ENNIO PUCCINELLI (11-04-1945/27-03-2020)

Born in Viareggio (LU-Italy), Painter, and, as he himself called, a seeker a vager, “Man on Board, a Man of Honor and respect, from Vagatio: Wandering, without a fixed dwelling”.

His adventurous life and lived largely at sea, his first love, initially as a sailor, electrician, chef for the Aga Khan, consultant and finally shipyard Manager in Turkey.

Perpetually in love with life and incurable romantic, he loved freedom, life in the open air, the Sun, Beauty and Art in all its forms.

In his Paintings we find abstract figures, boats, Sea landscapes, aquarium, but also geometric figures.

Many paintings were for his women, his son Riccardo and his beloved nephew Raffaele, to whom he dedicated many of them

The passion for painting reached him in middle age, together with the culinary art ( he was a skilled Chef, much appreciated both, by the owners and by the customers of the restaurant “The Arcano del Mare” in Viareggio, where he worked for several years).

His tasty and creative dishes are still remembered in dinners with friends and relatives.

Turkey was his adoptive homeland, which welcomed him, like a son, and it is here, that after his Death, which, took place in a very difficult historical period, the 2020 year, in the midst of the pandemic, he leaves his loyal paintings and Thanks to her friend Pınar …..

Pınar takes the pen for two words;

“Ennio was a kind of father for me… I’ve learned to love everything with an open heart from him, he was able to alchemize every situation in a positive way and his incredible ability to adaptation in every complicated situation taught me how to survive for 22 years in a complete “man’s world”. His way of cooking was sometimes pissing me off sometimes astonishing me