Angelo Casciello
La pittura scolpita
curated by Andrea Ingenito
NAPLES
Andrea Ingenito Gallery
Via Cappella Vecchia 8a
30th September – 13th November
2021
Opening /
30th September
h. 18.00 – 20.00
The Andrea Ingenito Contemporary Art Gallery in Naples is pleased to announce, after the summer break, the new exhibition entitled “ANGELO CASCIELLO. La pittura scolpita”, an artist of national and international importance. An exhibition that marks the return of a solo exhibition of the artist in Naples after 20 years. A selection of artworks chosen by the curator Andrea Ingenito with the artist, which marks the beginning of a collaboration with the Gallery. About 30 works will be exhibited, drawings, paintings and a sculpture, made from 1995 to the present, where the fantastic visions are transformed into a plastic metamorphosis – pictorial, an art that from the beginning has told in a visceral way the strong bond with the land of origin. From the use of materials used for sculpture as iron, wood, marble and stones of Vesuvius, while “sculpted painting” is characterized by tales of two-dimensional signs of intense plasticity, living in colored backgrounds of red, burnt earth, charcoal black and bright white, evoking magical places and cryptic symbols of Mediterranean art.
The exhibition will open Thursday, 30th September 2021 at 18:00 at the presence of the artist.
Biography
Angelo CASCIELLO was born in Scafati in 1957, he graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples in 1982. He is a painter, sculptor and environmental operator. He lives and works between Scafati and Milan, where he teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. His debut in the world of art dates to 1977. In 1979 it holds a solo exhibition to Lucio Amelio’s Gallery in Naples in the within of the Review of the New Creativity in the South.
It imposed itself on the national and international scene in 1986 by participating in the XI Quadrennial in Rome and the XLII Venice Biennale, where he will present again in 2006 and 2011. About the public works, on remind the installations at the Mugnano di Napoli Station – Metro Campania – Stations of art in 2005 / 2009.
The works of Angelo Casciello have been exhibited in exhibitions held in Belgium, Croatia, China, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.S.A.
Anthological exhibitions – selected:
1997, Casciello, ContemporaneaComo3, Como.1998, Casciello. Opere recenti. Palazzo Reale / Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici,Napoli. 2001, Casciello. Visioni del Sacro. Museo Stauros d’Arte Sacra Contemporanea, Isola del Gran Sasso / Teramo. 2002, Casciello / Premio Scipione. Palazzo Galeotti, Macerata. 2003, Casciello. Percorsi, 1973 / 2003. Castel dell’Ovo, Napoli. 2007, Angelo Casciello. Apparizioni Regali, Reggia di Caserta / Appartamenti Storici. 2010, Casciello. Le giornate disegnate, FRAC., Baronissi (SA). 2013, Casciello. Il tempio dei segni, Museo Arcos, Benevento; 2015, Casciello. La stanza della Pace, Fondazione La Verde LaMalfa, San Giovanni la Punta / Catania. 2017 / 2018 – Casciello. Pompei, Parco Archeologico, Pompei.
