Oreste Zevola (1954) - Senza titolo

An extraordinary and versatile artist, Oreste Zevola (Naples 1954–2014) was a draughtsman, painter, sculptor, scenographer, inventor of images, and illustrator, gaining international recognition at a very early stage.
Versatile artist, after early editorial collaborations and covers for newspapers and magazines in Italy and abroad, at the end of the seventies he founded in Trieste the art magazine “Juliet,” with Roberto Vidali and Rolan Marino, starting to exhibit in solo and group shows. From the early eighties, in addition to drawing he united painting, creating large-format canvases dominated by his unmistakable stroke; in the same period numerous trips to Paris began, where he later chose to work and live until the end, as well as in Naples. In the early 2000s he carried out two artistic-humanitarian projects in the Central African Republic, later also exhibited in Naples, at the Institut Français (2005) and at Giusi Laurino’s Fabbrica del lunedì (2007). His connections with theater and cinema were also frequent, while continuing to experiment, simultaneously, with new artistic techniques and specific materials, such as ceramics or cut cardboard. The transversal nature of his artistic research, the richness of his production, the variety of contaminations and collaborations, however, have never altered the aesthetic and conceptual unity of his work, as clearly emerges from this exhibition, for which more than 70 works were selected from the Archive, exclusively tempera on canvas and on paper.

http://www.orestezevola.com/

At Oreste Zevola's home, the drawing that traverses worlds