From January to March 2008, the Museo d'arte di Mendrisio will hold an exhibition of the work of Gregorio Pedroli, an artist from Ticino who received public and critical acclaim for his one-man show in 1995 at the Museo Epper in Ascona and for the 2004 exhibition at the Museo cantonale d'arte in Lugano of his recent work.
Born in 1951 at Sorengo, Pedroli trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel and at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. His early artistic career was influenced by these two different environments - artistic circles of the northern Alpine area and Italian art which was still imbued with naturalism and the Informal style of the Lombard school. Pedroli opted for painting as his preferred medium, and concentrated from the start on the expressive potential of sign and colour. From explicit biomorphic figuration he gradually moved towards a figurative form which was merely hinted at, and recently, rather surprisingly, introduced into his work geometric elements combined with an increasingly calligraphic style, full of tense emotion.

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