Carlo Volpicella was born in Pescara in 1962.
He attended the Art Institute of Pescara, immediately showing a particular interest in surrealist painting and poetry.
He graduated as an Art Master in 1980 and began a path of graphic research using ink colors, collages, tempera and creating posters for musical groups and events of various kinds.
He approached photography, after a few years of study and experimentation as a self-taught, and at the same time began attending art galleries in Pescara, participating in collective exhibitions.
In the literary field, he participated in several national poetry competitions where he collected many publications in unpublished magazines.
His great interest in the pictorial style of artists such as Picasso, Dalì, Ernst and Masson (above all) pushed him to study color and the value of the sign, (approaching the philosophy of Zen), under the guidance of local art masters and various artists.
The frequentation of some masters of Castelli, a famous town for its ceramic tradition in the province of Teramo, gives rise, in 1996, to a training path through the colors for cold ceramics, which will lead him to create a series of works characterized by a “very violent sign”, which will be found in his paintings starting from 2003, a sign of an artistic turning point, which will convince him to undertake a stylistic path inspired by the informal-conceptual model.
A painful loss, emotionally managed in a completely instinctive way, pushes him to close himself in an absolute interiority for some years, which will lead him to compose poems whose foundations emerge from the depths of solitude.
From this sublime silence, the frenetic desire to communicate and to “scratch the world” is born (or reborn), through the elaboration of color on canvas, wood, cardboard; in fact, it is precisely from this moment of strong volitional drive (2003), that we witness a succession of new creative works, and the resumption of the fascinating journey of art exhibitions and conferences.
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