Oreste Zevola (1954) - Azzurro

The lot includes two paintings, both in the 35x50 format; it is a composition. The frames, however, are 40x50.

An extraordinary and polyvalent artist, Oreste Zevola (Naples 1954 – 2014) was a draftsman, painter, sculptor, set designer, image inventor, and illustrator, gaining international recognition very early.
A versatile artist, after his early collaborations in publishing and cover design for newspapers and magazines in Italy and abroad, in the late 1970s he founded in Trieste the art magazine “Juliet,” with Roberto Vidali and Rolan Marino, and began to exhibit in solo and group shows.
From the early 1980s, alongside his drawing work he turned to painting, producing 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, in addition to Naples. In the early 2000s he realized two artistic‑humanitarian projects in the Central African Republic, later shown in Naples, at the French Institute (2005) and at Giusi Laurino’s Fabbrica del lunedì (2007).
He also frequently engaged with theater and cinema, while continuing to experiment, at the same time, with new artistic techniques and specific materials, such as ceramics or carved cardboard.
The transversal nature of his artistic research, the richness of his production, the variety of contaminations and collaborations, however, never altered the aesthetic and conceptual unity of his work, as clearly shown by this exhibition, for which over 70 works have been selected from the Archive, exclusively temperas on canvas and paper.

http://www.orestezevola.com/

https://www.aboutartonline.com/a-casa-di-oreste-zevola-il-disegno-che-attraversa-i-mondi/

Oreste Zevola was an intellectual weaver who intertwined history, philosophy, literature, cinema, theatre and, above all, the animal and plant world, creating dreamlike visual frescoes with a special invitation to meditate and marvel through his work.

http://www.orestezevola.com/

https://www.aboutartonline.com/a-casa-di-oreste-zevola-il-disegno-che-attraversa-i-mondi/