Franco Dellerba Biography
Franco Dellerba is an artist born in Rutigliano in 1949 but currently lives and works in Capurso. Thanks to his works, he has traveled the world and many of them have been exhibited in international museums. Franco is an artist who prefers to let his works speak for themselves, without stars on social networks like Facebook or Instagram. With his works, he manages to create an impressive effect on the viewer, using symbols of Apulian popular culture but not only.
Dellerba's works are always colorful and cheerful, surprising and imaginative. What is most striking is the effect they have on our eyes. In his studio it seems to be in a playful world, full of birds, turtles, fish and plush toys, all together. His goal is to make us go back to our childhood, to remember when we were children and our eyes lit up when we saw the lights during the patronal festivals.
Dellerba uses the typical lights of the patronal festivals to conceptually enhance the folklore of his homeland: Puglia. It represents in an essential and translated way rocking horses, ladders, chairs and objects imprinted in his existential memory, which he adorns, in fact, with lights, depriving them of their real functionality.
In the series of animals carved in wood, with bright colours, present in the exhibition, Dellerba creates a substantially playful world, but also profound and intense, capable of generating reflection through mnemonic evocation. Ultimately, Franco Dellerba is an artist who knows how to excite and involve the public through his works, capable of making us return to savor the essence of our childhood and benefit from it again in adulthood.
