Carlo Parisi Biography
Professional painter - Born in Cava de' Tirreni (Salerno) on 4 March 1924. He has lived and worked in Milan since 191. He studied with the masters C. Tafuri, L. Della Rocca, G. Coppola. He has collaborated with important Italian and foreign publishing houses, including Paravia, Sei, Barbera, Gibbson of London, Talleda of Spain, Reproducta Company Inc. New York, Universo, Cioffi, Loffredo, Federico e Ardia, Piccoli, Garanzini, Sage, Alma, Egim il Grifo, Camilletti & C, Guerrini, Wenk etc. He collaborates simultaneously with various Italian and foreign art publishing houses for which he reproduces his works on canvas, silver and gold, which are distributed all over the world. He has exhibited in personal and collective exhibitions in various Italian and foreign cities with great Italian artists: Pietro Annigoni, Salvatore Fiume, Michele Cascella and others, in Holland, New York, Pennsylvania, Geneva, New Jersey, at Le Salon des Nations in Paris, at the Tiber Academy in Rome, Milan, Alessandria, Lecce, Vigevano, Portomaggiore, Salerno, Sesto San Giovanni, Rho, in the hall of the Municipal Library of Segrate (Milan), in Cava de' Tirreni, Crema, at the Art Center and Culture of Capriate San Gervasio (Bergamo). Invited to the Barbican Art Center of London; from the National Gallery of Naples (Florida); from Le Noveau Salon de Paris; from the CEIC to Los Angeles on the occasion of the Olympic Games and to Tokyo for the Tsukuba Expo 1985, to Stockolm 1987; in Seoul for the 1988 Olympic Games. Authoritative critics and journalists have studied his painting with considerable interest. Robert Muller, assistant to the Secretary General of the United Nations, wrote to him, on the occasion of the exhibition that Carlo Parisi set up at the Union Cardide Gallery in New York in 1978: "To Carlo Parisi, with full admiration for his stupendous art, one of the best examples of which is displayed in my office at the United Nations." G. Pagani Paolino on Scena lllustrata:"...Carlo Parisi is a great artist of our time, of world renown...". The American critic Sterling Macllhany, who also wrote for Salvator Dalì and Pietro Annigoni, praised his painting with great warmth. Invited to major art competitions, he has always been awarded first prizes, including the Golden Capitol, Marc'Aurelio, the Golden Oak, Botticelli's Venus, Oscar Italia 1982, first City of Scandicci Prize 1981, Renaissance Prize of the international Burckhardt Akademie, first international Giorgio Vasari prize 1989. He is a member of the Accademia Tiberina and of the major Italian Academies. He was proclaimed Painter of the Year 1978 / 79 in Milan and Artist of the Year in New York by the International Beaux Arts Inc. for the Performing Artists 1979 / 80. He is included in the major Italian and foreign art dictionaries and catalogs including Who's Who International Art. North West London University awarded him the HC Degree in Doctor of Art Discipline.
