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His career as an artist dates back to the Sixties, the era of Italian to Enrico Baj and Michelangelo Pistoletto . Nespolo's films have been the subject of exhibitions at prestigious institutions like the Beaubourg in Paris, the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw's Filmoteka Polska and Ferrara's Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna. The eighties were the core of his American period. Nespolo spent part of the year in New York and made its streets, shop windows and hamburger cooks the protagonists of his paintings.

This was also the period of Ugo Nespolo's venture into the field of the applied arts. Loyal to the old avantgarde precept that "art needs to be taken into life", he is convinced that the contemporary artist is under an obligation to escape from the prison house of late Romantic cliche. Evidence of this philosophy comes in the fifty or so posters created for a variety of exhibitions and other events, In 1990 .