Alfredo Rapetti was born in Milan in 1961. After having attended the school of Comics in Milan at a very young age, Rapetti worked for a few years with the masters Alessandro Algardi and Mario Arlati. From 1998 he began a collaborative work for the photographer Fabrizio Ferri and from 1999 he exhibited his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Milan, at the Salon d'Automne, the Espace Charenton and Grand Palais in Paris, at the M'ARS Contemporary Art Museum, at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, at the Riga Foreign Art Museum in Riga and at the Venice Biennale. Personal exhibitions include those at the Ca d'Oro Gallery in Rome, at the KPMG Foundation in Berlin, at the Maretti Arte Monaco Gallery in Montecarlo, at the VIlla Olmo in Como, at the Albergo della Rovere in Palermo and at the Certosa di San Lorenxo in Padula di Salerno.
Alfredo Rapetti
Alfredo Rapetti is known for his work as a lyricist and as a painter. Like his father, Mogol, known for his collaboration with Lucio Battisti, Rapetti is also a lyricist: in over thirty years, under the pseudonym of Cheops, he has written song lyrics for Laura Pasini, Adriano Celentano, Carlos Santana, Mina. In addition to his lyricist activity, Rapetti is known in the art world as a contemporary painter. This activity has already given him a lot of satisfaction with exhibitions in Italy and abroad in important museums and galleries. His training as a painter comes from the attendance of his maternal grandfather, Alfredo De Pedrini, who from a very young age opened the doors to the world of Milanese art. His pictorial activity began between the sixties and seventies, combining his passion for words with that for pictorial matter. In this way, through a sophisticated technique, the stitching, the artist introduces texts, phrases and words on the pictorial surface. In this way his work addresses existential and universal themes, adding a psychological and conceptual character to the artist's pictorial work.