Ercole Pignatelli was born in Lecce on April 18, 1935, since 1953 he has lived and worked in Milan. From 15 to 18 he attended the G.Pellegrino Art Institute in Lecce and was a pupil of the sculptor Aldo Calò and the painter Luigi Gabrieli. Later he takes painting lessons from Lino Suppressa, who in 1953 will present his works to the city club of Lecce. In the same year he arrives in Milan and visits the retrospective exhibition of Picasso at the Royal Palace, being thunderstruck.
He settles in the Lombard capital and frequents the Jamaica Bar, where he makes friends with Ugo Mulas, Piero Manzoni, Salvatore Quasimodo, Giorgio Kaiserlian, Lucio Fontana, Milena Milani, Carlo Cardazzo, his gallery owner. He meets the poet and writer Raffaele Carrieri. In 1954 he won the San Fedele prize for young people given to him by Carlo Carrà. From this moment on, his artistic career will be studded with important national and international acknowledgments and satisfactions, including participation in the 1978 and 2011 Venice Biennials.
In 2011 invited by President Formigoni, he painted two murals "Germinations" at the regional headquarters of Palazzo Lombardia. In 2015, the architect Fabio Novembre allows him to work at the Palazzo dell'Arte of the Milan Triennale (Sala Impluvium) and makes 130mg in 24 days in front of the public. In 2017, the Azimut Society, in Corso Venezia in Milan, organized an anthology for him under the title "Financial Patronage". In 2020 his autobiography Ercole Pignatelli was published. Metamorphosis, edited by Fortunato d'Amico.

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