Bartolomeo Gatto Biography
Bartolomeo Gatto (1938 – 2021) born in the Cilento town of Moio della Civitella, in the province of Salerno, trained in Rome and Milan, studying at the Brera Academy. Winner of European awards such as Les Artes en Europe, he traveled around the continent meeting great figures from the world of art and culture, from Salvador Dalì to Giorgio de Chirico. In 1970 he began the publication of the monthly Il Cigno and the activity of the contemporary art gallery of the same name, which he founded with his wife and collaborator Adele De Santis in Milan. After a large traveling exhibition organized in 1971 by Luis Pollhammer between Germany and Switzerland, in 1978 he discovered Sardinia, which fascinated him and which appeared for a long time in his works. During his long career, Gatto planned and created over 200 personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including those at the National Archaeological Museum of Paestum, at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, at the Villa Litta in Lainate, at the Italian Institutes of Culture in New York, San Francisco and Stuttgart, and at Palazzo Barberini in Rome.
