Gino Pellegrini

Gino Pellegrini (1941 – 20 December 2014) was an Italian film set designer and painter.

Gino Pellegrini
Born(1941-08-13)13 August 1941
Lugo di Vicenza, Italy
Died20 December 2014(2014-12-20) (aged 73)
NationalityItalian
Known forPainting

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

  1. Franco Giubilei (20 December 2014). "Addio allo scenografo Gino Pellegrini: lavorò per Disney, Kubrick e Hitchcock". La Stampa. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  2. "E' morto Gino Pellegrini, lo scenografo che lavorò per Disney e Kubrick". La Repubblica. 20 December 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
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