Cardi Gallery is proud to present its first exhibition of works by Italian artist Sergio Lombardo (b.1939). Active since the late 1950s, Lombardo was a key member of Italy’s post-war avant-garde and the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo (Piazza del Popolo School), a group of artists based in Rome whose anti-establishment stance signalled a radically new chapter in Italian art. Alongside Mario Schifano, Tano Festa and Pino Pascali, Lombardo played a crucial role in expanding the material and theoretical possibilities of painting at the time, embracing popular subject matter and making use of common industrial materials. Interlacing a critique of mass media with bold and expressive imagery, he and his contemporaries formed a new visual vocabulary that helped develop Pop Art into an international phenomenon. In his prolific work as a psychologist and theorist, Lombardo has continued to produce writings and multi-media works over the last six decades, many of which are presented here in London for the first time