With his scientific background (Chemistry degree in 1976), he graduated at Accademia di Brera in 1982.
In 1983 he starts to exhibit mostly in Italy, Switzerland and Germany.
He taught at the “Scuola Politecnica di Design” in Milan and now at the “Università Cattolica” of Milan.
“My work develops starting from the primary expressive elements: line and color. It ideally continues the lineage and experience of painting that goes from Rothko to Pollock, from Jasper Johns to Brice Marden and is unrelated to Minimalism and the obliteration of form that occurred in the sixties.
Based on these essential elements, I proceed through a process of constructing relationships. These relationships eventually form an image capable of continuously activating our perception, induced by sensations generated by the vision of the image produced.
If the beauty in the classical was defined as unity, proportion (measure) and efficient clarity (relationships that are directly sensations – for example classical Greek sculptures), now there is a need of new criteria that include the antique relationships of the beautiful, yet renew the category.
Therefore: to remain in relationship with the painting through the gaze signifies experiencing the search of the stable relationships within what one sees.
(a gaze from afar involves the mind, yet at the same time, although we are unaware of it, it involves the body too, since it is a sensation)
Lines end colors constitute these finite relationships; yet they are continually new to the sight reflecting a new measure. In this new measure of relationship between image and scheme of the brain, we can establish the beautiful.
The category of beautiful can thus find a base, after the parenthesis of the romantic sublime, with its infinite indefiniteness and the related indifference of form in Duchampian sense.
The beautiful requires a form that relates to the individual through a connection that does not weaken but rather thickens, enriches and conquers our attention.
The beautiful, therefore, as a form that continuously responds, based of a contemporary humanism that is open to infinite possibilities, but with measure as it’s essence.
The choice of the connection with the work is for a relationship “at distance”, apollonian.
We could say that the work pursues an internal logic and dynamics of painting based on an unpredictable grid, structured on minimal color variations, with the scope of stimulating a series of sensations susceptible to incessant, unexpected and variable perceptive adjustments.
The work thus relates, in it’s concrete plasticity, directly with the abstract schemes of our brain.
It’s richness of form and color relates to our sensation following a new proposition for the beautiful.”
2018
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, "La forma della pittura"
2017
Milano, Galleria Monopoli
Lissone, Museo Arte Contemporanea (installazione permanente)
2014
Mantova, Galleria Disegno
Michelstadt, Galerie Kautsch
Milano, Marcorossi Arte Contemporanea (con Paolo Serra)
2013
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, “Opere recenti”
2011
Bologna, Galleria Studio G7 (con E Habicher)
Freiburg, Galerie Albert Baumgarten
2010
Seregno, Galleria Artesilva
Michelstadt, Galerie Veronica Kautsch
Milano, “L'Anima del Colore”, Galleria Il Milione
2009
Milano, Spazio Vittadini
2008
Milano, Museo Diocesano
Milano, Fondazione Zappettini
Basel, Galerie Carzaniga
2007
Bazzano, Rocca dei Bentivoglio, “Pitture”
Freiburg, Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Мalerei
Michelstadt, Galerie Veronica Kautsch, Pitture 2004 2007
2006
Milano, Museo della Permanente, “Paolo Iacchetti. La traccia invisibile del reale”
2005
Koeln, Galerie Stracke, “Paolo Iacchetti”
2004
Basel, Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker, “Paolo Iacchetti”
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, “Paolo Iacchetti”
Milano, Galleria Rubin, “Stati del corpo”
2003
Bologna, Galleria G7,“Paolo Iacchetti. Dimensioni”
Colombier, Galerie Numaga, “Paolo Iacchetti”
2002
Casale Monferrato, Galleria Rino Costa, “Paolo Iacchetti”
2001
Basel, Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, “Paolo Iacchetti
Milano, Galleria Valeria Belvedere, “Paolo Iacchetti”
2000
Mainz, Galerie Bausmann, “Paolo Iacchetti"
Neuchatel, Galerie Numaga, “Paolo Iacchetti. Peintures”
1999
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, “Paolo Iacchetti. Magia del colore”
1998
Basel, Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker, “Paolo Iacchetti”
Mainz, Galerie Erik Bausmann, “Paolo Iacchetti”
Parma, Galleria Mazzocchi,“Paolo Iacchetti. Espansione
1997
Bologna, Galleria G7, Lausanne, Galerie Niu d'art, “Paolo Iacchetti”
Roma, Galleria Giulia, “Paolo Iacchetti. Elementi”
Stuttgart, Galerie Dobele,
1996
Basel, Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker, Paolo Iacchetti”
Heidelberg, Galerie Grewenig, Paolo Iacchetti”
Mantova, Galleria Disegno, Paolo Iacchetti”
1994
Milano, Galleria Reggiani, Paolo Iacchetti”
1993
Basel, Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker, “Paolo Iacchetti. Il mondo fatto et il mondo creato”
Basel, Galerie Carzaniga & Uecker, Iacchetti
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Paolo Iacchetti”
Nonantola, Comune di Nonantola. Sala delle Colonne, Paolo Iacchetti”
1992
Milano, Studio Reggiani,“Paolo Iacchetti”
1991
Bologna, Galleria Mascarella, “Paolo Iacchetti”
Milano, Studio Reggiani,“Paolo Iacchetti”
1990
Frankfurt, Frankfurten Westend Galerie, Paolo Iacchetti (con Tommaso Cascella)
Parma, Galleria Mazzocchi, “Paolo Iacchetti”
1989
Milano, Galleria Morone 6, “Polo Iacchetti”
Suzzara, Galleria 2E Associazione culturale, “Paolo Iacchetti. Interno di pittura”
1988
Bologna, Galleria Mascarella, “Paolo Iacchetti”
1987
Milano, Galleria Morone 6, “Paolo Iacchetti”
Roma, Galleria Arco di Rab, “Paolo Iacchetti. Autobiografia del blu”
1983
Milano, Galleria Cesare Manzo,”Paolo Iacchetti”