Eduardo Palumbo Biography
Eduardo Palumbo (1932 - 2018) was a well-known Neapolitan abstractionist, Palumbo was 86 years old and had been active in the capital since 1961. The artist was a student of Emilio Notte at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. His classmates also achieved notoriety, among others Lucio Del Pezzo, Carmine Di Ruggiero, Gianni Pisani. Maestro Notte had been a futurist in Florence and Milan; he had met Boccioni, was a friend of Carrà and Sironi. From these experiences Palumbo derived the trait that distinguished him and which led critics to see in his painting a substantial and successful attempt at transposing Futurism into the contemporary. Many of the major critics and scholars wrote about Eduardo Palumbo: from Carlo Belli (the 'father' of Italian Abstractionism of the 1930s) to Luciano Caramel, from Rosario Assunto, to Claudio Strinati and Giovanni Carandente, from Luca Beatrice to Marco Tonelli and all ' abstractionist Piero Dorazio, his friend. Palumbo participated in the XIV Quadrennial of Rome (2005) and the great anthological exhibition set up in the Royal Palace of Caserta (2009). But other anthologies also attracted attention, such as those presented in the sixteenth-century Castle of L'Aquila (2000) and in Palazzo Loffredo in Potenza (2002). He also participated in the exhibition Twenty-seven artists and a magazine. The author covers of the Mass Media magazine, in the National Gallery of Modern Art (2014). Palumbo's works are found at the MACRO in Rome, in the Chamber of Deputies, in the Art Collection of the Farnesina. One of his mosaics – 12 meters long – is in the Lucio Sestio Station of the Roman Metro.
