Initially an intimate painter, voted for the small still life, then to the collage and suggestions of American pop-art until the most fulgorous of the 1970s. Artist of great talent and humanity, with his painted crib significantly contributed to the revival of the historic center of Salerno.
1922
2017
Painter
Born in Tramonti, on the Amalfi Coast, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, with the masters Vincenzo Ciardo and Emilio Notte.
In his cultural and artistic formation, travels were fundamental in Paris, Madrid and Monaco, as well as visits with intellectuals such as Alfonso Gatto, Raphael Alberti, Edoardo Sanguineti, Marcello Venturoli, Duilio Morosini, Alberico Sala, Paolo Ricci, Vasco Pratolini.
It was in 1953 its first solo exhibition in Via dei Mercanti in Salerno, a city that will welcome the artist until his last day.
Its life, in fact, is divided between the evocative and beloved historic center of Salerno and the city of Minori, another place of inspiration for its most beautiful paintings dedicated to the sea and the Mediterranean beauty of the Coast.
The artist made several works for public spaces, including decorative panels for the Municipal Polyambulatory of Salerno
(1967), for the Civil Hospital of Pagani (1967), the fresco for the Conference Hall of the Order of the Medici (1968), the large panel for the national headquarters of the State Monopolies in Rome.
His “great work” is Presepe Dipinto, inaugurated in 1982 and preserved in the hall S. Lazzaro del Duomo di Salerno, which represents a heritage of great artistic value. The idea was born from his former pupil Peppe Natella and was immediately a great success because he knew how to tell the people of the neighborhood who gravitated around the historic center of Salerno. The artist in his more than 100 pieces, shaped and hand-painted with natural size, refined the humble and the important character by integrating them into his original crib without distinction, as in a healthy community and solidarity. The work is a point of reference in the city center and an unmissable appointment for the Salento and the many tourists who flock the rooms of the Duomo in the Christmas period.
