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wandering around the female body
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Giorgio A. Ceccarelli was born in Torino in 1936. He obtained his degree in Architecture at the Politechnic of Milano in 1962. During the following years he furthered his studies both in Italy and abroad.
Following on the academic carrier he obtained the support of a Mellon Fellowship in order to attend postgraduate courses leading to the Master degrees in City Planning and Architecture at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Thereafter he started a long period of experience abroad to deepen his professional, academic and artistic growth.
He lived in England where for a decade he taught city planning at the Institute of Planning Studies of the University of Nottingham.
Beside the academic carrier he continued developing his artistic work maintaining an interest in painting, drawing and sculpting.
He exhibited his work in 1980 and 1981 at the "Summer Exhibition? held by the Department of Fine Arts - University of Nottingham.
Since 1982 he has been living in Rome running his own architectural practice. As an independent artist he works in his studio searching for the elusive psychological and utopian space where to achieve artistic and material substance resonating his personal horizon and human drama.
The dichotomy of artistic modes, abstract expressionist in most sculptures, verging into the iconographic on one side and the psycho-syntonic and explorative mode in the figurative femscape of the paintings is more superficial than substantial. The first is more introspective and deeply in contact with the unconscious, the dreamworld the intuitive inspiration and the purpose of artistic composition, confronted in strong dualism with the materic strength and weight of bronze and clay. The second leads into the amazing world of colours, the softness of the human form and flesh responding to gravity and moodiness with endless diversity. There is an artistic need to empathise with sensuality, through the sublimated interaction with the richness of the feminine promise, its ever-enduring mystery and enticement.
In 1994 he presented his work of drawings and sculptures in a personal show at the Trifalco Gallery in Rome.
He frequently visits the Slade Art School at the University College of London to attend the Live Painting Workshops.
Presently some of his bronzes are on show in the US at the Adib Kadure Gallery of Santa Fe, New Mexico, whilst drawings, paintings and etchings can be seen at the Galleria Il Torchio in Rome, Campo di Fiori. Finally samples of his work are available at the N�dor Gallery in the centre of Budapest.
Rome 1999.
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