TILSON, Joe (Londra, 1928 - Londra, 2023)Alchera 1970-1976

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Joe Tilson, English sculptor and painter, studied at St. Martin's school of art and the Royal college of art in London. He won the Prix de Rome (1955) and was in Italy until 1957; he later taught at various art schools in England and at the School of visual art in New York (1966). One of the leading figures in English pop art, Tilson experimented with different materials (paint, wood, Plexiglas, etc.) and techniques (from collage to photomontage and engraving), arriving at original solutions in the 1960s with his series of paintings and constructions inspired by children's interlocking games (Key-box series; Spiral-box; etc.) or the ziqqurat theme. He exhibited at the XXXII Venice Biennale in 1963 and won the Grand Prize at the Krakow Graphics Biennale. In 2001, a retrospective of his works was organised in Castelbasso and at the Giò Marconi Gallery in Milan. In the same year he was appointed a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.
In recent years he has exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Cristea Gallery and the Beaux Arts Gallery in London, and the Bugno Art Gallery in Venice. Tilson's works can be found in museums all over the world, among others at the Tate Gallery in London, the Museo de arte in São Paulo, the Kunsthalle in Basel, etc.