Bernardo Siciliano Biography
Bernardo Siciliano (1969 - ) was born in Rome in 1969. He began painting as a child and in 1986 he held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Carlo Virgilio in Rome. There he exhibits a collection of pastel paintings on paper which are described by Attilio Bertolucci in the introduction to the catalog as "the lands of Mediterranean colours, light as the dust lost from the wings of butterflies". Siciliano exhibited a series of Roman landscape paintings in Roberto Tassi's 1991 solo exhibition in Rome at the Galleria Il Gabbiano. Siciliano's commitment to painting the truth is evident in these works, which are supported by "taut, worked, sincere" materials (Roberto Taxi).
The focus of Marisa Volpi's exhibition in Rome in 1993 is above all on portraits, and the same year he was invited to the Palazzo delle Esposizioni for the collective exhibition Young Artists IV. Italian Landscapes (Florence, Palazzo degli Affari 1994) and Contemporary Masterpieces (Perugia, Rocca di Umbertine 1994). These are two examples of group exhibitions from this period. Bernardo Siciliano moved to New York in 1996, fell in love with the light of the city and began painting the car parks and industrial buildings overlooking the river: visions of the American metropolis that change with the seasons and the time of day. Not only the XXI Quadrennial Italia 1950-1990 (Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni 1996), From Fattori to Burri, curated by Marco Goldin (Conegliano, 1996), but also other personal and collective exhibitions are part of his ongoing exhibition program in Italy.
