Giorgio De Cesario…
Architect, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, born in Matino (The) New Year’s Day 1956.
Since 1989 professor of design at the Art Institute of Grottaglie (Ta). A Matino attended the local school, wonderful teachers immediately for his exceptional artistic skills in creating works that demonstrates youth plaster, ceramic, canvas and other media, but especially taking care of the illustrations in school newspapers becomes the greatest entertainer.
However, his experiences with in-depth studies are still in every field of art.
And his works become such a compendium of everything: his “models” and his “dummies” would never have existed without its Roman past in the design and commercial art, and still, his background and his doodles full of dazzling colors, and captivating at the same time,would never hit our eyes without his research and his experiments in the paintings, and what about the sinuous forms? The engraving techniques learned in Urbino, in two years of intense activity and in a climate of raffaelliani studies, have certainly contributed totheir “lightness”. At the same time the artist has work experience in many printing companies and in 1978 opened in Matino (Lecce) on his studio where he worked on graphics, design, architecture, but where, in particular, continues to cultivate his love of art, studying techniques and new subjects for his paintings and his sculture.E ‘in these years of research, after aparticularly enlightening dream, as he himself says, he manages to develop his personal style of painting abandoning the realism of Caravaggio years precedenti.Uno new style so characters with faces made of clay which run on a background color more vivid, almost
represent, in any medium, dream reality that the artist had lived in that famous night vision: “… figures stolen from caves … disturbing characters arise, sad and dignified, timidly imploring help
and solidarity “(Maddalena Caruso).
Paintings, engravings, sculptures follow in this desire to experience more and more new media and new sensations espimere the world of current that is related to the philosophy and history.
In the ’80s, and continued his artistic career in these years, his experience is further enriched through continuous world travels that bring him into contact with different cultures and peoples. The frugal life in Eastern Europe and the opulence of Corsica became a stimulus European to explore the inner man that is immediately confronted with the sunny African life.
And therefore the wanderings in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal and the beloved islands of Cape Verde, where new report that he will then color impressions on canvas 90s along with plastic shapes and
in the light of those places that have impressed him so much. With the new millennium, the artist
increases its popularity through the Internet, through which the world comes to know his work as evidenced by the continuous appreciation from countries lontani.Attualmente Giorgio De Cesario in Gallipoli lives and works in his house-museum, Maritati Villa De Cesario he wisely renovated and expanded. It ‘a great and spectacular container of art called “The House of Artists,” an ultra-modern building, characterized by a certain eclecticism of styles a little and a little orientalMediterranean, however, strongly innovative, which suits well with the surrounding urban landscape.
In addition to house the permanent exhibition of ‘artist, the House-Museum of about 1,000 square meters, is used to house temporary exhibitions, book presentations, concerts and theatrical performances and is also equipped to accommodate with the formula of the B. & b. artists and art lovers from around the world.