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Item Ships From: Rome
Figure - Original Oil on Cardboard by Antonio Camarca - Mid-20th Century
By Antonio Camarca
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in oil on cardboard, realized by the Italian artist Antonio Camarca (Rome 1920-?).
The state of preservation of the artwork is aged.
With the stam on ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Eden - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova, 60x80 cm.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roman Ruins - Painting attr. to Francis Harding - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman ruins is an original old master artwork realized realized by a follower of the artist Giovanni Paolo Panini and attributed to Francis Harding (1730-1766).
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Includes frame.
The work is a replica of Panini's canvas made around 1740, made known by Ferdinando Arisi in his 1986 monograph (Cat.456) as belonging to the Galleria Taccani in Milan and recently reappeared on the London market...
Category
17th Century Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
A Rich Merchant - Painting by Unknown - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
A rich merchant is an original old master artwork realized in the 18th Century.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas depicting a merchant looking at a coin in his left hand. Provena...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Scenes of Celebration with Musicians - Oil on Canvas - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful pair of painting representing scenes of celebrations with musicians, executed by a Master belonging to the school of Giuseppe Bonito (Neaples...
Category
18th Century Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Roman Landscape oil on canvas with Giltwood Frame
Located in Rome, IT
Amaizing 19' century Roman landscape depicting a part of Villa Borghese with Trinità dei Monti.
With a finely carved gilt wood coeval frame.
Measurements with frame cm 65 x78 wit...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
By Antonio Feltrinelli
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on board
Not signed.
Antonio Feltrinelli...
Category
1930s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Landscape - Oil Paint by Athos Brioschi - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by Athos Brioschi in mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame: 54x44 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Knight - painting - XVII century
Located in Roma, IT
The Knight is an original oil painting on canvas realized during the XVII century by an anonymous artist.
Provenance: Pecci-Blunt collection. Good condition...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Defending Yourself from Friendships - Paint by Alberto Gallerati - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Alberto Gallerati (b. 1945) in 1970s.
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Study of Via Ripetta 32 - Acrylic Paint by Dario Cusani - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Acrylic painting realized by Dario Cusani in 1996. Certificate of authenticity by the Artist on photograph.
I BECOME A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST (1986)
In the spring of 1986, with the clo...
Category
1990s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Reclined Nude - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
By Antonio Feltrinelli
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude with Parrot is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Oil on canvas
Beautiful and representative artwork depicting a reclin...
Category
1930s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Still Life - Oil Painting by Claude Decamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Still Life is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s
Oil painting on cardboard canvas.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Th...
Category
1970s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Gulf and the Bay of Pozzuoli - Neapolitan Gouache - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Titled on lower center.
Sheet 36.4x49 / Frame 54.7 x 66.5.
Beautiful 19th century representation of the Gulf and the Bay of Pozzuoli near Naples.
Good conditions, includes a conte...
Category
19th Century Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of Lady - Oil on Canvas by Carlo Socrate - 1930
By Carlo Socrate
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Lady is an original oil on canvas artwork realized by Carlo Socrate (1889-1967) in 1930.
A beautiful portrait of a woman by one of the major exponents of the association of painters that came to be known as Scuola Romana (Roman School).
Very good conditions.
Collect a masterpiece of the XX century.
Carlo Socrate (Mezzana Bigli -Pavia 1889 – Rome 1967)
He is the son of actors and lives in Argentina until the age of nine years.
Once returned to Italy, he begins attending the Free School of the Nude and in 1914, he goes to Rome, where a year later he would study at Villa Strohl-Fern.
In 1917, he worked for the company, Ballets Russes by Diaghilev; he also collaborated with the scenography for Las Meninas and prepared the scenes for Les femmes de bonne humeur (The Good Humored Ladies) by Léon Bakst. During this period, he meets Picasso, whom he follows to Paris, collaborating with him on scenes from Parade. During his stay in Paris, he meets Derain and other exponents of the cultural environment.
With Picasso, he visited Barcelona and then Madrid where, together, they visited The Prado Museum.
In 1918, at the Casina Valadier on the Pincian Hill (Rome), he exhibits his Still Life with a Dish of Apples and Onions, which arouses perplexity in the Roman environment for his personal rare “neoclassicism” but at the same time, attentive to European situation in those years.
After Portatrice di Frutta (Fruit Carrier) (1924), which is one of his masterpieces, he exhibits i Cacciatori (The Hunters), a very challenging painting, at the “Novecento Italiano...
Category
1930s Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Gallant Scenes - Oil on Canvas - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pair of Gallant scenes is a pair of artworks realized by the French School in 18th Century.
Oil on canvas. It Includes 2 ancient gilded frames.
Scen...
Category
18th Century French School Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Knight - Oil on Board by Pietro della Vecchia - 17th Century
By Pietro della Vecchia
Located in Roma, IT
The Knight is an original painting realized by Pietro della Vecchia during the XVII century. Oil on board.
Original title: Ritratto di giovane cavaliere con cappello piumato. Includ...
Category
Mid-17th Century Baroque Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
By a Hair's Breadth - Paint by Alberto Gallerati - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Alberto Gallerati (b. 1945) in 1970s.
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape - Oil on Canvas by Giulio Aristide Sartorio - 1890 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed by the artist lower left.
Realized a year after Sartorio’s journey to Paris with Michetti, it is a beautiful, early example of the sepulchral and pre-raphaelite style wh...
Category
1890s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Il cestino di nastri
Located in Roma, RM
Armando Spadini (Florence 1883 – Rome 1925), The Basket of ribbons (1911 – 1912)
Oil painting on canvas of 76 x 96 cm, on the back there is the label of the I Quadriennale Romana o...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hommage to Paul Klee - Painting by Giorgio Cresciani - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract is an original contemporary artwork realzed by Giorgio Cresciani in 1977.
Oil painting on table.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Category
1970s Abstract Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
Girl on the Armchair - Oil on Canvas by Anonymous Italian Artist - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Girl In The Armachair is an artwork realized in the 1950s by Anonymous artist.
Original oil painting on canvas applied to cardboard.
Includes wooden frame:60 x 7 x 50.5 cm
Good co...
Category
1950s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with Red House - Oil Painting by Giovanni Omiccioli - Mid-20th Century
By Giovanni Omiccioli
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with red house is a modern artwork realized by Giovanni Omiccioli in the mid-20th century.
Mixed colored oil painting
Includes frame
Hand signed on the lower margin
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Small White Roses - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova, 60x25 cm. Realized In 2020.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life of Flowers in Cases - Oil on Canvas by G. Salvini - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Still life of flowers in vases" is the artwork realized by Giuseppe Salvini.
Oil painting on canvas 70 x 100 cm, frame included 92 x 122 cm.
Signed lower right G. Salvini.
Good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Female Portrait - Painting on Canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1931
By Antonio Feltrinelli
Located in Roma, IT
Female Portrait is an original artwork realized in 1931 by Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 - Gargnano, 1942).
Original Painting on canvas.
Hand-signed on the lower right corner. ...
Category
1930s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas
Still Life - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1968.
Hand signed lower left and hand signed and dated on rear.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of A...
Category
1960s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lemon Tree - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova 70x50 cm, created to bring the feeling of the real alive lemon tree, that could look fantastic on someone's kitchen.
Category
2010s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Maybe a Car was Missing - Paint by Alberto Gallerati - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Alberto Gallerati (b. 1945) in 1970s.
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Roman Landscapes - by J.F. Van Bloemen - 18th Century
By Jan Frans van Bloemen (Orizzonte)
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful couple of Roman Landscape by J. F. Van Bloemen, in very good conditions and with later wooden frames.
Bibliography and Exhibitions:
Old Master Exhibition, H.Terry-Engell, ...
Category
Early 18th Century Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Octopus - Oil Paint by Adriano Pompa - 2019
By Adriano Pompa
Located in Roma, IT
Octopus - 2019 - mixed media on canvas applied on cardboard (oil painting, china ink and paint) - 28 cm x 45,5 cm - original frame designed by the author ( 37 cm x 59 cm ).
Category
2010s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green Apples - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2000s
By Zhang Wei Guang
Located in Roma, IT
Green Apples is an original oil painting realized by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) in 2000s.
Includes frame.
Hand signed on the lower right margin.
Signature and various signs in Chin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nude Model - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
By Antonio Feltrinelli
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Model is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Good conditions.
Not signed.
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1...
Category
1930s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
The High Point of the Dive - Paint by Alberto Gallerati - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Alberto Gallerati (b. 1945) in 1970s.
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
I'm Told About Copa Cabana - Paint by Alberto Gallerati - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Alberto Gallerati (b. 1945) in 1970s.
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Black Panthers Party - Mixed Media on Canvas by Diamond - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
This painting, one of ten, belonging to a series of works exhibited in 2017 for the " DECADES " exhibition, that tell the atmosphere of 70s
Dimension: 100 cm x 150 cm. Mixed Media o...
Category
2010s Pop Art Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Evening Miracle - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova, 70x50 cm., realized in 2022.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Odalisque and Guitar - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
By Antonio Feltrinelli
Located in Roma, IT
Odalisque and Guitar is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on board.
Signed on the back
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 188...
Category
1930s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Villa - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 67x76.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of...
Category
1960s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Crystal Vase with Apples - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2001
By Zhang Wei Guang
Located in Roma, IT
Multi-coloured apples fill an elegant crystal vase situated on a smooth surface. This vase is the heart of the composition and it captures the attention of the beholders with its met...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Landscape - Oil Painting by Kurt Schwitters - 1936
By Kurt Schwitters
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by Kurt Schwitters in 1936.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Signed with monogram and dated on the lower right rec...
Category
1930s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Male Portrait - Paint by Fernando Porfili - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Mixed media on canvas realized by Fernando Porfili (Porfirius) in 1961.
Hand signed and dated.
Includes a coeval wooden frame.
Very good condition.
Category
1960s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Destroy the Gender - Acrylic by Anna Maria Caboni - 2023
By Anna Maria Caboni
Located in Roma, IT
Destroy the Gender is a provocative acrylic painting and collage realized by the Italian artist Anna Maria Caboni.
The collage depicts a statuary male nude covered by orange underwe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Allegory - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
By Antonio Feltrinelli
Located in Roma, IT
Allegory is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Original oil on plywood.
Beautiful and represent...
Category
1930s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Orange Buttefly - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova, 100x40 cm. , realized in 2020.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Archery - Oil on Canvas by an Anonymous French Master end of 18th/Early 19th
Located in Roma, IT
Archery is a beautiful oil on canvas realized by an anonymous French artist of the end of XVIII century and the beginning of XIX century.
This marvelous genre scene is very detailed...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sunset Boat - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova, 50x60 cm., realized in 2022.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oriental Bathroom - Oil Painting by Alexander Sergeev - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental Bathroom is an original modern artwork realized by Alexander Sergheev.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Includes frame: 34 x 3.5 x 29 cm
Category
1990s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Wedding of Rebecca and Isaac - Oil Painting by E. Savini - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Wedding of Rebecca and Isaac is an oil painting realized by Enrico Savini (1832-1869), in the mid-19th Century.
Artist's name on the bottom plate. ...
Category
19th Century Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interior of a dacha - Tempera by L. and R. Brailowsky - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Interior of a Dacha is an original painting in tempera on paper realized by Leonid and Rimma Brailowsky.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
The state of preservation of the artwork i...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Adoration of the Golden Calf - Oil Painting by Willemsz I de Wet - 17th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Adoration of the Golden Calf is an original modern artwork realized by Jacob Willemsz I de Wet (Haarlem, c. 1610 – between 1675 and 1691) in the half o...
Category
1950s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Magic Flute - Oil Painting on Canvas by S. Pugliese - 2019
Located in Roma, IT
The Magic Flute is an original Contemporary Artwork realized by the Italian artist Sabrina Pugliese (b. 1990).
Original oil painting on canvas.
Hand-signed on the lower right corner: Sabrina Pugliese.
Hand-signed, titled, and dated on the back too.
Total dimensions: 50x100 cm.
Mint conditions.
"This painting wants immerse the viewer directly into the snowy scenario of Turin. The buildings in the background are transformed into magic flutes that play the music described in the flying scores. I am particularly attached to this city because I lived in Piedmont for three years". Sabrina Pugliese
BIOGRAPHY
Sabrina Pugliese was born on April 2nd, 1990 in a small village in the Southern Italy, Nova Siri. Since she was a child, she was interested in arts in their different forms: singing, playing piano and visual arts. She graduated in Modern Literature at the University of Urbino, in the heart of the Italian Renaissance, the birthplace of Raffaello Sanzio. She didn’t have the chance to attend artistic high school because it was too far from home. So, after the graduation, she began to devote herself to her passions: painting, exclusively oil on canvas. She has started painting as a self-trained painter to promote and improve her territory, Basilicata, also named Lucania. Nowadays, she expanded her project because she wants to spread Mediterranean holidays’ colours, sounds and perfumes, with the image of the sea, all over the world. She knows that painting can give voice to landscapes of the soul through seascapes. She lived for ten years away from home to study and work and, in this way, she created a stronger relationship with her origins. During the pandemic, she has decided to return to Basilicata to offer her small contribution to the Southern of Italy.
She has participated in several national and international exhibitions including:
• Collective exhibition with two painters: Giulio Orioli e Nino Oriolo for “Night of the brigands” 2019, in Nova Siri Centre (MT) thank to collaboration of Maria De Lorenzo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dog - Oil on Canvas by Filippo Palizzi - Second Half of 19th Century
By Filippo Palizzi
Located in Roma, IT
Realized by Filippo Palizzi between 1850 and 1860, in very good conditions.
Includes a contemporary wooden gilded frame.
Filippo Palizzi is an italian...
Category
1850s Naturalistic Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flower Vase - Oil on Panel - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flower Vase is an artwork realized in the early 20th Century by Marcel Gilly.
Original oil painting on panel.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Good cond...
Category
Early 20th Century Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Still Life - Oil Paint by Santo Miano - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original contemporary artwork realized by the artist Santo Miano in 1990
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Hand signed on the lower left.
Includes frame:59 x ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Icy Mountains - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova, 60x80 cm. , realized in 2020.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gemelli - Oil Paint by Salvatore Travascio - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
"Gemelli" (Twins) is an oil painting on wood made in 1990. Framed with wooden stick. Hand signed on the back. Very good condition.
Category
1990s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Theatre Stage - Painting on Canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
By Antonio Feltrinelli
Located in Roma, IT
The Theatre Stage is an original artwork realized in the first half of the 20th Century by Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 - Gargnano, 1942).
Original Painting on canvas.
Total d...
Category
1930s Modern Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Cup with Strawberries - Oil on Canvas by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) - 2000
By Zhang Wei Guang
Located in Roma, IT
Original oil on canvas realized by Zhang Wei Guang in the early 2000s.
Includes a contemporary black frame 38x48,5 cm.
Excellent conditions.
Zhang Wei Guang, also called ‘mirror' ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
I Love Manhattan - Paint by Dario Cusani - 2000
Located in Roma, IT
TECHNIQUE PHOTO-PAINTING
The technique used was defined as PHOTO-PAINTING by the art critic Silvia Pegoraro of Ravenna Italy and was an Artist's invention in 1994. In fact, since 1964 Dario Cusani had been working with photography and painting which had never been united.
The Artist:
"In 1994 I returned to Naples, the city where I was born and had been missing for 10 years after moving to Rome in 1984. I returned to see the MIRACLE achieved by the G7 with the Presidents of the most powerful countries led by Bill Clinton, US President. It was a wonderful visit to my city reborn in its ancient splendor! I took over 5,000 photos of the squares and monuments of Naples with my Nikon. I returned to Rome and had all the photos printed and put them on various tables and assembled all the various pieces. I immediately realized that parts were missing which I completed with paint. A spontaneous gesture with which I had unconsciously achieved a great innovation: I had combined the REALITY of photography with the DREAM represented by painting. Silvia, my muse who knew me well, when I showed her the first work IMPERATING MALE (R:0176) that I had done she said to me: "Dario you have united the TWO WORLDS of your life: that of your childhood with the sensitivity of the dreamer with the concrete one that they gave you taught your parents with education, training (degree in Economic Sciences) and work started at 15 years old in your family's copper industry. These formative years had distanced myself from those of childhood when I studied the piano and dreamed of becoming an orchestra conductor. I also drew and painted with my imagination in search of the affections I was missing as my parents were busy in the factory rebuilding Italy destroyed by the recently ended war. I then refined PHOTO-PAINTING which developed into DIGITAL PROCESSING having replaced the BRUSH with the MOUSE to fill the gaps left by the photography and complete the REALITY which with painting became another FANTASTIC reality"
SOCIAL RESEARCH
This work is part of the SOCIAL "research" which addresses issues that concern people and the "polis" which in Latin means city but also "political model".
I LOVE MANHATTAN
In 1999 I was invited to have an exhibition at the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò in New York scheduled for September 2000. So I went to the BIG APPLE for the first time at the age of 50 and was amazed by the great vital energy I felt. Until then I had traveled abroad little because I was busy with studies, sports and already at 19 years old in my family's copper industry and after a few years also with my children who I had looked after a lot since they came into the world.
In NY I took many photos, but this work was born from another image: the map of the phantasmagoric subway!!! It was simple for me, since I was a child I looked at the clouds where I saw many shapes of people, animals etc. I saw at first sight the prow of a Jumbo, the famous giant of the skies, and sketched some sketches.
Upon returning to Rome I was in love with NY and it was easy to see in that map another image that is closely linked to love. The male penis...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Rome - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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