Artist: Mark Kostabi. Medium: Original Serigraph. Title: Date Night. Size: 35x35cm. Hand Signed and Numbered. Pino Procopio was born in 1954 in Guardavalle, Calabria. He enjoyed modelling clay since nursery school. In middle school he made erotic drawings, for which he was reproached many times. He attended the art school and then enrolled at the faculty of Architecture in Rome, never neglecting his artistic activity. In the 1970s, during his walks through Rome, he started to attend some of the galleries. His first exhibition opened in Rome at the La Bitta art centre in 1980. After that, he had a flourishing artistic career, rich in productions and exhibitions in the major Italian towns. Procopios artworks express irony, sarcasm and even cynicism. His artistic expression is provocative, without preconceptions, revelation of an intellectual delicacy. Now Procopio is recognised among the greatest Italian and international masters of the 20th century.: Artist and Composer Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles in 1960 to Estonian immigrants. Raised in Whittier, California, he studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton. Kostabi moved to New York in 1982, and by 1984, emerged as a leading figure in the East Village art scene where he cultivated a provocative media persona by publishing self-interviews reflecting on the commodification of contemporary art. By 1987, his work was widely exhibited in New York galleries as well as prominently throughout the United States, Japan, Germany and Australia. He inspired extensive international press coverage in 1988 when he founded Kostabi World, his Manhattan art studio, which employs numerous painting assistants and idea people. Beginning in the early 1990s Kostabi's work has been widely exhibited throughout Italy. Kostabi established a second home in Rome in 1996. Dividing his time between Rome and New York enabled him to dramatically enhance his presence in the Italian art scene..