Carmelo Sammartino
lives and works in Italy:
Strada Bardellona, 18
46040
Birbesi di Guidizzolo (MN)
tel 0376.847076
cell. 349.8027894
fax
E-mail: melus@iol.it
CARMELO SAMMARTINO
Painter, engraver, constructionalist and visual arts operator. His style could be termed figurative, informal or multimaterial. Studied Pedagogy at Rome University and Psychology at Padua University and organised educational courses in the visual arts. He then went on to study Engraving and the History of Art at the Brescia School of Fine Art. Has illustrated magazines, front covers, and research projects as well as exhibiting widely in Italy and abroad.
“Carmelo Sammartino’s painting is real painting. It plainly and simply transmits us its poetic message… He captures our attention and knows how to direct it to concentrate on that precise point of the painting which he has chosen. He creates a centre of interest and, with his immediate and direct visual language, knocks us out.
Sammartino’s
painting is direct, concrete, balanced, and not elusive. There are no allusions,
things that are announced and not said or left to chance. Everything is explicit
with no simulation. Genuine. Everything has been taken into consideration,
planned, already verified…”.
1971
- Young artists of the F. Juvara, Palermo.
1976
- Choreographies for theatre-dances, I hit the Centre
S. Chiara and Blond Theatre, Palermo.
1978
– Dossier photography "Church
and Aid to the Minors" Portici Ricordi, Palermo.
- " First Art Carnival " in the quarter
Ballarò with the boys of the
institute Don
Orione
of Montepellegrino (PA).
1979
- He shows photographic Childhood and
Institutions, Party
of the Unity, Villa Giulia, Palermo.
1980
- Biennial Suzzara Art VII (MN), on
invitation of the Provincial Mantova
Administration.
- I Reward National Borgoforte for the drawing.
- I Reward San Matteo for graphics.
1983
- Art shop window for OMSA, Carpenedolo.
1986
- I Reward Parma town for the colours
to water.
- I Reward Critical Breno
town in
Valcamonica for graphics.
- Special Prize of the Jury
to the XI
with Contest
International Modenarte for the
graphics and
the sculpture.
1987
- Prints
works,
Salt of the Press,
Brescia.
1997
- Extemporaneous pictorial,
ex Colony
Rosmini, Triscina di Selinunte (TP).
1998
- Prize Torre Strozzi,
Perugia/Modena
for the Art and Nature -Art and Holy sections.
Expository room of Parlesca.
- Space Giacobbe, Milan.
- Linea 70 Gallery, Verona.
- A. Battaglia Gallery, Milan Brera.
- Bertrand Kass Gallery, Innsbruck,
with the sponsorship of the
Italian Institute of
Culture in Austria.
- Verità Poeta Palace,
Verona,
with the sponsorship from
the Provincial Company
of
the Tourism of Verona.
- Harrow Arts Centre, London.
- Art Jonction, Nizza.
- Journalists'
Circle, San Pietroburgo.
- Ducale Palace, Mantova:
Personal
show in the world of the Review
"the contemporary art in the ancient residences"
with the sponsorship of the Council, MN Province and Lombardy Area.
- Biennial international of Contemporary Art,
“Fortezza da Basso", Florence ".
Selected for the Italy pavilion.
With
the sponsorships of Tuscan Area, Province and Council
of
Florence, Turist Promotion Company, Railways of State,
Ministry
of the Foreign Business.
2000:
texts
of "When the summer becomes poetry",
ex
Colony Rosmini, Triscina di Selinunte (TP).
-
F@bbric@ -
Art exhibition & happening, Alzate Brianza (Como).
of his work they wrote:
Mattia
Accardi, Paolo Barrile,
Francesco Chinnici, Luciano Lepri, Andrea
Narduzzi, Chiara Noemi Sammartino, Giulia Sillato.
expressions and
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