The Italian painter and sculptor Esposito Arcangelo was born in Avellino in 1956. He lives and works between Milan and San Nazzaro, in the province of Benevento. In 1976 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he graduated in 1980.It was in Milan, in the early 1980s, that he created his first cycle of works, Terra mia, dominated by dark and dramatic atmospheres, created with poor and organic materials such as earth, charcoal and pure pigments, which mark a discontinuity...

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  The Italian painter and sculptor Esposito Arcangelo was born in Avellino in 1956. He lives and works between Milan and San Nazzaro, in the province of Benevento. In 1976 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he graduated in 1980.
  It was in Milan, in the early 1980s, that he created his first cycle of works, Terra mia, dominated by dark and dramatic atmospheres, created with poor and organic materials such as earth, charcoal and pure pigments, which mark a discontinuity with the chromatic vivacity of his compatriots, representatives of the Transavanguardia movement. Terra mia is a series that occupies Arcangelo for several years and lays the foundations of his work, through the elaboration of a stripped gestural sign, which transforms the landscape into an abstract and at the same time sanguine and carnal vision of nature. The motif of the Earth, the physical and spiritual place where the signs and symbols of the ancestral tradition come together, also returns in the later cycles, enriched and amplified by the intuitions and suggestions arising from the exploration of new cultural horizons.
  "All of Arcangelo's research, writes Ivan Quaroni, is based on roots and a sense of belonging, on the sharing of a cultural heritage, that of the Samnite, which he has been able to extend and transform, to the point of including the heritages of other places and other peoples". An affection for the place of origin that has been able to evolve and transform into something more powerful and universal, generating a painting with a "global" vocation, populated by suggestions of Africa and the Near East, the Mediterranean, distant China and many others. At the end of the 1980s, the Planets cycle replaced the Terra mia cycle, overwriting the latter's images with a more aerial visual grammar, characterized by the introduction of color and circular and elliptical pictograms that recall the shapes of celestial spheres. A new floating cosmology was born, impregnated with lyrical elements, as well as an expansion of iconography - each rigidly inscribed in closed cycles that followed one another for more than three decades - stimulated by real journeys or fantastic pilgrimages. In this crossroads of trajectories, histories and distant imaginations, the artist's stylistic mark remains recognizable, with its amalgam of signs, stains, pigment accumulations and surface mottling. Arcangelo paints almost without the mediation of tools, sometimes spreading the color on the canvas with quick and precise hand gestures, sometimes printing the pigment with his fingers, as if he were looking for the truth of painting in the human and fallible physiology of the sign.Over the years, Esposito Arcangelo has seen his work, as a painter as well as a sculptor, have numerous solo exhibitions, as well as participating regularly in collective exhibitions.
  
  

  

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