Vittorio Emanuele Biography
Vittorio Emanuele was born in Lentini in 1959 and began painting at a very young age. He began his training at the Brera Art School and continued his study of the theory of vision and chromatic scales with master Alvaro Monnini. He also followed painting and figurative art courses with the painter Micol De Palma and studied at the Castello Sforzesco School of Art in Milan under the guidance of master Luigi Timoncini. He continues his training with courses on 20th century Italian engraving at the Catholic University of Milan with Professor Paolo Bellini, as well as with international chalcography courses at the Raffaello Academy of Urbino.
Emanuele's artistic experience began as an illustrator and continued as a painter and engraver. He taught at the Liceo Artistico del Castello Sforzesco from 1989 to 2001 and currently teaches at various Civic Schools and Cultural Centers. He has held three solo exhibitions at the Ponte Rosso Gallery, where he has been exhibiting since 1998.
Emanuele has developed his own approach to painting, unique and deliberately not very trendy, which he has refined over the years with clear determination. He explored the conceptual implications of the technique and rediscovered the broad spectrum of issues connected to it, avoiding both the unnecessary display of mastery and the devaluation of current postmodernity. More importantly, it asks painting to return to its original necessity in which seeing/being seen is the conceptual epicenter, not just a starting tool.
Emanuele's paintings are mainly oils with a romantic flavour, with subjects ranging from vases of flowers, poppies, roses and irises in Caravaggio style, to girls playing, still lifes with colored fruits, dilapidated buildings, female nudes and Baroque-style altars Sicilian highlighted by lemons with falling leaves. His still lifes are not just portraits of objects but rather a conceptual and visual thought process accompanied by modern techniques that closely resemble photographic reproduction.
His works, made up of around thirty small and medium-sized paintings, are found in the same rooms where Novello's drawings were exhibited.
