Gino Pellegrini (1941 – 20 December 2014) was an Italian film set designer and painter.
Gino Pellegrini | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 August 1941 Lugo di Vicenza, Italy |
| Died | 20 December 2014 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Painting |
Born in Lugo di Vicenza, at age 16 Pellegrini moved to Los Angeles, where he attended the architecture course at UCLA and then achieved a master's degree in Fine Arts.[1] After a brief period of work in the poster advertising field, he entered the cinema industry, where he worked as a scenic painter and set designer.[1] His film works include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Mary Poppins, Fantastic Voyage, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Birds, and West Side Story.[1] After about fifteen years in California, in 1972 he came back to Italy, where he worked in the fields of stage design, video filmmaking and documentaries.[1] In San Giovanni in Persiceto, in two stages between the 1980s and the 1990s, he realized the "Piazzetta degli inganni" ("Little square of deception"), consisting in some trompe-l'œil scenes painted on the walls of the houses around Piazza Betlemme (Betlemme square).[1][2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Franco Giubilei (20 December 2014). "Addio allo scenografo Gino Pellegrini: lavorò per Disney, Kubrick e Hitchcock". La Stampa. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
- ^ "E' morto Gino Pellegrini, lo scenografo che lavorò per Disney e Kubrick". La Repubblica. 20 December 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.