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NERONE – solo exhibition – EXTENDED

Nerone is a painter, sculptor, writer, poet and musician. Autodidact, he started painting at the age of thirty.

Nerone showed his talent in art immediately, showing an explosive
personality and creation without limitation. Nerone releases his truest
feeling through glowing color from his turbulent memory, great skills
and experiences, unburden about love…

His mentor, Antonio Ligabue, was one of the most important Naive artist of the 20th century.

Being the oldest of seven children who grew up in poverty with
an alcoholic and abusive father; later also becoming that alcoholic, but
then recovered from the disease; and day by day losing a part of his
wife, the big love of his life, to the invasive Alzheimer’s disease,
until after almost 14 years of suffering she passed away in the autumn
of 2012.

Seeing Nerone’s paintings, you’ll be surprised by his passion
and desire for art–never tire to aint. Self-taught, his soul is out of
rules or movement of school. It’s also not an easy job for critics being
contradicted to comment his works. Nerone follows maters path, but
rebel the definition from others. “Art should be a way of expression but
not content on book.”

As time went by, Nerone’s paintings evolved. From the end of the
nineties onward, Nerone takes a more abstract direction, pursuing a new
creative freedom. The creation of each and every one of his artworks is
and always will be a way to release deep-rooted emotions which stir up
inside, and are best let out through this surreal ability of creation
that god has given him. His abstract paintings reveal, recall and
release experiences of his life, so as his own–its vivid colour and the
way of floating, the strong emotions behind these bellicose and
undeniable level of expressive potential.
Initially each canvas was focused on life; they were dominated
by the enchantment of pure, decisive and intense oil colours. From the
random and powerful oil on canvas paintings, Nerone presents a series of
works that bring the viewers into his inner full of artistic and
grateful thinking of god that transferred the pain and sufferance in
life. “… his magmatic, colourful contortions and kaleidoscopic, almost
mosaic compositions speak of love.” best described his abstract works.

Nerone never wastes any second creating, that’s how he
communicates and make up for himself from the past memories. “Blessed is
he whose fame does not outshine his truth.” This untamed, rebellious
artist might prison himself in his works. However, his spirit never
compromises to fate, never afraid to speak of love! Nerone’s warrior
spirit always roars. It never sleeps.

Nerone had hold exhibitions around the world including Italy,
Germany, USA and Canada. Some recognized pieces are held in multiple
public collection such as Vaticano Museum in Italy, Contemporary Art
Collection of the Quirinale in Italy, National Children’s Museum in USA.

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