Giorgio Ortona Biography
Giorgio Ortona (1960 - ) was born in Tripoli in 1960. He trained in Rome and Cadiz, where he attended the international painting course held by his teacher Antonio Lopez Garcia. His works have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions. Several paintings belong to public museums and private collections (Macro of Rome, Michetti Museum of Francavilla al Mare, Municipal Art Gallery of Forlì, Municipal Art Gallery of Sulmona, Cavallini Sgarbi Foundation, Becchetti Collection). He lives and works in Rome. Figurative and realist painter with a desire for abstraction, he paints urban landscapes, portraits of composed human figures, still lifes, whose main poetic trait is incompleteness: these are works that seem on the verge of falling apart, for example leaving large areas indefinite in color (yellow, white, grey) which contrast the hyper-realism of the image, and which do not aim to reproduce reality but express an interior dimension. Among his works: the series of oil on panel portraits of Padre (2002-03) and Sidney (2009-10); the series of still lifes in oil on canvas Sacchi (1994-2012); and landscapes, always in oil, Cantiere Pantanella (1999; MACRO collection), La tangenziale (2001), Edificio messinese (2007), Appio Latino (2010), the series Le palazzine di Roma (2010-11), Centocelle (2011 ). In 2011 he participated in the 54th Venice Biennale.
