Paolo Scheggi in London.
Sometimes, paradox as it might sound, less time you have, the more things you actually manage to combine. Thus, during my short but fruitful visit to the UK I made an unexpected discovery: there is an interesting exhibition featuring ca. 30 paintings of Italian artist Paolo Scheggi who lived and worked in Milan in the very heart of London. What a surprise, I thought, just coming from Milan for a couple of days, I immediately found “una mostra del’artista Milanese”, as Italians say. And it is very interesting because I have recently been shown an artwork of Lucio Fontana in one of the private collections of my friends in Turin and when I saw the artworks, I immediately felt that they must be of the similar period…
In fact, when you walk in to the gallery, you are alone with the artworks of Scheggi during the 1960s: the seminal and crucial creative decade prior to his death in 1971 at the tender age of 31.
