Antonio Trotta was born in Paestum (Salerno), Italy, in 1937.
In 1949 he moved to La Plata, Argentina, where in the 1960s he became one of the promoters of the SI group.
Trotta’s artistic path began in Buenos Aires at the Museo de Arte Moderno and at the Torcuato di Tella Institute; in 1968 he was invited to the Venice Biennale to represent the Argentina Pavilion. From the end of 1969 to 1973, Antonio Trotta realized many architectural and urbanistic projects in Italy and abroad. Additionally he illustrated some cover pages for the magazine “L’architettura, Cronache e Storia”.
Starting from materials such as wood, copper, glass or iron wire, Trotta subsequently and definitively arrives at marble. In his works he manages to change the properties of marble, making it light and transforming its consistency up to oxymoronically turning it into paper, one of the lightest and most perishable materials.
His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibition in national and international galleries and museums such as three Venice Biennale (1976, 1978, 1990), the Modern Art Gallery in Rome (1980), the Pac in Milan (1982, 1988, 1989), the National Museum in Osaka (1979). In 2007 he inaugurated the Antonio Trotta Archives Museum in Stio, where many of his works are kept, together with documents, photographs and testimonies.
He died in Milan in 2019.
