ARTISTS
Giulio Ceraldi born (1948), born in Naples, is a painter and theatrical set designer.
He trained at the Filippo Palizzi Art Institute in Naples, where he would later teach painting disciplines. He began his exhibition activity in 1972 at the Mediterranean Gallery of Naples. Participates in the X QUADRIENNALE - The new generation, Rome 1975.
Driven by the need to make his own artistic language evolve, he leaves the individual dimension of the studio, to which painting forces him and arrives at the choral one of the theater. In 1979 he moved to Rome. He collaborates as a painter in the "TRACCE" project by Antonio Neiwiller and as an actor in some of his theatrical performances in the years 1982-92. He is among the creators of the VIRUS group.
He creates sculptures and props in the theatrical show “I PERSIANI” with sets and direction by Mario Martone at the Greek Theater of Syracuse 1990. He collaborates as a set designer in some theatrical performances of the director Claudio Collovà. Together with the musician Marco Ariano he organizes workshops, stages, performances (1998-2002)
He has taken part in national and international exhibitions and collaborated with the Museo delle Trame Mediterranee in Gibellina.
Consuelo Chierici / VISUAL ARTIST
Born in Milan. Sculptor and performing artist. In the late 1980s he moved to New York where he graduated from the New School of Social Researches (BS in Liberal Arts and a diploma from the Mannes College of Music Conservatory in Music and Audio engineering). He is among the creators of the VIRUS group.
His work it has a thematic development that finds lyrical landing in subtle and mysterious tales. Absolutely out of the bizarre fashions of the market, Consuelo creates ancestral presences, luminous, swinging or frozen objects. Silent cities, bodies torn from a denied sensuality. Chessboard where the game is made impossible by an abstract geometry. An entire evocative alphabet that induces reflections on the very meaning of existence.
Giancarlo Savino was born in Naples. Painter and sculptor. He declares himself self-taught. He lived in Copenhagen and Paris. In 1986 in Naples he founded the STUDIAPERTI movement for the affirmation of the independence of art from the galleries that select artists according to market and lobby criteria. He worked in experimental theater collaborating with the Alfred Jarry Theater (1969). He is among the creators of the VIRUS group. Since 1997 he has lived in Rome.
Antonio Tabucchi wrote that Savino's painting is a mixture of an expressionist sign and the light line of ink and the delicate tones of watercolor. At the center of his works there is always the human figure, an expressionist sign that transfigures man, into a sort of supernatural being.
