly in his films. Nespolo's second film, ''A.G.'' (1968), documents the visit to Turin of [[Allen Ginsberg]].<ref name="CinemaPiemonte" /> In 2001 he directed ''Film/a/TO'', with the main character role played by [[Edoardo Sanguineti]]. Nespolo's films have been exhibited in institutions like the [[Centre Georges Pompidou|Beaubourg]] in Paris, the [[Philadelphia]] Museum of Modern Art, [[Warsaw]]'s Filmoteka Polska and [[Ferrara]]'s Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}}. Nespolo has produced and directed about twenty films over forty years.<ref name="CinemaPiemonte" />

===Applied arts===
[[File:Ugo nespolo, packaging del 150° anniversario del gianduiotto, 2015 (coll. caffarel).jpg|thumb|Example of a special packaging created by Nespolo for the 150th anniversary of [[Gianduiotto]]]]
In the 1980s, Nespolo made [[ceramics]] and [[blown glass]] objects, created over fifty posters for exhibitions and other events, did advertising campaigns for ''[[Campari]]'' and ''[[Azzurra]]''<ref name="NYTimes" /> and realised title sequences for shows on the Italian national broadcast television [[RAI]]. In 2002, Nespolo was appointed artistic coordinator for the ''[[Turin Metro|Metropolitana di Torino]]'', with the aim of realising the first "underground museum of modern art". Several underground stations are decorated with his glass etchings and images.<ref name="metrotorino">{{cite web |url=http://www.metrotorino.it/images/comunicare/pdf/metronews3.pdf |title=www.metrotorino.it |language=it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060605092313/http://www.metrotorino.it/images/comunicare/pdf/metronews3.pdf |archive-date=5 June 2006 }}</ref>

===Theatre===
In 1986 Nespolo had the possibility of designing the stage sets for [[Ferruccio Busoni]]’s opera ''[[Turandot]]'' at [[Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra|Connecticut Grand Opera]], [[Stamford, Connecticut|Stamford]], the first of several theatre works he made in the following years, such as the sets and costumes for [[Paisiello]]'s ''[[Don Chisciotte]]'' at the [[Teatro dell'Opera di Roma]] in 1990<ref>{{cite book|last=Pugliaro|first=G.|title=Opera '90. Annuario dell'opera lirica in Italia|year=1990|publisher=EDT srl|isbn=88-7063-088-9|pages=254}}</ref> and for [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]]'s ''[[L'elisir d'amore]]'', a production for the Rome Opera, the [[Paris Opera]] and the [[Lausanne Opera]], [[Liège]] and [[Metz]] in 1995.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pugliaro|first=G.|title=Opera '95. Annuario dell'opera lirica in Italia|year=1995|publisher=EDT srl|isbn=88-7063-266-0|pages=203}}</ref> In 2007, he designed stage and costumes for [[Puccini]]'s ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'' at the [[Festival Puccini]] 2007 in [[Torre del Lago]].<ref name="PUCCINI">{{cite web |url=http://www.puccinifestival.it/eng/categorie.asp?idcat=14 |title=FESTIVAL PUCCINI |access-date=31 January 2011 |archive-date=20 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920071913/http://www.puccinifestival.it/eng/categorie.asp?idcat=14 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Palio and traditions===
Nespolo was appreciated also for his work with ''[[Palio]]s''. In 1998, he was committed the ''Palio'' for the ''Giostra della [[Quintain (jousting)|Quintana]]'', [[Ascoli Piceno]].<ref name="Ascoli">{{cite web |url=http://www1.comune.ascolipiceno.it/quintana/palii_artisti.htm# |title=I Palii e gli artisti |language=it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722024210/http://www1.comune.ascolipiceno.it/quintana/palii_artisti.htm |archive-date=22 July 2011 }}</ref> In 2000, he was awarded for his work for ''[[Palio di Asti]]''<ref name="Asti">{{cite web |url=http://www.comune.asti.it/manifestazioni/palio/maestri/00nespolo.shtml |title=2000: Ugo Nespolo |language=it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718121053/http://www.comune.asti.it/manifestazioni/palio/maestri/00nespolo.shtml |archive-date=18 July 2011 }}</ref> and in 1991 and 2009 for the ''Palio'' of the ''[[Giostra della Quintana]]'' in [[Foligno]].<ref name="Foligno">{{cite web |url=http://www.quintana.it/quintana-foligno/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=123:rivincita-2009-il-palio-di-ugo-nespolo&catid=67:i-pali&Itemid=89+ |title=Rivincita 2009, il palio di Ugo Nespolo |language=it |access-date=31 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722050605/http://www.quintana.it/quintana-foligno/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=123:rivincita-2009-il-palio-di-ugo-nespolo&catid=67:i-pali&Itemid=89+ |archive-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He was chosen to design the ''[[Palio di Siena#Palio (Drappellone)|Palio]]'' (''Drappellone'' or banner) at the ''[[Palio di Siena|Palio dell'Assunta]]'' in August 2007.<ref name="Siena">{{cite web |url=http://palio.comune.siena.it/news.asp?id=14458 |title=Il Palio di Siena – Applausi per il Drappellone di Ugo Nespolo |language=it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722052959/http://palio.comune.siena.it/news.asp?id=14458 |archive-date=22 July 2011 }}</ref>

===Selected exhibitions===
Nespolo's works covering his whole production have been presented or hosted in major national and international exhibitions.

A selected list of exhibitions and venues is the following:
*''Ugo Nespolo'', Palazzo Reale Arengario, Milan, 1990
*''International Biennale of Ceramics and Antiques'', [[Faenza]] Exhibition Center, 1990
*''International Ceramics Festival'', [[Shigaraki]] Ceramic World, Japan, 1991
*''A Fine Intolerance'' (Nespolo's paintings and ceramics), Borghi and Co. Gallery, New York, 1992
*''Casa d'Arte Nespolo'', Palazzo della Permanenente, Milan, 1995
*Romanian Ministry of Culture, [[Bucharest]], 1995
*''Le Stanze dell'Arte'', Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, 1996
*National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta, [[Malta]], 1997
*Itinerant exhibition, 1997:
**Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, [[Buenos Aires]]
**Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Cordoba, Chateau Carrera, [[Cordoba, Spain|Córdoba]]
**Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno de Mendoza, [[Mendoza, Argentina|Mendoza]]
**[[National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay)|Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales]], Montevideo
*Rocca Paolina/Spello Villa Fidelia, [[Perugia]], 1999
*Palazzo Reale, [[Naples]], 2000
*''Turin, berceau du cinéma italien'', Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2001
*''2001 Italy in Japan'', [[Fukui, Fukui|Fukui]], Japan, 2001
*''International Sculpture at La Mandria'', Villa dei Laghi, [[Venaria Reale]] (Turin), 2002
*Itinerant exhibition in Eastern Europe, 2003:
**Modern Art Gallery, Moscow
**[[St. Petersburg]]
**[[Minsk]]
**Modern Art Gallery [[Riga]], Latvia
*Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris, 2003
*International Film Festival of [[Locarno]], Switzerland, 2003
*Chinese National Museum of [[Peking]], 2003
*Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, [[Vilnius]], [[Lithuania]], 2004
*Guang Dong Museum of Art of Guangzhou, [[Guangzhou|Canton]], China, 2004
*Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, 2004
*Fine Arts Russian Academy, St. Petersburg, 2004
*Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan, 2005
*Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hong Kong, 2005
*''Dentro e Fuori'', Museo Nazionale del Cinema of Turin, 2005
*Museo del Cinema of Turin, 2008
*''Italics'', organized with the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, [[Palazzo Grassi]], Venice, 2008
*48th Ceramics Exhibition of [[Castellamonte]], 2008
*''Nespolo. Ritorno a casa. Un percorso antologico'', [[Biella]], Italy, 2009