Gaetano Fiore’s distinctive minimalist style which involves combining abstract and natural forms facilitates the creation of images which are striking in both their simplicity and their employment of a mix of geometric and fluid shapes. His images are also characterised by the use of what at first glance appear to be striking combinations of dominant colours.

In actual fact, however, although the colour and shades of colour he uses are indeed bold, the colour combinations always manage to compliment each other, resulting in visually appetising imagery.

Fiore’s talents were first recognised in 1986 by the Neapolitan art critic Luigi Eboli. Soon after Fiore held his first exhibition at the Galleria Salammbo in Paris.

Thanks to his wife, U. Rieger, Fiore’s work has been exhibited in Germany, where Fiore has also come into contact with various German artists and galleries.

Since 1997, Fiore has come under the tutorship of noted Italian contemporary artist Salvatore Emblema , whose work has had a great influence on Fiore’s style.

Interestingly enough, Fiore has also works as a scenographer for a number of theatres around Italy. Indeed, he has worked with the Globe in Rome, and the Nuovo Theatre in Salerno. Additionally, Fiore’s scenographic work also caught the eye of noted Italian actor, theatre director, writer and musician, Tato Russo - who is the artistic director of the Bellini Theatre in Naples.

Another curiosity is that Fiore is considered something of an expert on Afro-American music. Actually, one also wonders whether Fiore’s imagery has been influenced by traditional African art.

His interest in Afro-American music has brought him into contact with Carlos Ward and Bill Dixon , with whom he often shares and exchanges both musical and pictorial musings.

When not painting, Fiore can be found at the Zenale and Butinone Institute in Bergamo, Italy, where he works as teacher of graphic advertising design.

Gaetano Fiore was born in 1960 near Naples, Italy, and still studies at Naples’ Fine Art Academy .

Fiore has two children, and lives in Bergamo.

Gaetano Fiore has a personal website, in Italian and German, where more of his work can be viewed:

Gaetano Fiore

Some more examples of Fiore’s work is visible below.

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Artist Angelo Mazzoleni is an interesting and original painter and his original and striking work has already a interest.

Although primarily self-taught, he has attended courses at the Carrara Academy in Bergamo, and commenced his artistic work when only young under the guidence of under the guide of some masters.

Born in Florence on in 1952, Angelo Mazzoleni, who now lives and works in Bergamo, Italy, has been painting for more than 27 years.

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Italy is in will be inviting Angelo Mazzoleni to display a selection of his work.

Engraver and printmaker Maria Pina Bentivenga is a Rome based artist who trained in the Painting Department of the Rome Academy of Fine Arts.

Her work is visible on her personal website: Maria Pina Bentivenga

Maria Pina Bentivenga is also a member of the Incisori Veneti Association, which she joined in 2003.

She teaches Graphical Special Techniques at Rome University of Fine Arts.

Her work has already received critical acclaim.

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by Guglielmo Gigliotti
“ When Maria Pina Bentivenga paints or etches, she does not do it to simply reproduce images that she has seen but to develop, step by step, her long and meticulous studies on the nature of marks and line. These are the elements that she uses as the basis for her work and with them is able to create images that can stand on their own. „

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Born in 1970 in Pavia, Italy, Marta Dell’Angelo’s first exhibition was held in Rome in July 2000 at the la Tartaruga Gallery of Plinio De Martiis.

Marta Dell’Angelo won the first edition of Premio New York in 2002, an event which was sponsored by both the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Italian Academy at Columbia University.

Examples of her work have also been displayed in Paris and Milan.

Working in oils and pencil, her subjects are often women. She appears to have penchant for mixing subtle and bold colours to very good effect.

Some examples of her work can be seen here:

Qui Brescia

and here:

Chicken Gang

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The lifelike works of Alessandro Scarabello are spell binding. At least they are for this Italian contemporary art hunter.

Some examples of the work of this young Roman painter can be seen at The Gallery via della Barchetta 11, in Rome.