Oreste Zevola (1954) - Azzurro Pace

Extraordinary and versatile artist, Oreste Zevola (Naples 1954 – 2014) was a draftsman, painter, sculptor, stage designer, inventor of images, and illustrator, earning international recognition very early. A 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, alongside drawing he pursued 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 realized two artistic- humanitarian projects in the Central African Republic, later exhibited also in Naples, at the Institut Français (2005) and at the Fabbrica del lunedì by Giusi Laurino (2007). His ties with theater and cinema were also frequent, while continuing to experiment, simultaneously, with new artistic techniques and specific materials, such as ceramics or intricately cut cardboard. The transversal nature of his artistic research, the richness of his production, and the variety of influences and collaborations, however, never altered the aesthetic and conceptual unity of his work, as is clearly shown by this exhibition, for which more than 70 works were selected from the Archive, exclusively tempera on canvas and on paper.

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