Giuseppe Amadio
Giuseppe Amadio was born in 1944 in Todi, where he
currently lives and works. He attended technical-artistic schools and free
courses in design and advertising graphics, dealing with signs on an industrial
scale. He alternates his activity as a painter with that of designer in the interior
design sector. For over twenty years he has collaborated assiduously as a
studio technician with the artist Piero Dorazio. From works characterized by a
material-gestural poetics, he has moved in recent years to a language of
conceptual matrix through the production of monochromatic everted canvases.
Among the visual languages of the contemporary age, that of Giuseppe Amadio is
one of the most fascinating, resulting in a great inventor, having been able to
organize unprecedented dimensional, compositional, chromatic and spatial
solutions. An inventive and cognitive continuity that crosses his artistic work
with an aesthetic research that welcomes sentiment and reason, emotion and
rationality.
Amadio goes beyond the two-dimensionality and gives
importance to space and matter. Amadio's artworks do not present gashes or
tears, but follow soft lines that furrow the canvas like footprints, passages
of something that marks the passage of time; time and space therefore coexist
in these large monochrome canvases.
The technique used by Giuseppe Amadio is certainly
inspired by the aforementioned twentieth century currents, but it is above all
the result of personal research and experimentation; the color, a fundamental
element, constitutes the last step of the creative process and is applied using
resins and dyes based on rubber, very elastic and suitable to conform to the
canvas.
Amadio became one of the most interesting and
recognized contemporary artists both in Italy and abroad. He is also highly
appreciated by critics, who define him as an artist with an "anti -
minimalist" style.
