Oreste Zevola (1954) - Azzurro

An extraordinary and multi-faceted artist, Oreste Zevola (Naples 1954–2014) was a draftsman, painter, sculptor, set designer, image creator, and illustrator, gaining international recognition at a very early stage. A versatile artist, after his initial editorial collaborations and covers for newspapers and magazines in Italy and abroad, at the end of the 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, he took up 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 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 he continued to experiment concurrently 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, and 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 more than 70 works have been selected from the Archive, exclusively tempera on canvas and on paper.