page_title: Turi Simeti
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Turi Simeti / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Turi Simeti. 108 ovali neri, 1968. Collage on canvas, 150x150 cm
context_page_description: Turi Simeti is an Italian painter born in Alcamo, Sicily, Italy.
context_section_description: Simeti started working as an autodidact when he arrived in Rome from Sicily in the 1950s.Rome at the time was one of the most dynamic artistic and cultural spots in Europe.  His first art works consisted of collages of fabric, paper and cardboard, in a serial repetition. In the mid-sixties he moved to Milan where a new artistic scene was emerging: he joined there the members of the Zero group, such as Enrico Castellani, Agostino Bonalumi, amongst others.
  In 1965, Simeti was part of the young generation of Italian artists reunited in the Zero Avantgarde show organized at the Lucio Fontana’s atelier in Milan alongside Heinz Mack and Otto Piene and many other art pioneers from Europe, South America and Japan.  This was a turning point in Simeti's career, who then started holding solo shows, with a particular audience in Germany and Switzerland, and later in Brazil where he lived from some time.
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