My artistic path has always been complex and full of obstacles, most of the time.
I acted counter to the full-flagged dictatorship of conceptual art, in the seventies, my production was extremely figurative. Against the reduction of art to a mere linguistic exercise, devoid of content, my research always offered a balanced set of concept and formal language. I oppose the communicative warmth of my manual skills to the arrogance of the cold digital and technological language having an end in itself.
Born in Apricena (Foggia - Italy) in 1954, I live and work in Bari. I teach painting disciplines at the state artistic high-school “De Nittis – Pascali” in Bari. I have organized several solo exhibitions and participated in numerous collective exhibitions, to name but a few:
1981
Solo exhibition: "Jack of Clubs" art gallery - Bari
1984
Solo exhibition: "Jack of Clubs" art gallery - Bari
"Apulian Laboratory" - Ripe S. Ginesio curated by M. Conenna ed E. Crispolti.
1985
"A newest generation" - Fortezza Medicea (Siena) curated by E. Crispolti.
1986
"XI Art Quadrennial" - Roma
1987
Solo exhibition at Galleria "La Cooperativa" - Bari
1988
"PDO Apulians" Associazione culturale Il Canovaccio - Roma
1990
"A Room with a View" - "Corso d’opera" gallery - Bari
1995
"St. John night" Ostuni – curated by Zelig
1997
"Former St. Augustin Convent" – Local Authority for Art and Archeology Matera
1998
"Artists at a window" Ostuni – curated by Zelig
1999
"The eight of us" Swabian Castle - Barletta
2000
"Art en-counter" - Visual Art Laboratory (Foggia)
2001
"Scraps" curated by Domenico Potenza (Apricena)
2002
"Mariae" curated by Lia De Venere - Capurso (Bari)
"the origin and its end" – solo exhibition - Galleria "Luigi di Sarro" - Rome
"From the plant to the banquet" - curated by Local Authority for Art and Archeology Bari
Castel del Monte – Copertino Castle
"Interludes (works of the transition)" curated by Vito Intini Kusthalle (Noci)
2003
"Throwing a thought at you" - solo exhibition – Barletta Castle
2005
"Streetcar - Art" - Museo Civico - curated by L. Rea - Foggia
"Medea at Arpi road"- Banca del Monte - curated by F. De Martino and B. La Bianca Foggia
"Between-papers" - Museo Civico - curated by L. Rea - Foggia
2007
"Landscapes and still lives" – solo exhibition - "BLUorG" Gallery - Bari
"Nigro" - Bluorg Gallery - Bari
2008
"Section ad Artem" – Caserta Palace - Caserta
2009
"Kontraste" - Bruckmul – Munich (Bavaria Germany)
"Recommendable" - BLUorG Gallery - curated by Giustina Coda - Bari
2010
"Ex-voto " - Spazio Stelle d’Italia - curated by S. Caramia. Taranto.
"Ex-voto" - Open Space Gallery - curated by S. Caramia. Catanzaro.
"Lib(e)rArte" - Galleria Civica cont., Torrione Angioino - curated by L. Naglieri. Bitonto.
"Extrabilia" - Borgo antico - curated by Maria Vinella - Polignano a Mare (Ba).
"Strictly Books"- Banca del Monte Trust - curated by L. Rea Foggia.
"Ground and Salt" - Masseria Boezio - curated by G. Menolascina Ostuni (Br).
"Eclectica" - Carovigno Castle - curated by A. Marino Carovigno (Br).
Collective exhibition at ArteOra Gallery, Foggia. Curated by Gigliola Fania.
2011
"Between papers" curated by L. Rea, Banca del Monte Trust, Foggia.
"Kontraste 2" Bayer-Wech Gallery – Munich (Bavaria – Germany) collective exhibition.
"Beyond the Sacred" curated by Museo Nuova Era, Chiesa del Gesù, Bari
"Venice Biennale - Nervi Torino pavilion" curated by V. Sgarbi, Torino.
"De Nittis Sixth Biennial Art exhibition" – Barletta Castle
2012
"Fist Biennial Art Exhibition" at Palazzo della Cultura - Noicattaro, Bari.
2013
Collective exhibition at Cinema Farnese Roma
Collective exhibition at Il Gabbiano Gallery - La Spezia.
2014
Collective exhibition "Light", at Palazzo Mongiò dell’elefante, Galatina.
Collective exhibition at "Il gioco" Trullo Lamorgese, Alezio.
Collective exhibition at Atelier Spezzacatene, "Consòlo meridionale", Bari.
2015
Two-artist exhibition "Separated by the sea", Dammusi Ishtar, Pantelleria.
2016
Solo exhibition Parkers Hotel, Napoli.
Collective exhibition Dammusi Ishtar, Pantelleria