Regarded by critics and collectors as "a master in the school of sheet metal art"

Enzo Pazzagli was born in Pietraviva, a small village in the tuscan countryside between Arezzo and Siena. It was there that he passed his childhood and adolescence, learning the art of wrought iron from his blacksmith father, gaining familiarity right from boyhood with this material that still fascinates him even today for its "ostentatious reluctance."
At the age of twenty he moved to Florence, where he still lives and works today.
Enzo Pazzagli's creative career began well before his movement toward art with some patented inventions. In '55, he patented an innovative fabric holder for use in the entire textile sector, from the production level to the commercial European level. In 1965, he patented an item for interior decoration; a bayonet hinge which, when applied to nine panels of different sizes, allows for as many as ten thousand compositions.
In '68, he invented a sleep-inducing device with the patent name of Facilsonno (Easysleep), which works by emitting sounds at an extremely low volume and gradually further and further apart from one another, creating a state of relaxation that allows for sleep.
In '76, he created an international language of numbers that consists of translating the letters into numbers to obtain a new alphabet (for example the italian words: terra (earth), cielo (sky), mare (sea), would translate into 18 5 16 16 1, 3 8 5 10 13, 11 1 16 5), valid for all the languages in the world, and therefore a single international language.
In the '60s, he began to make art and, after various works of a small dimension in wood and iron, he made his first sculpture in sheet steel cut with a blow torch: "I tre Arlecchini" (The Three Harlequins), dated 1966. It is three profiles of two and a half meters in height in which the quest for movement challenges the static nature of the material.
During these years, he participated in various collective exhibitions in Italy and other countries. In '74 he achieved one of his goals with a solo exhibition at the Galleria Santa Croce in Florence, inspiring the interest of such important critics as Tommaso Paloscia, Marcello Venturoli, Giuseppe Marchiori, Raffaele De Grada, Antonio Gervasio and Paolo Levi.
A year later, he showed his works in another solo exhibition at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Punta Ala, a very famous tuscan port, and on this occasion, he created sculptures portraying show business personalities, Roger Moore, Luciano Salce, Ugo Tognazzi and Monica Vitti.
From '75 to '80, he was the proprietor of three galleries; Galleria Senato in Milan, Galleria Masaccio in Florence, and Galleria 19 in Punta Ala. This experience brought him into closer contact with artists and gave him a stimulating environment in which to develop his own artistic career.
In 1978, he went to Mexico to present a solo show at the Reloj Tower in Abraham Lincoln Park in Chapultepec (Mexico city), a show sponsored by the Mexico-Italy Cultural Centre in Mexico City.
In 1980, he went to Poland where he met the director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Professor Stanislaw Lorentz, who showed great appreciation for his art and requested a piece for the museum. On this occasion, the National Museum of Krakow also requested a sculpture.
He had several solo exhibitions in Germany and created a sculpture for the Region of Baden Wuttenberg. He came to the attention of a German publishing house, Kinders Verlag, which included his work "L'Uomo ha molte facce" (The Man of Many Faces) in the first volume of their encyclopedia, together with an excerpt on Gaugin and Durer.
The first important gesture of recognition in Italy came with the art award "Le Muse", which he received at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence in May of '79, together with Zichichi who was awarded the prize for science, and Mario Luzi, who was awarded the prize for poetry.
In his artistic quest, he experimented new techniques, creating negative forms in which the image is seen in the void surrounded by the material. He did some etchings on silver as a commission for the Banca Toscana, he did some reproductions in a brass fusion, some monotypes with a wooden mould, and his first jewelry sculptures in gold and precious stones. These led to the commission by De Beers of London for the design of a piece of diamond jewelry.
In '83, he was commissioned by the Compagnia del Paiolo of Florence, of which he is a member, to create the altar and ambone in the chapel built in homage to Michelangelo in the native city of the great artist, Caprese Michelangelo. The subject of the sculpture, which is entitled "Un Paese Racconta" (A City Tells its Story), is the history of an ancient suffering, all too real even today, of mothers praying and awaiting the return of sons from the war.
Again in 1983, he received a commission to create a Pegasus (symbol of the Region of Tuscany) in steel, for the gardens at Florence's Regional headquarters. This work has not yet had an official inauguration due to the succession of new presidents for the Region of Tuscany.
In 1984, a permanent exhibition of large sculptures was inaugurated in the Acquasanta Park in Chianciano Terme (Siena), and with him appeared other famous artists such as Emilio Greco, and Giacomo Manzù. Pazzagli's works can still be seen today in the park.
The following summer, a seven-metre high sculpture entitled "Rapporto Musicale tra Vento e Mare" (Musical Rapport Between Wind And Sea) was erected in the piazza of the Port of Punta Ala, receiving the approval of various critics, and the journalist, Dario di Gravio, who describes this event in an "Il Tempo" newspaper article as recognition for Pazzagli's tenacity and boundless imagination.
During the same period, he was commissioned by the Performing Arts Authority in Rome to design the award given for the best film sound track. This has been awarded in the Salone delle Feste in Sanremo to Ennio Morricone and other illustrious composers.
"Il Grillo Parlante" (The Talking Cricket) of 1987 was the first sculpture with which he experimented with coloured plexiglas to fill the voids in the steel sheeting. This work was erected at Terme di Petriolo and can be seen from the Siena-Grosseto highway. The blue, red and green of the plexiglas inserts blend with the golden reflections typical of his specially-coated steel sculptures.
In 1980, the Municipality of Castiglione della Pescaia, the Province of Grosseto, the Region of Tuscany, the Banca Toscana, the Promoala, with the collaboration of the Marina of Punta Ala, sponsored a great solo exhibition in the port, inaugurated by Senator Luciano Bausi.
This show included twelve works of heights from two to six metres and lasted from June to September, receiving more than fifty thousand visitors. Pazzagli attracted a lot of attention from the critics, opening up, among other things, a heated diatribe between supporters and denigrators.
In '90, Florence's Galleria Mentana organized a solo show of his works and exhibited them at the Art Fair of Bologna during the following two years. In 1990, he designed the San Giuseppe award of Florence, a homage to "L'Uomo Dalla Civiltà Contadina All'Era Del Computer" (Man from rustic civilization to the computer era) awarded to such designers as Giorgio Armani and the actress Elena Sofia Ricci.

His artistic output was then reduced to a minimum up until halfway through '94, when he returned to his artistic activity with a renewed passion, again approaching his crude steel, in the constant quest to bring it to life with the humanity and coherence gained through years of experience.
His new sculptures were based on his work with multiple layers which intersect and superimpose themselves on each other.
In 1995, a show organized by the Municipality of Montevarchi in Chiostro di Cennano, the site of the Paleontological Museum, proposed both older and newer works showing all of his artistic career on a large scale: "Thirty Years of Sculpture". The symbolic work of this exhibition, the sculpture "Gran Concerto" (The Big Concert) (820 by 530 cm.) was erected in a green area at the entrance to the city. 
In 1997, the Municipality of Apricale mounted an exhibition of Pazzagli's large sculptures in the historical centre of this atmospheric medieval town on the Ligurian coast.
On this occasion, the sculpture "Libro" (Book) was erected on the main access road to the town. A request is being made to have this 'book' entered into the Guiness Book of Records as the heaviest book in the world (656 kilos).
The exhibition of environmental art was proposed again in the summer of 1998, along the streets, in the squares, and on the seaboard of Castiglione della Pescaia. Here, the most significant pieces in Pazzagli's artistic career were shown together with his most recent works.
From April to December 1999 he had a very interesting land art exhibition in the center of Arezzo: seventeen big scultures erected in the main streets of this medieval town.

During these years the idea of creating an art park was already in the Enzo Pazzagli mind; in 1990 a permanent exposition, was in the garden of his house in Settignano (FI) but only in 2001 he found a land in Rovezzano (FI) ( sq.m.. 23900) really plan for his project. He has begun so the jobs leaving other his activities entirely to devote to this big enterprise; in three years and a half he has changed a waste field in an immense lawn, in which he has planted 300 cypresses, which forms a living sculpture visible from the sky. In special events a Mongolfiera is at disposal of the visitors to allow a privileged view.
The park is in an optimum position thanks to the very beautiful surrounding view formed by those hills which the ancient Medici family preferred for their villas, the Arno river, in this point particularly wide to form a small lake, is at the South side; but above all the closeness to the center of Florence makes the park a big interest shop window for contemporary art.
150 works of several dimensions era visible also at night thanks to a careful lighting system. There are permanent works of other artists as Marcello Guasti and Sauro Cavallini; temporary shows of international artists are periodically prepared and a variety of events not only concerning to the world of art but also the sport, to the culture,  the botany. The Tuscan Region dedicates him in 2005 a solo exhibition in the Panciatichi Palace in Florence