It is called “young Roman artists in Malta - Hypostasis” the exhibition organized by italiani.it, with the patronage of Roma Capitale, Department of Culture; Italian Cultural Institute in Valletta, Cultural Office of the Italian Embassy in Malta - body of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; Italian Confederation of the Union of Intellectual Professions - patron of the Rome Art Week. In collaboration with: CESC - European Center for Cultural Studies which for years has been dealing with communication and dissemination of Italian culture at an international level; QuiMalta.eu - technical partner. The exhibition will take place at the Dante Alighieri Society of Malta on May 25 in Valletta.
Who are i young Roman artists?
The "young Roman artists in Malta" who will exhibit their works in Valletta are: Giorgia Grassi, Marcello del Prato, Francesco Micati, Issachar, Giovanni Lo Castro, Claudia Montesi, Pierre Peroncini. Let's get to know our artists more closely!
Giorgia Grassi, born in Rome in 97, she approaches painting due to a strong need for relief on a psychological level. Through the act of painting she discovers the power of art as a means of self-therapy and as an introspective tool. Over the years she experiments with different styles and techniques independently and through them she discovers herself. For the exhibition in Valletta at the Dante Alighieri Society she wanted to get involved once again by discovering a new method of painting with oil in order to interpret her emotions of the last months.
Francesco Misti, born in Rome in '99, approaches painting with a ritual, primitive approach, which in 2020 generates the series "ancient testimonies" and "ordered chaos". In the artist's research the lens is focused on the rediscovery of the human matrix understood as origin and on the study of the forms that hide in the apparent formlessness of nature. In his works the evolution that matter undergoes in the relationship between space and time, fractal geometry and physics is analyzed. The "manifestations" come to life on the pictorial surface as fluids and sediments.
John Lo Castro, born in Rome in 1997. He graduated cum laude in 2020 from RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts). Currently he studies and works in Milan, where he attends the department of new technologies in Brera. Lo Castro's work focuses on the perceptual possibilities of the image. Relying on his own personal experience and the events of his life, he permeates his vision with an emotional and psychological component. The images he represents arise from an exercise in overlapping not only ideological, but also formal, connecting the digital language with the analogue in the choice of materials and colors, playing on complementary contrasts. The image as a language has led Lo Castro to explore and contaminate traditional iconographic motifs with an imaginary linked to contemporary aesthetics, tying together different mediums, such as video, installations, painting and photography. His installations connect the work and the viewer with the surrounding environment, breaking the direct vision, exploring the multiplicity of points of view. In his experience he collects exhibitions both in Italy and in some of the most important European capitals, such as Berlin, Kiev, Sofia and Budapest.
Marcello del Prato, was born in Rome in 1997. His path of discovery of painting begins as a child for an instinctive necessity and continues as a self-taught experimenting various figurative techniques. His main interest is directed towards the human figure, which he represents externally and internally.
Valerio Miraglia in art issachar, Roman, began at a very young age and evolved over the years to formalize in 2018. His paintings represent the sense of entrapment of this artistic sensitivity trapped inside him like a prison from which the only escape is creation. The same creation that will be chewed, rotted, and finally demolished by time and by a world that seems to want to sabotage any impulse of expression that is not endorsed by his mechanisms, less and less human and more and more commercial.
Claudia Montesi was born in Rome in 1999 from an Italian-Latin American family. She starts shooting at the young age of 10 to interpret and express through images what she cannot explain in words. For the artist this language represents a necessity, an impulse, a vital instinct. The search for fantasy and the dream in everyday reality are the gravitational center around which her vision revolves. Authenticity lies in the detail: drawing inspiration from this poetic, she focuses on the composition and post-production of the shots, which appear to the viewer as “visual and conceptual matryoshkas”. The classical humanistic training on the one hand, and the family context on the other, contribute to forming the profile of a multifaceted artist who places the context in which she gravitates at the center of her vision.
Andrea Bernardini, aka Pierre Peroncini was born in Pisa in 2000. He is an artist who since 2018 grafted his study on the line in pictorial matter. The metaphysical space that are his canvases welcomes an ethereal poetics built on physical gestures as closed as they are free, on privations and veiling of chromatic and material sediments.
