This book was published by Magazzino Italian Art Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition Lucio Pozzi: Qui Dentro/In Here curated by David Ebony in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art at Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, New York, March 7–June 23, 2025.
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2025938626
© 2025 Magazzino Italian Art Foundation
About the Artists
Lucio Pozzi, born in 1935 in Milan, Italy, is an influential artist who has worked across various media and artistic approaches. After studying architecture and managing a graphic design workshop in Rome, he moved to the United States in 1962, initially attending the Harvard International Summer Seminar before settling in New York City. A dual citizen, Pozzi now divides his time between studios in Hudson, NY, and Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona, Italy.
Pozzi is a pioneer of multidisciplinary art-making, often presenting works in multiple mediums within the same exhibition. His early videotapes were showcased in 1978 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, one of the first solo exhibitions in the Projects: Video series. That same year, Pozzi exhibited watercolor landscapes at the John Weber Gallery, a space known for Conceptualism, where he had previously installed large painted walls and photographs with fragmented elements.
Pozzi's work has been shown in major museums and galleries worldwide, including Documenta 6 (1977) and the Venice Biennale (1980). His multi-show exhibitions took place at venues such as the University of Massachusetts, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, and a three-gallery show in New York in 1984. Additionally, he has occasionally written and taught at institutions such as Cooper Union, Yale, and Princeton. Pozzi’s work is held in major collections worldwide, and his contributions to art have cemented his reputation as a pioneering figure in contemporary art.
About the Contributors
Born in Morrisville, PA , and raised in Trenton, N.J., David Ebony studied media and communications, and art history at Trenton State College, and at the University of Madrid, Spain, on a junior year abroad scholarship. Soon after graduating in 1976, Ebony moved to NYC, where he immersed himself in the art and music scenes of the day. While working as a musician in the pop-punk band The Erasers he co-founded with artists Susan Springfield and Jane Fire, Ebony ran a short-lived experimental art space, David Ebony Gallery in Tribeca. After the gallery closed in 1977, he moved to London and traveled extensively in Europe and India.
He returned to New York in 1979 and eventually enrolled in New York’s Hunter College graduate program, studying with theorist Rosalind Krauss, artist Robert Morris, and art historian William C. Agee. After earning his MA , Ebony joined Art in America where he worked for over thirty years, eventually becoming the magazine’s managing editor. A long-standing member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), Ebony is a senior editor at Snap Editions, and author of “David Ebony + Art Books,” a long-running 120 column for Yale University Press online. Aside from Art in America, he has contributed articles to Artnet News, The Brooklyn Rail, The Magazine Antiques, and Upstate Diary, among other publications. He also teaches a graduate seminar in art history and theory at the New York Academy of Art. Ebony is an independent curator; among his exhibitions, aside from the present Lucio Pozzi survey, are Hans Frank: Cosmic Art, Hudson Hall, 2024; and “Grasshopper: A Judy Pfaff Survey,” CR10, Linlithgow, NY, 2016.
Ebony is the author of numerous artist monographs, including Stephen Antonakos: Neon and Geometry (2023, Rizzoli), Larry Poons (Abbeville Press, 2023); Julio Larraz (Rizzoli, 2021); Enoc Perez (Dallas Contemporary, 2018); Beatriz Milhazes (Taschen 2017); Arne Svenson: The Neighbors (J. Saul, 2015); Emily Mason: The Fifth Element (George Braziller, 2006); Botero: Abu Ghraib (Prestel, 2006); Carlo Maria Mariani (Volker Huber, 2001); and Graham Sutherland (Musée Picasso Antibes, 1998). With spouse Bruce Mundt, Ebony divides his time between Brooklyn, NY, and Clermont, NY.