Elio Ferrara Biography
Elio Ferrara was born in Naples in 1945, he is a brilliant representative of the Neapolitan school of painting, a master of representation of everyday life in all its diversity and originality who knows how to notice and accentuate the beauty of small details. Elio Ferrara obtained professional education at the Academy of Fine Arts, then worked as a set designer at the San Carlo theater and at the San Ferdinando theater with Eduardo De Filippo, later collaborating with RAI and other mass media, he was one of the pioneers of the free broadcaster : in 1975, together with other painters and intellectuals, he created «Radio Napoli City» and «Radio Radicale», becoming a party activist and then candidate for the Chamber of Deputies. In the meantime, Ferrara continues its artistic activity which began in 1960 by adhering to the art movement of the new configuration and then turns to the traditions of its city, describing them with figurative language. Ferrara descends from rich lineage into artistic people. Among his relatives are the poet Alberto Ferrara, author of immortal Neapolitan songs, the actor Franco Sportelli, Giuseppina Goglia, magnificent painter, director of the Cerreto Sannita museum, whose works have been exhibited and worthily appreciated in important international sales ' auction and various museums around the world. The father of the painter Gennaro Ferrara was a talented violinist and conductor. The artistic tradition continues with Elio's son - Sandro Ferrara, magnificent illustrator and caricaturist, just as his grandson Alberto Ferrara also shows a strong interest in painting. Elio Ferrara's works are known and appreciated in Italy and in various parts of the world, but above all they are highly appreciated in France, the country most loved by the painter where he lived and painted for years. In Nice and Paris, in collaboration with L'Atelier Original and Galerie Du Chevalier, Ferrara produced subjects in truly Parisian style created with high-level technique; thus appear flea markets, open-air bars, bistros, overcrowded boulevards and nostalgic faces of local women and men endowed with unrepeatable charm.
