Santo Tomaino Biography
Santo Tomaino (1954 - ) Having moved to Turin, where he studied and became a teacher at the art high school, he held numerous exhibitions, including Epic Paintings at the Carlo Bilotti Museum in Rome. On the occasion of other solo exhibitions, the catalogs were edited by Enrico Crispolti. After a "neo-expressionist" start, which was followed in the second half of the seventies by a period of less involvement in pictorial activity, starting from 1983 Tomaino was among those artists who were the first to return to painting after the spread of installations and art conceptual. In a further, more visionary artistic phase, the representation of reality became epic and spectacular, but at the same time cultured and allusive. In Tomaino's painting, references to the outside world are intertwined with the figures of memory, with elements linked to the psychological condition and that constellation of myths and archetypes that make up the history of man. In Italy and abroad he has exhibited in personal and collective exhibitions at Marco Noire, Turin, Galleria La Bussola, Turin, Galleria Aroma, Berlin, Palazzo dei Priori, Perugia, Castello di San Giusto, Trieste, Romberg Arte Contemporanea, Latina, Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence and many others.
