Biography
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:
"Apulian Laboratory" - Ripe S. Ginesio curated by M. Conenna ed E. Crispolti.
"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)
"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
"Nigro" - Bluorg Gallery - Bari
"Recommendable" - BLUorG Gallery - curated by Giustina Coda - Bari
"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.
"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
Collective exhibition at Il Gabbiano Gallery - La Spezia.
Collective exhibition at "Il gioco" Trullo Lamorgese, Alezio.
Collective exhibition at Atelier Spezzacatene, "Consòlo meridionale", Bari.
Collective exhibition Dammusi Ishtar, Pantelleria