Sergio Lombardo

Italian artist Sergio Lombardo produced his first body of work between 1958 and 1961, which involved a series of grid paintings made of paper squares pasted on canvas, coated with monochrome enamel. The artist worked in opposition to the artist-as-genius notion, producing works that were non-artistic and non-subjective. Starting in 1961, he became involved with the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo (also known as the Pop artists of Rome) which included artists Mario Schifano, Cesare Tacchi, and Renato Mambor. Lombardo became interested in mass media and began his series Gesti Tipici in 1961 which portrayed many of the most important and iconic political figures of the time period, in black and white, including Malcolm X, McNamara, Rockefeller, and De Gaulle. 

Lombardo has exhibited at the Galleria La Tartaruga, Galleria La Salita di Roma, Salone Annunciata di Milano, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Jewish Museum in New York, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Mudima Foundation in Milan, the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Trento, Rovereto MART, among many others.