in Padua at the Stevens Gallery and at the Civic Gallery. During the same years, Pengo produced a number of videos based on the deceleration of the image, which are presented in many national and international exhibitions such as : Catodica (Rome), Ifduif (Lugano), Le arti del cinema (Verona), Festival Mondial do Minuto in Sao Paulo (Brasil) and at the FilmFestival in Turin (Italy). The strenuously self-reflective character and the strictly contemporary themes of Pengo's artistic research put him in a particular position in the Italian and European contemporary art landscape. At the beginning of the 1990s Pengo's interest turned to anthropology and psychoanalysis. During this period Pengo participated in the many conventions as "Mind´s Cosmogonies" (Padua, 1996) by Luigi Pavan and Gian Piero Brunetta; "L'énigme du visible" (Paris, 1998) by Vanessa Delouya. The "Technological shock", Pengo's original intuition that opened up a new dimension of knowledge, belongs to this period. The "Technological shock", according to the famous French art critic Pierre Restany, is the expression of a poetry that evolves in the spiritual and imaginary universe, pregnant with vibrations and cosmic energy in a space that becomes the immaterial void. The most significant exhibitions during these years were in Madrid, Tunis, Paris and New York. Towards the end of the 1990s, his work was enriched by new materials such as plexiglas, slate and iron, while the predominant colors were the rose red and the cobalt blue. In 1999 in the Palazzo del Monte di Pieta´ in Padua an important exhibitions took place : "Percezioni mutanti" (catalog by Electa). In 2000 Pengo created a video manifesto that gave birth to a pre-linguistic and non-readable writing, consisting of figurative signs and fugitive words. Two important cycles belong to this period : "Oltre il Titolo" and "Maree", exhibited in Padua (the Dante Vecchiato Gallery), Florence (Palazzo Vecchio), Arezzo (Sala dei Grandi) and Ancona (Mole Vanvitelliana). In 2002 an important work by Pengo was acquired by the Museo d'arte dello Splendore in Giulianova. In 2004 a multimedia installation was displayed in the house of Piero della Francesca at Sansepolcro. During 2008 the following exhibitions took place : "Traghettare il tempo" at the National Museums at Villa Pisani (Stra), "Oltre" at the Net Center in Padua and "Oltre l'immagine" at the Civic Museum at Piazza del Santo in Padua. References Renato Pengo Opere 1966-1996, ed. Canova, 1996 with essays by : Pierre Restany, Giorgio