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11 October 2019Ettore Spalletti, internationally renowned sculptor and painter, master of conceptual art, died at 79 years old, in his home in Spoltore (Pescara). He was born in 1940 in the nearby Cappelle sul Tavo, in the province of Pescara.

His works have been presented at Documenta by Kassel (1982, 1992), at the Venice Biennale (1982, 1993, 1995, 1997) and in personal exhibitions in Paris (Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1991), New York (Osmosis, SR Guggenheim Museum, 1993, with Haim Steinbach), Antwerp (Museum van Hedendaages Kunst, 1995), Strasbourg (Salle des fêtes, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, 1998-99), Naples (National Museum of Capodimonte, 1999) and Leeds (Henry Moore Foundation, 2005).

In 2014 a circuit of museums formed by the Maxxi of Rome, the Gam of Turin and the Madre Museum of Naples, hosted the most complete retrospective of the artist's work, "Such a white day, so white".