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Giulia Previtali

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Birthplace: Monza
Giulia Previtali was born in Monza, 1993.  She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 2018 and a year later starts teaching in schools. In 2014 Previtali won the “26 reasons to make art” Award organized by Vittorio Gucci which led to her first exhibition in Via Tortona – Milan, linked to the prestigious annual Design event, the Milan furniture fair.  She then won two more art prizes and was called to exhibit at the Regione Palace in Milan. In 2015 she met the art critic and curator Giorgio Grasso whom she started to appear in collective exhibitions in the Italian territory. Previtali was a guest artist at the 2017 Biennale in Venice – Armenian...

Stefano Musso

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Birthplace: Noto (SR)
Stefano Musso was born in 1991 in Noto (SR) – Sicily. After graduating from the state art institute, he decided to deepen his knowledge in the pictorial field, attending the detached section of the academy of fine arts Lorenzo Da Viterbo, graduating as a painter in 2014. At the same time, he participated in several artistic events and competitions in many cities of Italy, often ranking among the finalists. He received public acclaim for his decisive, evolved and original style, despite his young age. In 2015 he moved to Rome for a master course in graphics and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 2017.  He paints the man’s inner condition and his energies, as nature...

Salvo Messina

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Birthplace: Catania
Salvo Messina was born in Catania – Sicily in 1953. He took up the artistic career at a young age and in 1973 he moved to the city of Milan to study at the prestigious European Design Institute where he met some of the most renowned designers of Italy. In those years he started to work as a comic illustrator and advertising creator. Back in Catania he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, where he eventually became a professor. Art is still his great passion and main occupation. Given the multiplicity of his interests and competences he has the opportunity to teach a variety of subjects, from  decoration to design. The cultural aspect of his training and education brought him...

Lino Baldassa

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Birthplace: Chieri (Torino)
Lino Baldassa in art “Balì” was born in Chieri (To) on 19 May 1966. His first paintings in 1995 portrayed landscapes and seascapes. For Lino Baldassa painting has always been a moment of life and passion. Pure expression of what you want to convey. It offers suggestive views … Always engaged in stylistic research and new techniques. The stylistic research envelops and involves, its colors and its light are the testimony of its language. Time to paint passes inexorably… The colors on a canvas are the full expression of life past, present and future, which slide on it without ever leaving.

Rosy Carletti

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Birthplace: Thalwil (Svizzera)
Rosy Carletti was born in Switzerland on April 20, 1959.Her photographic passion, cultivated since she was a girl, becomes study, research and experimentation after the discovery in a wood of a Praktica, an old analogue camera.A sign, a turning point.She begins a study path associated with an unlimited curiosity towards the world and an introspection that will lead her to analyze the emotional flow through body language.She loves colors as much as black and white, as well as the contrast between portrait and setting.Her husband set up a studio for her where she creates hats, crowns, clothes and everything she could ever need for her photographic projects.Her eyes look for hidden wonders, her lens captures unusual solutions, her photos of...

Rosanna Miccolis

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Birthplace: Bari
Rosanna Miccolis was born in Putignano (Italy). Her first approach to paint took place at the age of 20 years, with a huge interest in forms and colors, and in 2000, thanks to her great devotion and deep passion for the art, she started to focus on figurative art in a particular way to the Flemish technique. During the last few years, her necessity to propose multifaceted vision of art, made it necessary to experiment new media such as: sculpture, paper mache etc… She has performed in several exhibitions such as: “Artiste de Montmartre”, “Premio arte laguna, Venice”, “Biennale internazionale di Palermo” and “Biennale internazionale del Lazio” obtaining good public and critical acclaim. Most of her works has been reviewed...

Daniela Albegiani

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Birthplace: Palermo
Daniela Albegiani was born in Palermo – Sicily – in 1969, she studied at the art school in Palermo and later specialised in painting and glass decorating. Her work is driven by a passion for the arts and she has experimented many techniques. In fact she has used watercolours mixed with inks, oils and acrylics. A more particular material application on her latest canvases is papier-machè, with which she realises beautiful subjects, such as butterflies, in relief. Every Miss Butterfly has painted wings and takes its inspiration from nature, that the artist studies carefully, and represents love and liberty. Albegiani says she loves butterflies for they give her joy and because they are elegant and light; they look fragile, though...

Roberto Bellucci

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Birthplace: Roma
I was born in Rome on 02-04-1959 At the age of 5 I moved to Africa (Somalia Mogadishu) with the family and stayed there until the age of 10. The stay in Africa has deeply marked my life on the artistic profile. Uncommon human relationships, the harshness of life, the strong sun, the pungent smells have dug deep furrows in my soul. Upon returning to Italy, I went to live in Naples. This was a meaningful experience, and also here with a strong sun. To complete the 5th grade they enrolled me in the Don Bosco state school in Portici. Here at my first approach with my Italian (Neapolitan) peers and here I convinced myself that I could not understand...

Ivana Storto

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Birthplace: Eraclea (Venezia)
Ivana Storto was born in 1938 in the province of Venice and lives now in Caserta. She has always been interested in painting since she was a young girl. She makes her debut on the exhibition scene by presenting all her works since 2009.
After an initial training and a study phase with a naive imprint, the artist begins to direct her center of gravity towards the achievement of a personal stylistic evidence. If Ivana Storto’s early works were a kind of experience of the outward appearance of the surrounding world, the current ones support an emotional journey into the world of colors and shapes, reflected and rendered by free and playful geometries recalling a fairytale. Ivana’s aim is far from...

Laura Muolo

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Birthplace: Milan
Laura Muolo was born in Milan in 1975. After completing her studies she moved to Rimini where she still lives and works. She has always been passionate about drawing, but only since 2013 she has made it her daily task, letting her express uncontrollable feelings. She dedicates herself primarily to the hyper-realistic portraits, with a preference for older people, represented with graphite technique or pastels; she also makes use of oil painting, which she masters in a unique manner. She loves the figurative genre and realism, but plays with the surrealism and metaphysical art. She had a solo exhibition in October 2019 in Punta Marina – Ravenna and participated in numerous collective exhibitions at a national and international level (Milan,...

Elsa Ventura Migliorini

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Birthplace: Genova
She was born in Genoa in 1946. Although she loved drawing from an early age, only in adulthood she was able to satisfy the strong desire to devote herself to painting. He attended the scientific high school. He worked as an advertising graphic designer in a Genoese studio learning from Maestro Carlo Bracci. Then full-time mom, after the maturity of the children she started painting. Self-taught, but he never stopped studying, perfecting himself through art books on the various painting techniques, following the teachings on the web of world-renowned artists, who stimulated his research, oriented towards realism and all hyperrealism. His works, mainly in oil, are described for the minuteness of the details shown on the canvas through a careful...

Angela Anzalone

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Birthplace: San Cono (Catania)
Angela Anzalone was born in San Cono, a small town in the province of Catania, in 1962. She soon felt fascinated by colors and started to paint at 12, unveiling a great passion for the arts. She attended the art institute of Caltagirone, acquiring various techniques; she prefers to use acrylic colors but also works with oil, watercolors and graphite. Anzalone portrays nature, animals and “the wonders of life”, using her own definition for the subjects that captures her attention. She focuses on the triggering of positive emotions through her art, mainly using the colors dictated by her soul. She is guided by love and kindness and such gentle flow is perceived in her paintings.

Luisa Riceci

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Birthplace: Ravenna
Luisa Riceci was born in Ravenna on 9 October 1962, graduated from a professional school in Ravenna, always passionate about drawing and everything that represents art, his artistic career began as a self-taught artist from some years, for family reasons. She uses different techniques: oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolor; even if she prefers the pastel because she loves to feel the color under his fingers like wanting to get inside the work. His pictorial language is fed by the deepest and most secret feelings and emotions where the true part of the artist is characterized by a constant mental, social and artistic commitment. The artist’s vision is a narrative path, full of reflections on various topics, represented by the man...

Letizia Valenti

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Birthplace: Mistretta (Me)
Letizia Valenti was born in Mistretta, a small city near Messina. She has always loved art and after receiving a degree in the pottery art school in Santo Stefano di Camastra (Me), she graduated in the Art School of Palermo. When she finished her studies she became a teacher, teaching with passion for many years. She now lives in Alcamo (TP). What she says of herself: I have painted for years just for the sake of doing it expressing myself. I have tested out different techniques and materials, silent forms in order to highlight my intimate world. Afterwards I put on the first exhibitions. The need of energies exchange and the need of giving and having springs and so my...

Letizia Pistoia

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Birthplace: Montepaone (Catanzaro)
Letizia Pistoia was born in Montepaone (Cosenza) in 1950 and lives in Milan since she was 9 year old. After secondary school she attended the professional school for secretary. She worked as a window dresser for a fashion chain. Since she was a kid had a visceral passion for art in all its expression and for this reason she dedicates all her free time to oil painting which is her true passion. She is a self-taught painter used to dream in front of a beautiful landscape,especially by the sea. As a painter, she has successfully participated to various collective exhibitions and many paintings on commission.

Gianna Masoero

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Birthplace: Coazzolo (Asti)
Teresanna Masoero, born in 1955 in Coazzolo a small town in the beautiful province of Asti. Growing up she loved to draw and paint, due to family problems she devoted herself to her family and work. Attending painting courses after work, first with watercolors then acrylics and oil. She loves to portray the female world, emotions and gestures also city landscapes or alleys, if they strike her poetic passion. She has exhibited in several group exhibitions at prestigious sites, Turin, the Mausoleum of the ”Bella Rusin”, Palazzo Birago, Assoc. Arte Città Amica, in Vinovo with Hartem.

Antonio Presutti

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Birthplace: Telese
Thanks to his family Antonio Presutti began his artistic experience at a young age. His older brother, Stefano, who eventually became an art teacher, attended the school of Cerreto, near Benevento, directed by the prominent artist Valente Assenza. Those were the 60s when Antonio attended his first art workshop and he soon gained experience in drawing, painting and ceramics. He later trained and perfectioned his technique in Assenza’s atelier, following the traditional stages for the preparation of the canvases and the mixing of colors. He closely observed his work, sometimes even posing for him and collaborating on his paintings or restoring wooden sculptures. This sort of apprendiceship started in the late 60s, when his teacher and mentor praised his talent,...

Venera Giuffrida

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Birthplace: Acireale (Catania)
Venera Giuffrida was born in Catania, lives and works in Germany in her artistic studio. Always passionate about art, it has infact become an integral part of her life. In painting she likes to range from figurative to abstract, preferring to paint reflected or overlapping image. She has participated in several exhibitions and received awards and acclaim. In addition, she deals with sculpture, has created several important public works for the municipalities of Catania and Messina.

Anna Di Volo

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Birthplace: Firenze
Anna Di Volo, was born in Florence Italy. She comes from a famous family of painters. Her father opened a factory of fine arts products in Viareggio and Florence. Anna Di Volo’s painting career began in1964, when she was presented by another important painter, Felice Carena. Today Anna Di Volo has a vast curriculum of important Worldwide art events and exhibitions : Basilica of Santa Croce, Art Gallery in Siena, Archeological Museum in Grosseto… in Europe, Japan, USA and South Africa, receiving many awards for her paintings.

Imma Garofalo

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Birthplace: Cassano allo Ionio
Immaculate Garofalo (Imma) was born in Cassano at the Ionian on 1962, she began from elementary school to have a passion for drawing and watercolors. She dedicates to the landscapes, flowers, nature enchanted by the immensity and colors that surround his summer days in the countryside where she spends most of his summer holidays. The passion for art is immense; she continues over time as a self-taught trying to perfect herself and scrutinize beauty in every corner that surrounds her to bring her back to the canvas according to her inner flair. Painting for her is entering an idyllic dimension where everything becomes beautiful, sublime, fascinating, is alien from all that is around, it becomes almost therapeutic to paint after...

Domenica Galtieri

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Birthplace: Bruzzano zeffirio (RC)
Mimma was born in Bruzzano Zeffirio (RC) – Southern Italy.  Her first approach to art was photography and the ancient technique of the Shodo (art of Japanese calligraphy).  She works as a Visual in the fashion industry and attended several Art Schools and courses. Some workshops were held by renowned Italian masters. Her artistic peculiarity lies in the search and transformation of recuperated materials as a an essential concept of time and its flow. Her works have been exhibited in several National Art Festivals and in various locations such as Museums and Libraries.

Davide Neddini

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Birthplace: Roma
Neddini Larrydavid was born in Rome on 1947 and residing in Imola. Born as a self-taught painter, Neddini is a singular but very interesting painter, Neddini deals with adherence and validity in the psychological contents, and a theme all the Mali of our times. He firmly believes in the human values ​​of life by demonstrating them in his painting. Many critics who wrote about him including (Ciampi, Ruggeri Boccaloni, Tomassini Mario Monteverdi, Patrizia Galli) made many collective and personal exhibitions in Italy and in the world Geneva, Madrid, Los Angeles New York San Francisco Tokyo Melburg.

Giorgio Esposito

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Birthplace: Napoli
Giorgio Esposito was born in Naples in 1963, where he currently lives and works. He started drawing with pens, crayons and pencils when he was a child, because he loved reproducing on paper and cards what he saw through his eyes. At the age of 25 he began to paint with watercolors, then he moved on with tempera, acrylic and finally oil colours. He belongs to a little artistic movement that can be considered the ideal continuation of the “School of Posillipo”. He is totally connected with nature, thus prefers to portray landscapes, full of colors and light, that he depicts on canvases with fascinating chromatic rhythms. He is currently experimenting a new contemporary genre, using mixed techiniques on different...

Domenico Bernacchi

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Birthplace: Abbiategrasso (Milano)
Domenico Bernacci, was born in 1957.About 35 years ago he walked into a paint factory, bought some colours and started painting. Totally, self-taught he now realizes he can’t live without it. Looking at other painter’s works and stealing their “secrets” he has learnt more than in books. He loves and practices both Figurative and Abstract art he also uses the action painting technique. He adores still-life, often using objects found in the local market. He hopes that one day someone will remain enraptured by emotions looking at his work. He affirms one thing for certain : The worst defeat is in not trying.

Stefano Bianchi

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Birthplace: Ravenna
Stefano Bianchi was born in 1966 in Ravenna, where he currently lives. The city, culturally rich and historically important, greatly influenced his artistic sensibility. He attended the conservatory at the age of seven, studying music, piano and composition. He began painting at the age of thirty as a self-taught artist. The music experience transpires in his works, freely and openly communicating rhythms and melodies, which reflect in colourful abstract shapes. The thickness of the paint colour, a result of the palette knife technique, makes his artworks almost three-dimensional. Over a 20 year career, his paintings evolved, from the creation of colorful, chaotic works of strong effect to the minimalist and clean approach where he manages to concentrate in a few...

Marj Luana Celeste

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Birthplace: Tricase (Lecce)
Marj Luana Celeste was born in 1974 and currently lives in Corsano in the province of Lecce. Inspired by her artist mother, she has been passionate about art since childhood. She obtained a diploma at Artistic High school in the architecture section and later graduated as a restoration technician, also specializing in the restoration of the ‘Frescos’. In 2015, she again took up her brushes with a new found artistic spirit. Inspired in oil painting, material technique and intense colours, alternates with watercolor painting, with a veiled softness of tones. Using dreams, introspection of her soul, love and passion, nature and flowers as themes, with the aim of creating an empathic link between her world and the observer. Her art...

Vincenzo Tesone

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Birthplace: Villaricca (Napoli)
He was born in VILLARICCA north of NAPLES, where he currently resides. Eclectic painter of self-taught education, he has been on the artistic scene since 1985. Abstract and figurative is his style, but he likes also experimenting with so many techniques He has participated to numerous collective and solo exhibitions and he has won awards, and deserved acknowledgments of audience and criticism. Numerous critics have written about him.

Gerardo La Porta

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Birthplace: Eboli
Gerardo La Porta, aka “Gi_laPorta”, was born in 1966 in Eboli (SA) ITALY. at his youth age of nine, in a School Competition he was already awarded. Despite the different address training, studying hidden from parents, everything that concerns the art. With his neighbor friend started sharing his passion for art and studying the various painting techniques together. He is very passionate for the artists of the Renaissance and the ‘900, feeds much interest in Contemporary Artists, for the detail of the expression. In the beginning he was painting a lot during the breaktime, start to refined the technique of oil, alternating with acrylics and watercolor, also with his friend artist helps. Everything start to change after traveling and working...

Dany Preyer

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Birthplace: Innsbruck (Austria)
Dany Preyer was born in Innsbruck – Austria, in 1965. She moved to Italy in 1983 and attended the art school in Ravenna. The artist has become famous producing ceramic works and experimenting with Graphic design. She has a background as world traveler for 10 years. From 2010 she has partecipated in several art exhibitions in many Italian art cities: Milan, Venice, Ferrara, San Marino, Ravenna; she was also treated as a renowned artist in art documentaries on Sky Tv. Fundamental are her exhibitions in the internetional Biennale of Venice (2017 Biennale Armenian Pavilion, 2018 Biennale Architecture Venice, 2019 Biennale Armenian Pavilion).

Diana Guerriero

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Birthplace: Avellino
Diana Guerriero, from Avellino, after technical studies has had various experiences in the sector and currently works for a private company carrying out administrative functions. Always passionate about art, she has chosen to express herself with both painting and writing. He paints in oil, by signing D’ics, the canvases have a naive connotation. He writes poems, tales and tales, with an identical immediacy aimed at stimulating the reader’s imagination and pushing him to go further, beyond seeing, beyond hearing, not surprisingly his September 2016 staff had the title “Beyond the edge”. In 2017 he published a fairytale book entitled “Tales” and on the cover there is one of his paintings. He has a laboratory where he spends his free time...

Antonio Sgarbossa

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Birthplace: Fontaniva
Antonio Sgarbossa was born in Fontaniva, near Venice, in 1945. At the age of 11 his parents directed him towards an artistic career through apprenticeship in a local ceramic laboratory. There he mastered the use of paintbrushes by decorating ceramics and later on he discovered the oil paint, that led him to participate in several collective exhibitions in Italy. In 1971 he moved to Switzerland where he met with experienced swiss painters who introduced him to the academic portrait tradition. In 1977, back in Fontaniva, he opened a ceramic laboratory and started modelling sculptures. During the eighties he perfectioned his abilities and techniques and participated in several national and international events. He later partnered with the Rotini art gallery in...

Enrico Capuano

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Birthplace: Napoli
Enrico Capuano is a professional artist who dedicated himself to the arts at a very young age; he focused on drawing, which represents life in straight and precise lines enriched with colors and shapes. He masters oil, watercolor, tempera painting and many other techniques. Over time he has aroused interest and appreciation from companies operating in ceramics, especially Capodimonte Porcelain, where he is currently working as a decorator. He took part in several art exhibitions, gaining the support of many experts and critics. His works are included in several art collections.

Vincenzo Modafferi

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Birthplace: Reggio Calabria
Vincenzo Modafferi, born in Reggio Calabria (1951). Now lives in Renda. He is a retired maths teacher and a self-taught painter. Through collectivity he communicates what he finds in painting and colours. His painting of classical nature is precise in perspectives and the brightness of figures. In his works, he looks for true expression with colours, in order to communicate his point of view. He prefers figurative art to landscapes, using colours to rebuild interest between humanity and environment. He has taken part in collective exhibitions, where critics recognized his sensitiveness and love towards life.

Paride Ranieri

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Birthplace: Milano
Paride Ranieri was born in Milan. Art School in Milan, Contemporary History – University of Milan and University “La Sapienza” of Rome.  He joined the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera – Milan, undertaking painting lessons by Master L. Fabro (1990). Meanwhile he has worked in the architetcural firm of Annio Maria Matteini in Milan. After his graduation Paride has dedicated his talent designing theatre, television and movie settings (USA / Italy). In the decade 1999-2008 he has collaborated with Pirelli tires S.p.A. preparing and monitoring national and international promotional events. In 2003 he joined the group of artists for ” Unexpected Art”, a series of exhibitions and performances held in Milan, Barcelona and New York until 2005. In 2006...

Osvaldo Mascarello

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Birthplace: La Morra (Cn)
Osvaldo Mascarello was born in La Morra (Cuneo) in 1948 where he lives and works. Growing up always fond of drawing and painting, he developed a youthful passion in pencil and charcoal techniques. Then moving onto watercolors and oil painting, and learning the artistic techniques from Florentine painter and portraitist Giannina Tesi, he acquired a new passion with a deeper dimension for art. As part of a spontaneous group of painters from La Morra, Osvaldo took advantage of the summer holiday period, to organize and participate in exhibitions of their collections in the areas of Barolo and Alba. Osvaldo’s primary occupation led him to work abroad, often visiting many countries for long periods of time, from which has captured images...

Lisandro Ramacciotti

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Birthplace: Viareggio
Lisandro Ramacciotti was born in 1950 in Viareggio where to this day he lives and works. He started painting during the seventies, exposing his works both in Italy and abroad. You can find his paintings in private collections and art museums. Important exhibitions of his career are those held in historical palaces of Venice, Rome, Pietrasanta, Viareggio and Lucca. Meaningful is also his solo exhibition in Paris in 2009. Estimated art critics have written about his works highlighting his relevant artistic experience.

Andrea Pietro Petralia

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Birthplace: Catania
Andrea Pietro Petralia was born in Catania in 1951. At school he was known as “the artist” for his versatility and great passion towards the arts. There he learnt how to draw and paint. He also dedicated himself to the creation of fine clay sculptures, representing the Christmas nativity scene. Later on he attended professional art courses in ceramics, poster design and stained glass crafting. A remarkable example of his stained glass artworks can be admired at the Lentini Church near Catania – Sicily. At the age of 17 he moved to Paris where along with other street painters he experienced a deep connection with the French artistic heritage. Two years later he returned to Italy to continue his studies...

Flora Favale

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Birthplace: Gioia del Colle (Ba)
Flora Favale was born in Gioia del Colle, in the southern province of Bari. She lives in Milan since 1962. She attended prestigious art courses and in 1970 she obtained the diploma in ceramics and painting at the Cimabue Academy. In the 80s she perfected the technique of watercolor under Anna Pavesi’s guide, approaching the top watery effect. She has participated in individual and group exhibitions with great success.

Monica Zambon

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Birthplace: Settimo Torinese
Monica Zambon was born in Settimo Torinese (TO). She attended art school and partecipated in group exibitions in many italian towns. She has held solo exibitions in Arma di Taggia, Birdighera, Ventimiglia, Genoa, Turin, loano, Reggio Eilia, Sanremo. She won a lot of prizes in national and international painting competitions. Her painting touches the strings of metaphisics and surrealism. The dream is an essential part of Human existence. The Force of the unconscious is feed, it breaks the chains of rationality and comes to the surface.

Maria Bonaduce

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Birthplace: Terlizzi (Ba)
Maria Bonaduce was born in Terlizzi, near Bari – Puglia, in 1955, where she currently lives and works; she graduated in art studies in 1973. She exhibited in Italy and abroad in many countries (Canada, USA, Mexico, UAE, France, UK, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania), being granted a permanency in some of the most important collections of the Italian museums. She is specialized in portraits and landscapes, though in these last years she dedicates to great public and religious works. She loves the watercolour technique and has had a particular sensibility for childhood works, collaborating in the past with the artist Bruno Munari and having some artworks located in the Gianni Rodari Museum. Maria Bonaduce co founded the -ADSUM contemporary art-...

Francesca Vena

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Birthplace: Cosenza
Francesca Vena was born in Cosenza, city in southem Italy, where she lives and practices the profession of painter. From an early Age, her predisposition towards the arte was innate in her and She was encouraged by her parents ti partecipate in varios event Sel-tought artist ( although not following accademie studios) She had the opportunità ti deepen his knowledge at leasing master’s workshops. Diring her career She partecipated in various National and International events , attracting interrato from the news She practices her profession by providing many paiting courses, especially for childten , adult and disable persons. Founder of the Isabella d ‘ Aragona cultural and artistic association , promoting art throughaut the National territory

Vincenzo Allevato

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Birthplace: San Giovanni in fiore (Cosenza)
Born in San Giovanni in Fiore. He has participated in numerous national and foreign exhibitions receiving several awards and criticisms as the:“Il Campidoglio D’Oro” received by “Internazionale Burckhardt Academie” of Roma: “For his skills as a painter with a suggestive religious and mystical theme, where the chromatic reason imposes singular personality “.Dott. A. Tommaso Prete; “Premio Oscar della Cultura 2001” Firenze; “Premio Antiqua Florentia” with the title “Arciere dell’arte” Firenze; “Lupa Capitolina” Palazzo Barberini Roma; “Forum Interart” Palazzo Barberini Roma; “Premio Arte 92” Milano; “Premio Italia luci e colori”; “Premio Rendano” Cosenza; “Premio S. Severina” Crotone; he also set up the following solo and group exhibitions: “Campidoglio” Roma; “Collettiva Vigna Clara” Roma; “Abbazia florense” S. Giovanni in Fiore; “Sidi Slim”,...

GF-Art

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Birthplace: Andria
GF-Art is a creative duo by Giovanni Casamassima and Francesca Mansi. The essence of beauty is the goal of their constant, tireless and meticulous research. The couple’s artistic career began in 1990 at the workshop of the artist Carmine Conversano. As it happened in the Renaissance art workshops, Giovanni and Francesca had the opportunity to acquire the secrets of painting and the importance of visual research since, as they declare, “in order to learn painting you must learn to observe”. They have deepened their knowledge through the contemplation of the “great masters” of the past and the great painters of the present; their work has also been influenced by the teaching of Ciro Palumbo and Paolo Tagliaferro. Today Giovanni and...

Maila Stolfi

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Birthplace: Vernio (Prato)
Maila was born in Prato in 1958 where she lives and works. Here she attended the Leonardo da Vinci institute and studied painting and engraving under the guidance of the master Piero Caverni. Attracted by a fascination for ancient times, Maila makes the past the leitmotiv of her works; her expressive language is autobiographical and her paintings evoke places and objects of memory. Her canvases, rich in emotional content and disruptive force, tell a world in tune with our times: a world suspended between past and present that combines reality with ideal. Curious and imaginative painter, Maila has established herself in the context of contemporary Tuscan and national art since 2014, starting to participate in numerous exhibitions and obtaining prestigious...

Giovanna Morano

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Birthplace: S. Chirico Raparo (Potenza)
Giovanna Morano was born in the province of Potenza, lives in Lavena Ponte Tresa (Varese) where she worked as a teacher. Since 2016, as soon as she retired, she has given vent to her passion by dedicating a lot of time to the realization of her paintings experimenting the techniques and rules of realistic painting. Giovanna loves to paint especially portraits in oil and wanted to start with the people she loved most which represent indelible emotional memories for her: love, tenderness, joys, hopes and happiness. She participated in 2018 in a collective in the municipality of residence and in various personal in some municipalities in the province of Potenza. She participated in the group exhibition “Art is shown” held...

Maria Teresa Giunta

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Birthplace: Castroreale (Messina)
Maria Teresa Giunta, was born in Castroreale (Me) in 1963, in 1996 she moved to Milazzo, where she is still. She lives and dedicates herself full time to painting. Artist of clear impressionist language with particular reference to nature and the Mediterranean landscape. Her large table scans in unison infinite naturalistic notes, embedding in the canvas, wonderful views of his beloved land: Sicily, which lends itself pictorially to be represented in the work. Present with her works in numerous collective art exhibitions and personal exhibitions receiving wide acclaim from specialized critics, as well as various prizes and awards for her undisputed artistic talent.

Giuseppe Sublime

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Birthplace: Palermo
Giuseppe Sublime, painter, writer, graphic designer and teacher of painting and art history. He was born in Palermo, in 1953. He trained in the Art Institute in his town. His painting, starting from metaphisics, touched various artistic expressions such as surrealism and hyperrealism; but he often works even in the figurative. He has parteciped in some personal exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad, winning numerous prizes and certificates. His painting are exibited in private collections and in the Municipality of Rome.

Elio Picariello

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Birthplace: Montefredane (Avellino)
Elio Picariello was born on July 29, 1961 in Montefredane (Av) From an early age he was fascinated by colors so that he attended the study of the master Mario Barra where he had the first approaches with painting. The first brush strokes date back to his tender childhood. he could only seem like a child who enjoyed painting the canvas, but in reality an artist was slowly being born. After completing his studies with the master Barra, he began his studies at the artistic high school of Avellino where in addition to painting he also discovered the art of ceramics. over the years his brush strokes become more and more interesting, decisive and full of meaning. .to most he...

Rosa Benato

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Birthplace: Quero (Biella)
Rosa Benato, a figurative painter and hyper- realistic portraitist. Born in 1958, she currently lives in Borgomanero (Novara). She has always had a strong sense of proportion as a child. She painted and sold several works in the eighties. It was only a few years later that she was able to cultivate her passion with an increasingly satisfactory result. Considering that she is self-taught the results go beyond any dream. Today, she participates in exhibitions both personal and collective, with awards that certify her skills. She has reached her goal fulfilling her childhood dream.

Salvatore Borzì

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Birthplace: Paternò (Catania)
Salvatore Borzì
 (Paternò, 1961) is a contemporary italian architect and artist. He graduated in the Art High School of Catania, then he continued his architectural studies in Reggio Calabria, where with his experimental thesis on the use of color in the urban landscape he got his degree. This was an important turning point for the artist to develop the “chromatic factor” in the visual perception of the forms.
His artistic production, based on his training, is therefore constantly crossed by processes that belong to both the sphere of “designing” and the one of “painting”. His works are based on the study of the connections and the observations of the “relationship space” between the elements. The aim is to give meaning and...

Antonio Cariola

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Birthplace: Piedimonte Etneo (Catania)
Antonio Cariola was born in Piedimonte Etneo (CT) in 1971. In 1988 he graduated as a Master of Art in The Metals and Goldsmiths section. His passion is oil painting and 1991 he decided to attend Maestro Carnabuci’s private school of painting in Taormina (ME). In 1998 he graduated in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania. Initially he was born and trained as an “easel” artist, making exhibitions in the Catania hinterland. His reference artists are Van Gogh, Cèzanne and Matisse. Since 2010 he has abandoned “traditional” painting, experimenting with new linguages. The pictorial surfaces are “dismembered”, “distorted”. The forms no longer recognizable. His works become informal, material, gestural. The reference artists are Rothko, Pollock, Vedova, Kline.

Luca Meroni

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Birthplace: Seregno
Luca Meroni Born in Seregno in 1976, lives and works in Nibionno in the province of Lecco. In 1994 he went to “Papa Ratti” art school in Desio and in 1998 he graduated in painting at “Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera” in Milan. Since he was little he’s always had a strong love and passion for art, in particular for Figurative art. Over the years he developed his technique focusing on communicate the meaning of life, the emotions of the human being and the complexity of the human soul.  He gained experience in Figurative art starting with the decoration of the baptistery of the church of Tabiago  (province of Lecco)  where he painted scenes from the life of Christ....

Rita Carrodano

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Birthplace: La Spezia
Rita Carrodano, originally from La Spezia, has lived in Piedimonte for many years and works as an art teacher in a public school. She studied art as a young girl and today she is an important figure in the art world. Also a protagonist in art activities and exhibitions. Dedicated to “the Golfo dei Poeti and the Cinque Terre”, a beautiful stretch of land along the Ligurian coast that has influenced her paintings with a sense of intimacy even a poetical viewpoint of the “little things” all in a calibrated contrast. Figurative art, emotional fragments captured by the expert hand of the painter. Soft vanishing colours, balanced contrasts, the importance of drawing a pure essential line. Rita Corrodano is in...

Massimo Lomi

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Birthplace: Livorno
Lomi’s grandfather Giovanni was a famous painter of the “ postmacchiaiolo” period and a great operatic singer. The father was an excellent interpreter of jazz music. With these premises Massimo Lomi was born in 1953. At a young age, he learnt from his grandfather the “flavor” of painting, a very important craft in the period between 1800 and 1900.  Together they visited museums and private collections and the young Massimo learnt to observe. He was described as a creative when, in 1968, he attended the art college in Carrara; there he began to improve his picturesque istinct. In 1972 he organized his first exhibition in Milan, where he was appreciated for his originality. His father Federigo became his first sponsor...

Antonio Russo

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Birthplace: Catania
Antonio Russo was born in Catania – Sicily- in 1979. He is a self-taught artist who discovered his gift on the very first day of Primary school; on that day he produced a fine light and dark contrast on a pencil drawing, with no one teaching him how to do it. At the age of 11 he started to paint with oil colours and at 12 he received an easel for present, by his brother, so that he could paint bigger canvases. He soon started to be commissioned several artworks within his family, friends and acquaintances. In 2010 he studied decorations and Byzantine iconography; there he met a deacon teacher who invited him to a monastery where he experimented original...

Jessica Pintaldi

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Birthplace: Roma
For several years Jessica Pintaldi has been outlining an abstraction that finds its roots in the simplest and most profound form of reality. Astrophysics and Art share the need for investigation and discovery. A black hole is thought to be found in the center of each galaxy. The circle, the sphere, the spiral, the centripetal and centrifugal movements of inner elements are found in many different natural structures. Matter rotates and exists in repeating forms, from the immensely large to the infinitely small. From the beginning of time, man has always been looking for answers about the origin of the world, the universe and all living things. The demiurge artist finds answers by observing the shape of what is around...

Emanuel Palermo

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Birthplace: Catania
Emanuel Palermo was born in Catania in 1949, where he began his art studies and later attended the Accademy of fine arts. In 1970 he went to Paris for a year, gaining a tremendous experience in the relation with professional artists. Returning to Italy he has devoted himself to the research and experimentation of visual arts, from 1973 to the present day. His art is sometimes conceptual and the result of a constant social analysis. Being an artist according to Emanuel Palermo means “to confess the unconscious and to look at the world from innumerable hairline cracks”; to do so he realizes installations and performances, he uses mixed techiniques and recycled materials despite the traditional touch of paint. His work...

Maria Teresa Minneci

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Birthplace: Pompei
Maria Teresa Minneci was born in Pompei, near Naples, in 1947, but she now lives and works in Gerenzago, near Milan. She has always loved drawing and has partaken over the years in many creative projects. She lately decided to concentrate on oil painting. Her artistic style spaces from abstract to figurative; no matter how opposite these two tendencies seem to be, she manifests her complete confidence with both. Her emotions come from within and she uses oil painting to portray them onto canvas. She says about her work: “When I start a new work, I observe the blank canvas. I caress it and, free from all thoughts, I leave space only for the need to paint; the brush in...

Vincenzo Auciello

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Birthplace: Marano (Napoli)
Vincenzo Auciello was born in Marano in 1956. Today he lives and works in Calvizzano, not far from his birth place, on the outskirts of Naples. He is a self-taught artist for he approached oil painting and sketch drawing at a very young age. He soon started to exhibit his artworks in local art galleries, where he attained immediate attention and was rewarded with enthusiastic reviews by art critics. He now feels thankful to the people who encouraged him in this career and offered their advice through the years. He is a mature and talented artist who keeps on painting with joy.

Agostino Viviani

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Birthplace: Ragusa
Agostino Viviani, was born and is currently living in Ragusa, Italy. Passionate about art he began to paint at the age of 18. His first works in oil on canvas mixed figurative art with abstract art in his first phase. In the late ’80s’he tried his hand at creating “polychrome materials”. Today his journey continues with informal painting, with reference to abstract expressionism, giving life to his personal expressive language. He has participated in exhibitions in Italy and also abroad which include: Marina in Arte, Gran Teatro del Barocco, Internazionale Competitions, Horizons, Tribute to Frida, in Rome, in Florence, in Città del Messico.

Davide Scutece

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Birthplace: Ghevelsberg Germany
Davide Scutece, was born in 1974 in Ghevelsberg – Germany, though he lives and works in San Salvo CH – Italy. His experience in Berlin in 2009 on the occasion of the centenary expressionism collective, was significant. He is passionate about painting since childhood, and refined his technique in the workshop of Ennio Minerva, a student of the famous twentieth century painter Renato Guttuso. His very personal style tries, since 1999, to give each emotion a different colour, painting as if it were either the last or the first time. His painting techniques are: oil pigments, watercolor, acrylic and enamels. He exhibited in Vasto, Milan, Avellino, Bologna and Berlin.

Francesco Senise

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Birthplace: Lungro
Lives and works in the town of Lungro in southern Italy, where he was born on the 25th of August 1970. He has dedicated most of his artistic works to his native land by depicting the surrounding environment and colourful landscapes. The “Salinari” paintings, the series he has become most valued for, pay tribute to the salt mines that have ensured the territory of Lungro and its inhabitants prosperity for many centuries. The artist is particularly fond of this theme for, as a child, he was fascinated by the view of some sculptures placed at the school entrance portraying salt miners; their weary aspect struck him profoundly. Maturing as a man and artist, he must have realised the intense fatigue...

Sara Lautizi

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Birthplace: Sant'elpidio a mare
Sara Lautizi ,in art ANAM, was born in 1990 in a rural village of Italy that helped to develop her sensibility. Since childhood she had a strong attraction towards art, colors and painting which ended up with the formation of her unique expression. Emotions, feelings, thoughts and concepts have their own shape, colour and brightness even in nonconformist ways. She completed her study at the Institute of Art in 2008; then she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata where she matures and refines the skill to manifest her deepest unconscious almost to be a collective message. Mythological and divinatory figures along with androgynous bodies seem to emerge as an archetype representation. She has been selected among the...

Leonardo Cuccoli

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Birthplace: Bologna
Leonardo Cuccoli lives in the countryside around Bologna and at the age of 55 he decided to break the mould approaching the world of art, leaving his professional background behind and embracing all those things that truly were the mirror of his soul. “One morning, a deep sense of rejection of the dynamics of everyday life led me to reveal my true self by proposing my artistic thought”. After years spent in the field of corporate communication among art director, copy, graphic design and advertising, he started to promote his own concept of communication through photography. The idea of photography sums up a whole professional life spent learning the technique behind the scenes from all the photographers he met on...

Monica Maffei

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Birthplace: Varese
The art of Monica Maffei  springs from a special sensibility and finds its expression in compositions  characterized by a subtle lyricism.
Tones and understones combine with elegance on the canvas  with a succession of shades and mutual contaminations, leaving vague human forms emerging occasionally.
The artist  masters the canvas with an overlapping of pigments and signs, and, at the same time, reveals and conceals her own subjects, which, in the end, result to be surrounded by a mysterious aura.
The hand of the artist skillfully measures out light and shadow, strong and fading colours, which nearly seem to be washed out, while a well coordinated harmony is springing out from the surface of the painting.
The observer needs to understand the message transpiring from...

Gianfranco Del Bove

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Birthplace: Roma
Gianfranco Del Bove, born in Rome (1956).He met great masters of art, Luigi Montanarini, Sante Monachesi and Sandro Trotti, where his passion for art slowly grew. A pleasure and a desire to bring light, fixing emotion and fantasy on canvas. The technique, the color, the material were all tools used to achieve his goal. Images of Ancient Rome, remained etched in his mind, resurfacing inevitably through his inspiration. The final choice of colours perhaps a legacy of the elements of nature, instincts that often turned to the sphere of Eros and sexuality. Pink, amber, orange, black, olive green and dark blue his favourite colours. Gianfranco has used pencils, pens, markers wax, tempera, products of nature. Passionate putting all his creativity...

Antonio Dionizio

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Birthplace: Apice
Tonino Dionizio was born in Apice, near Benevento, in 1957. After graduating at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples he started to paint with an originally personal technique, using the pen onto a thickly painted canvas and creating a three-dimensional effect thus offering the viewer the sensation of an ancient artistic dimension, when sculptures were the expression of perfection and harmony.

GiuFè

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Birthplace: Alcamo (Trapani)
Giuseppina Ferrara, GiuFè, was born in Alcamo, near Palermo – Sicily, in 1978. She studied graphic design and graduated in scenography at the Academy of fine Arts. She moved to Florence, where she experienced the silversmith work through a period of apprenticeship in a workshop and there she discovered her passion for jewels. She later decided to settle back in Sicily and became a teacher in primary school. In 2009 she founded GiuFè Jewels, a brand which connects all her passions and competences, therefore is a combination of art, didactical work and luxury items. She focused on the organisation of creative and motivational courses for disabled students, where, in cooperation with not disabled ones, they can get over the physical...

Noemi Scottino

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Birthplace: Scicli
Self-taught painter, born in Scicli, province of Ragusa, lives in Caserta. Linked to art and drawing since childhood … In 2001 she met the painter Guccione with whom she found painting, order and cleanliness in making her paintings. Engaged in realistic representation, she deepens the caravagesca technique, painting copies of authors like Caravaggio. He also engages in commissions related to portraits. Fascinated by works by masters such as Picasso, she rediscovers the lines, the unreal forms, so tied to drawing with a pencil. His artistic research combines realism and non-realism, proving that the two forms can coexist until they merge into a set of glazes, shapes and colors.

Giovanni Morgese

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Birthplace: Terlizzi (Ba)
Giovanni Morgese was born in Terlizzi in 1951 and graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari in 1979. During the eighties he researches a symbolic and religious subjects’ painting, which will later reflect in some wooden stick sculptures, representing humanness and spirituality. In 1992 he undertakes iconographic studies and concentrates on the production of contemporary icons. In 2008 he starts using a new material, iron, with which he composes sheet iron sculptures, punctured with symbols. He regularly exhibits in many cities in Italy.