Luciano de Liberato
Luciano de Liberato is an Italian painter.
Career
Liberato was born on 6 September 1947. began working in art in 1975, immediately attracting a lot of interest among the most important Italian art critics and historians. He was considered a young master and one of the great Italian colourist painting.Protagonist in the 1980s in European painting, De Liberato has had more than fifty solo exhibitions, including two in the prestigious "Art Basel", in 1983 and 1984. Since 1990, he has worked in his studio in the Italian province. All his work is created through research cycles.
Since 1994, he has used a unique and very personal language, as well as authentic poetry that avoids fads and mannerist trends.
In 2011, he was invited to the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. In 2012, one of his works, RED, was chosen as an image of the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, which gave to his work global renown.
In 2011, he decided to end all links with Italian galleries and has worked exclusively for international outlets.
Solo exhibitions selection
- 1978, Rome, Gallery Artivisive, curators Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco and Filiberto Menna
- 1983, Basel, International Art Fair Art Basel
- 1983, Bologna, Art Fair,
- 1984, Basel, International Art Fair Art Basel
- 1984, Rennes, Maison de la Culture, Galerie Andrè Malraux
- 1983/1988, Rome, Gallery Artivisive of Sylvia Franchi
- 1994, Bologna, Art Fair,
- 1994, Rome, Gallery La Borgognona, retrospective exhibition
- 1999, Milan, Bocconi University
- 2000, Pescara, Theater Gabriele D'Annunzio
- 2001, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Spazio Cultura "Nuovi itinerari" curator Milena Milani
- 2003/2002/2001/2000/1999, Rome, Andrè Gallery, Via Giulia
- 2011, Cesena, Ridotto Palace, Modern Art Gallery, Anthology
- 2012, New York City, Lincoln Center
Institutional group exhibitions
- 1975, Francavilla al Mare, XXIX Michetti Prize
- 1976, Francavilla al Mare, XXX Michetti Prize
- 1977, Francavilla al Mare, XXXI Michetti Prize
- 1980, National Bolaffi Catalog, volume II, Segnalati per la pittura
- 1983, Francavilla al Mare, XXXVI Michetti Prize
- 1987, Comune di Pescara
- 1987, L'Aquila Alternative Attuali, edition by Enrico Crispolti
- 1998, Artivisive in progress, Rome, Art History, curators Domenico Amoroso, Mirella Bentivoglio, Fabrizio Crisafulli, Ed. Christengraf
- 1999, Giuseppe Rosato, Quei giovani amici pittori edition by Nocciano museum, essays
- 2002, Termoli Prize
- 2011, Sassoferrato, 61^ International Art Exhibition G. B. Salvi, Mostra
- 2011, Pescara, Aurum Museum, Italy Pavilion, Venice Biennale
- 2013, XLVI Prize Vasto
- 2015, L'Aquila, Fibbioni Palace, ''The Making of, artists at work in tv''