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Ugo Uva is the sculptor. He drafts his silhouettes with graphic and cromatic perfection. He paints the man and the woman, his universe, its centre, its boundaries.

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In the artistic world of Ugo Uva, people seem to live in a beautiful garden where the access is allowed only to poets, children, women in love: they interlace their tales in a metaphisical atmosphere, show their silhouettes of soft flesh, their flowered hair, their sights of precious stone, their primitive instruments, the offered innocence of sex, the ironic symbols of contest, red books and hippies ornaments, advancing the fashion of unisex which will dress the world of tomorrow.

(Ugo Moretti)

The sight is captured by the intense vibration of a line that, though enclosed with neat wisdom, seems unwilling to rest and in that line a color which looks having forgot  the material, that same material which it had previously suffered at length.

(G.A.Papini)

 The silhouettes, the horses, the seagulls, go beyond their material being, discovering a bizarre identity made of immaterial energy, mildness which soothes the anxiety and uncover a gentle proposal of rest.

To my father: "an expressive surrealist".

(Anna Carla Uva)

Excerpts from the introduction of Marcello Lupano for the exhibition at Forte Spagnolo, L'Aquila, April 1990.

"Ugo Uva... Why?
Many whys, indeed. Why to talk today of an artist not that young? why to talk of him as a new painter? why not to remember his life entirely dedicated to painting and sculpture? why his name is not in the catalogues of the last ten years? why to forget the approval he enjoyed with the many exhibitions held in the 60's, the prizes he won, the critiques he obtained? why this painter at the eve of a likely success abandoned any public appearance though keeping working hard for himself and few fans and collectors? The answer is easy, too easy for the addicts of a success-oriented life. He has deliberately closed his door to the public only to work the way he had to do. The free and self-contained spirit of the artist was not available to stand any commercial conditioning nor artificial promotion. He just put aside that kind of success that needs to be managed. He wants to manage his own work, as source of his success."