Piergiorgio Colautti
1934– · Italian painter and sculptor from Rome
Piergiorgio Colautti (Rome, 1934) is an Italian painter and sculptor who has worked in Rome. His work is recognised for a personal style, sometimes labelled "Hyperfuturism", in which figurative elements are intertwined and overlaid with symbols evoking a modern, cold technological world. Born into a family of sculptors, he moved to Veneto when the Second World War began, where he attended a design school and mixed with Venetian painters.
After spending time in Ancona and Macerata, he returned to Rome in 1958 and attended the School of Ornamental Arts. That same year he held his first solo exhibition at La Scaletta gallery, encouraged by his mentor Alberto Ziveri. He later exhibited in France, the United States, Canada, Germany and Great Britain. He also worked in fresco, lithography and sculpture, and his works are held in public and private collections. He additionally wrote journalism, following in the footsteps of his grandfather Arturo Colautti, and published poetry in 1982, though his legacy rests mainly on painting.