Renato Pengo (born 1943) is an Italian artist and painter, active since 1966 in the artistic languages of painting, photography, video, installations and performances. Biography Pengo was born in Padua. After his academic formation at the Arts Institute at Padua, where he mastered the different artistic techniques and disciplines, in 1969, during his first personal exhibition, the renowned Italian poet and writer Diego Valeri introduced him to the art gallery "Traghetto" in Venice. Two other important personal exhibitions of this period are at the gallery "Il Giorno" in Milan and at the gallery "La Chiocciola" in Padua. During the first half of the 1970s, Pengo's work departed from his academic formation and the existentialistic expressiveness and reached new ways of experimentation. Rigorously cerebral serial structures led to the almost true essence of colour and to the obsessive recording of the distinct characters of an alienated and programmed society. In the wake of this new awareness, Pengo started experimenting with new art languages: performances, happenings, use of the photographic medium and industrial materials. Focused more on the authenticity of the artistic experience, on its effectiveness method that to the acknowledgments of the market, he participated in these years in two national exhibitions: in 1975 at the X Quadriennale in Rome and in 1976 at the annual exhibition of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice. In 1970 Pengo earned the first prize at the "Tenth Triveneta of the Joung Artists". In 1975 he was among the founders of the artistic group Azionecritica, whose artistic activities, such as performances and murales, are carried out in many neighborhoods in Padua, together with the Odin Teatret of Eugenio Barba. In the meantime photography became fundamental for Pengo, both as an experience for conceptual analysis and as a new way of pictorial interaction carried out by manipulating the photographic films. During this period Pengo's most important exhibitions were in Salzburg (Romanischer Keller Gallery), Villach (An Der Stadtmauer), Rovigo (Accademia dei Concordi), Prato (International Exhibition of New Tendencies), Padova (Stevens Gallery, "Matrici e immagini"); Pengo also taught photography during this period. During the first years of the 1980s, Pengo explored new journeys, interior alphabets that render his research even more complex. Two great pictorial cycles belong to this period: "Itinerari dipinti dal tempo" and "Future archeologie", exhibited in Ferrara at the Palazzo Massari, Amsterdam (Italian Institute of Culture), The Hauge (Gallery Van Voorst Van Beest) and