Sandro COLBERTALDO

He was born in Padua in 1946. In 1954 he moved to Milan, where he still lives and works. He studied drawing and painting with Gian Luigi Giovanola, between 1962 and 1965. he studied with Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Guido Canella and Aldo Rossi at the Faculty of Architecture of the Milan Polytechnic. During his university period he had the opportunity to attend Mario Schifano's Milanese studio. He comes into contact with the avant-garde of Italian Pop-Art, which influences a series of images, entitled "Chiquita-Banana". After graduating, he spent almost three years in Algiers, working as an architect for the Department of Health, in the field of civil cooperation. He traveled through North Africa. The drawings of the flamingos belong to this period. In 1975 he returned to Milan: he worked as a consultant of Design and Image for Kartell and Bassetti. In 1975 he stays for the first time in New York and from there he returns with his first "travel book": a collection of drawings and collages in the form of daily notes, which will be a constant of his artistic work. He collaborated in the Architectural Composition course held by Prof. Antonio Monestiroli at the Faculty of Architecture in Milan, between 1978 and 1981. He participated in various national and international architecture competitions. He has collaborated with several design companies. He won the ADI-Compasso d'Oro award in 1981 with Luceplan. He has collaborated with several design magazines, and in particular with Modo and Interni. He has worked in various public and private buildings, analyzing the relationship between pictorial language and architectural composition. In 1993 he abandoned the profession of architect, to devote himself exclusively to painting. /