Giacinto Cerone Biography
Giacinto Cerone was born in Melfi on 18 April 1957. He attended the Melfi art high school, architecture section in 1971, dedicating much of his time to life drawing. In 1975, he received his artistic high school diploma. He then decided to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in October 1975, following the sculpture course. During his years at the Academy, Cerone attended special courses in foundry, photography, theory of form, various sculpture techniques and theory of visual perception, held by professionals in the sector such as Nato Frascà. In 1979, Cerone finished his studies at the Academy with a thesis on Vincent Van Gogh for the Art History course taught by Cesare Vivaldi.
Subsequently, in 1981, Cerone went to the international graphic art studio “L'Arco” in Rome with Nato Frascà to meet Giuseppe Appella. In March 1983, he was called back to Rome for the exhibition “Checkmate a Casaidea” at the Rome Fair. In the summer of the same year, Giuseppe Appella took him to Castronuovo Sant'Andrea (PZ) where he held his first solo show entitled “Ten sculptures and ten jazz motifs by Giacinto Cerone” inside the ancient Castle. On this occasion, he exhibited his first copper sculptures. In 1984 he moved permanently to Rome and in October 1985 he married Elena Cavallo.
Since 1986, he began working in the studio in vicolo del Bologna, 32 in Trastevere. In 1987, he held his solo exhibition at the Hobelix Cultural Association in Messina and made his first two ceramics (Marsupio and Martini) in a small kiln in Vicolo del Moro. In 1993, he received an invitation from Maurizio Corraini to produce ceramics at Davide Servadei's Bottega Gatti in Faenza (RA). In March of the same year, he started working with Valentina Bonomo at her gallery and held his first major Roman solo show entitled “Aiaram” at the gallery in Piazza Santa Apollonia. In this period, he met the writer and art historian Mario Quesada, the collector Andrea Franchi and the poet Patrizia Cavalli. In 1996, Cerone's work expanded: his ceramic works became more complex, with the use of lace on ceramics and the making of plaster works without the need to build a mold. He then exhibited his second horizontal work in Via degli Artisti, Associazione cultural club of Palazzo Giovine in Turin and prepared for his first solo exhibition abroad at the David Gill Galleries in London, an exhibition curated and organized by Valentina Bonomo. Cerone was also passionate about poetry, and often dedicated his works to the great poets in collaboration with his pupil and assistant Valerio Ricci. In 2001, he dedicated his exhibition in Mantua “Tripoli” to his father. Cerone died in Rome in 2004.
