Antonio di Viccaro
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The artistic career of the landscape artist Antonio di Viccaro, origin of Castelforte, in the province of Latina, is marked by a strong and incisive key, color, the protagonist of all his creations. It defines him as a painter, which is confirmed along his path, because his work is made of color, a prevailing presence, the result of which in time will demonstrate the acquisition and adoption of a precise exploration of color. A passion discovered at a young age, a born talent turned to mastery, thanks to a career of study, persistence and work.
Di Viccaro today is stronger with a well-established and successful knowledge of “painting” which comes from color, in a natural and marked way, where the spatula, his favorite instrument, creates and transforms the canvas a fact apparently known and already lived, reformulated and awakened by his touch. He confirms the use of the spatula, for most of his career, a technique used by a few landscape artists in Italy, resulting in the creation of a personal style and color, also combined arbitrarily, of great visual and emotional impact.
Looking at one of his scenes, the flickering veils of water, the streets with flashes of color and light, the viewer is initially stunned, almost slapped, and the eye examines the landscape, interpreted by the artist, in new key, modern, where the yellow is next to blue, red to pink, in a contrast that creates union. The viewer is then conscious of matter, the senses then stirred. The color dazzles, in some places the oil is so generously laid on the canvas that you almost want to touch; sometimes you have the sensation of hearing the roar of the waters of a stormy sea tinged with a light blue, or caress overlapping glazes in a calm lake. Then the detail, the care washed in particular to attract the attention. Windows washed by a strong light but reassuring, flowers nestled among the bustling streets, where the human figure is rarely represented, protagonists being nature, life, love for beauty.
Di Viccaro feels nature, creates the landscape, which is illuminated through its internalization in a process of revision which becomes evident in the work. The landscape is full of optimism, even when the painting shows a scene at dusk because the light has already been manifested, temporally prior and existing. The color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul, suggests the father of the abstractism, V. Kandinsky, the work of Antonio di Viccaro, explicitly comes to the eyes, but its strength is in being able to even go further, thrilling and involving the soul of the viewer.
Exhibition 1967; Pomezia, 1968; Faenza, Terracina, 1969; Perugia, Imola, Lugo di Romagna, 1970; Bologna, Fiuggi, Forlì, Carpi, Montecatini, Pomezia, 1971; Reggio Emilia, Lecce, Bari, Forlì, L'Aquila, Pescara, 1972; Venice, Ravenna, Foggia, Fiuggi, Lecce, Terni, 1973; Taranto, Messina, Latina, Cesena, Lecce, Cosenza, 1974; Reggio Calabria, Terni, Faenza, Fiuggi, Latina, 1975; Sassari, Avellino, Matera, Cianciano, Rome, 1976; Milan, Bergamo, Florence, Barletta, Lecce, Foggia, 1977; Parma, Latina, Baia Domitia, Formia, Fiuggi, Reggio Calabria, 1978; ; New York, Boston, Chicago, Miami, 1990; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Milan, 1991; Positano, Capri, San Gimignano, Monte Carlo, 1992; Naples, Santa Fe, Palm Beach, 1993, Florence, Bologna, Bari, 1994; Spring Lake, New York, Washington, 1995, New York, Las Vegas, Positano, Capri, 1996; Positano, Capri, New York, Miami, Boston, 1997; Positano, Capri, New York, Miami, Chicago, 1998; Positano, Capri, New York, Chicago, Miami, Milan, 1999; Positano, Capri, Milan, New York, Miami, Chicago, Anguilla Caribbean, 2000; Positano, Capri, Milan, Venice, New York, Chicago, Anguilla Caribbean, 2001: Positano, Capri, Milan, Venice, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Florida, Anguilla Caribbean, 2002: Positano, Milan, Venice, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Florida, Anguilla Caribbean, 2003: Positano, Capri, Milan, Venice, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Florida, Anguilla Caribbean, 2004: Positano, Milan, Venice, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Florida, Anguilla Caribbean, 2005: Positano, Milan, Venice, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Virginia, Florida, Anguilla Caribbean, 2006; Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Paestum, Positano 2007; Lugano, Cervinia, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Positano 2008; Fiuggi, Latina, Rome, Ravello, Capri 2009; Sorrento, Naples, Atlanta, Miami, Hackensack, Short Hills, Mc Lean, Bethesda, Positano, Milan 2010; Siena, Lecce, Portofino, New York, Positano, Hong Kong 2011; Positano, Sorrento, Ravello, Milan, New York 2012. Sorrento, Naples, Atlanta, Miami, Hackensack, Short Hills, Mc Lean, Bethesda, Positano, Milan 2013; Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Paestum, Positano 2014; Florida, Fiuggi, Latina, Positano, Ravello, New York 2015; Miami, Hackensack, Short Hills, Mc Lean, Bethesda, Positano, Milan 2016; Sorrento, Naples, Atlanta, Miami, Hackensack, Short Hills, Mc Lean, Bethesda, Positano, Milan 2017; Sorrento, Positano, Capri 2018; Sorrento, Positano, Capri 2019. Sorrento, Positano, Capri 2020. Sorrento, Positano, Capri 2021. Sorrento, Positano, Capri 2022. Sorrento, Cloister of San Francesco “Sorrento-Dana Point evocative seascapes” Positano, Capri 2023. Dana Point California USA 2024.
Di Viccaro has taken part in many group exhibitions and awards, including: Premio Arezzo Kilo d'oro, 1959; 2nd International Art Biennial, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1966; “Palme d'Argento” Medal from the Accademia di S.Andrea, Rome 1966; Landscape in Art. Rome 1966; Roman Autumn, Trinità dei Monti, Rome 1967; Via Margotta, Rome 1967; Nude in Art, Rome 1967; Macem Exhibition, Paris, 1972; Rome, Ex tempore Piazza Asti: first prize; Itri: first prize; Rocca di Papa: first prize; Fregane: gold medal; Bracciano: gold medal; Terracina: second prize; The Roman Biennale: silver plaque; Alatri: Golden Palette; Sora, Biennale: silver medal; Scauri: second prize; City of Capua: gold medal; Fiuggi: second prize; Parma: third prize. Many art critics have written and spoken about the artist; Renato Civello, Giovanni De Lucia, Oron Zecca, Giorgio Mancini, Luigi Zullo di Spilimbergo; Caterina Nagliatti, Romano Rossi, Franco Boretti, Osvaldo Amorosino, Antonio Bevilacqua, Giuseppe D'Amiata, Toni Bonavita, Giuseppe Nasello, Carlo Franza, Rossella Savarese.