Andrea Esposito
Andrea Esposito was born in 1981 in Rimini, Italy. At the age of three he moved to Como with his family to live there until the age of 20. Como is a city famous all over the world for the enchanting beauty of its lake and its mountains. These beautiful landscapes will be constantly under his eyes for years and years.
At the age of 8, a piano appeared at home, but his twin brother was the first to take an interest in it and follow his studies of classical piano at the conservatory. Andrea has felt a great attraction throughout his life for classical music, like a nostalgia for a past life dedicated to classical composition. Instead, drawing became his first true expressive form of art.
As a child he was always a great observer of reality; everything enchanted him like a motionless spectacle: people, objects, landscapes … Since the age of 10 he has been drawing small objects on an album that attracted his attention.
At 13 he began to copy Renaissance figures and realized he had a very strong passion for the human figure. From there, the pleasure of studying the copy of great masters followed him over the years, until today. The artistic activity however was not at the center of his interests until the age of 17 when oil painting arrived. It was an art professor that motivated him to try painting, not included in the school program. He gave him a wooden table of an old turner telling him to try to paint a figure. He decided to do a self-portrait. It was the very first of a series of countless self-portraits that the artist made over the years, always on his birthday, to spend a moment of connection with himself. After a few weeks of work, he brought the painting to the professor who, surprised by the success of the painting, told him: “You almost made me take a hit!”
A few years later he went through a period of artistic experimentation, trying a more expressionist pictorial style, up to abstract art. But not satisfied with the results, so easy and devoid of a profound sense, he decided to enroll in the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna to learn more about painting techniques. The transfer to Bologna marked important encounters for the artist in the fields of art, music and literature, the three great passions that followed him throughout his life. In the academy he learned above all, the artistic anatomy, and for the rest, it was the continuous visits to the art gallery in Bologna that taught him the technique of the great Baroque masters, such as Guido Reni, Guercino, Cagnacci.
In 2006 the academic period ended and he continued his pictorial activity remaining in Bologna. It was a period of intense studies, exhibitions, important knowledge, travel and readings. After a period spent in Como and then in Spain and France, he moved to his hometown of Rimini, where he currently still lives and paints in his new art studio.
After an intense study of the masters of the past, in particular, the Italian Baroque, the nineteenth-century symbolist and surrealism, he developed his original style called “Magic Realism.” A fusion between the beauty of reality, told with the tools of classical painting combined with the magical element of surrealism. The real seems to be a stage of often invisible mysterious forces. The technique of realism is used to be able to express in the simplest and clearest language possible the deepest reality that loves to hide. Surrealism helps us to access this unknown place, to reveal the magical beauty of reality.
Andrea Esposito’s art gives us transcendental moments where dreams and reality are mixed together. Where the subliminal impact is far deeper than one can perceive with the naked eye as it is only understood by the heart. Andrea gives us a beautiful innocence in each of his paintings that detonates our senses and we understand that everything is about now. A moment. He shows us a nakedness not only of human bodies, but also of souls, delving into what is most sacred within us. Andrea, through his paintings gives us wings to fly, even if just temporarily.
Education
Academy of Art, Bologna
School of Art, Fausto Melotti, Como
Esposizioni – Exhibitions
2021 “Imagines”, Collective, Cultural Promotion Center, Andria (Bari)
2021 “Gradara Contemporanea”, Urban Collective, Art – Preview, Gradara
2021 “Piccole grandi opere”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2020 “Ritrovarsi nelle visioni”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2020 “Art Parma Fair”, Galleria delle Visioni
2019 “Rèalitè et Revè”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2019 “L’anima del paesaggio”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2019 “Figure in posa”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2018 “Visionaria”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2018 “Piccole Visioni”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2017 “ArteVicenza”, ArtFair, Galleria delle Visioni
2017 “ArteCremona”, ArtFair, Galleria delle Visioni
2017 “Paesaggi”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2016 “Costellazioni, 12 artisti, 12 segni”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2015 “ArtFair Piacenza”, Galleria delle Visioni
2015 “Visioni erotiche”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2015 “Arte energia dell’immaginario”, Milano Expo 2015
2013 “Il canto di Alice”, Solo Exhibition, Spazio Natta, Como
2013 “Bocca di rosa”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2013 “Sogni su tela”, Collective, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
2011 “Bellezze”, Personale, “Panedivino”, Pieve di Cento (FE)
2011 “Proposte”, Collective, Adelfia (BA)
2011 “Il Monte Analogo”, Workshop – Exhibition, San Lorenzo in Banale (Trento)
2011 “Art Nouveaux Trèsor”, Collective, Galleria La Piccola, Bologna
2011 “Attimi di vita”, Collective, Galleria la Piccola, Bologna
2010 “Ritratti”, Solo Exhibition, Maurizio Nobile Art Gallery, Bologna
2008 “Segni”, Collective, Grafique Art Gallery, Bologna
2007 Agazzani, Alberto, Il Labirinto di Babele, in ‘Antologia della Figurazione contemporanea.
Italia’: “Le ultime generazioni 3”, Skira Editore, Milano
2007 “Il teatro di Hypnos e Thanatos”, Collective, Centro di Promozione culturale ”Le Muse”,
Andria (BA)
2007 “Anima”, Collective, Modena
2006 “Mascherando”, Collective, Foyer Teatro Galli , Rimini
2004 “Insieme”, Collective, Chaterdral il Paradisino, Modena
2002 “Iconica”, Collective, Tower of Cento (FE)
2000 “Figure”, Collective, Space Natta, Como
- March 6, 2022
