Beniamino Ciccotelli (1937) - Composizione floreale

Beniamino Ciccotelli was born in Tollo in Abruzzo in 1937.

He lives and carries out his artistic activity in Montecatini Terme.

Ciccotelli left his hometown in the immediate postwar period to reach Turin, where his artistic temperament, already expressed in youth with innate ability, meets the first approvals. The magical atmosphere that characterizes Turin's cultural life during the period spanning the '50s and '60s steers his attention toward a complex, continually evolving reality. His early interests thus turn toward the “figurative” and the study of industrial landscapes that shape the face of the new Turin. A continuous attention to the events of great painting in Italy and abroad contributes to the development of Ciccotelli’s personal painting language. The subsequent move to Tuscany marks yet another decisive moment in his artistic journey. Placed in a context where contemporary art and masterpieces of tradition are readily available for study, Ciccotelli finds fertile ground to explore his artistic talent. In the ’80s Ciccotelli returns to the “primitive” values of painting where the subject is only a pretext to investigate, explore nature in its reality. With the cycle Natura e Pittura Ciccotelli tackles painting the

contrast between shadows and light, between depth of space and the structure of surfaces, not shying away from incursions into the baggage of his ancient experiences.

Portraits, landscapes and still lifes, classical or drawn from the daily life of a familiar symbiosis with the objects of the craft, investigated today without illusions but only “realistically,” are Ciccotelli’s preferred subjects. Representations of a reality that seeks to be knowledge and does not accept confusions with theEphemeral of current events and fashion. Beniamino Ciccotelli’s works are present in Italian, French, Belgian and German galleries. His paintings have also been exhibited in San Francisco (CA), New York (NY), Washington (DC), Seattle (WA), Palm Desert (CA) and San José (CA).