VITO STRAMAGLIA EXHIBITION

VITO STRAMAGLIA-ITALIAN ARTIST

BIO

Even if Vito has received a training in order to become a painter, strangely he has developed a “love

and hate” relationship with the paint. At some point in his adolescence this “special” relationship

led him to prefer the way of competitive sports, becoming professional boxer. When he was

seriously thinking about an athletic career, he received a strong impulse to paint and  complete his

art studies.  Vito intensively studied the great masters of the past and through the avant-gardes and

next currents of artistic experimentation, thanks to its constant curiosity about the spiritual world,

comes to his personal vision of life, inspired by quantum physics, and to the illusion of the

existence form, translating it with his painting. In his paintings the form is crushed until it is lost in

the “ALL”, making the subject a pretext preferring through excessive pictorial material, the

informal technical.

EDUCATION

Degree in Master of arts at  ARTISTIC HIGH SCHOOL “PINOPASCALI” in Bari (Puglia, Italy)

1996

Degree with honors in Fine Arts “curriculum painting” at ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN BARI

2006

Master of postgraduate HIGHER ARTISTIC TRAINING at FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART

2007-2009-Specialization in disegnative and pictorial techniques used in French Academies in the

nineteenth century

ARTIST STATEMENT

 “I think that the work that comes out of my hands is the result of something bigger than me and

amazes me when I look at it. I’m just a performer. I hope these works convey to the world what

they transmit to me:  the beauty of life, where nothing can be explained, and everything is in

balance; my mission is understanding the divine messages and wedging them into the canvas.

Each artwork is a mirror of whoever looks at it,

Each of us can understand our own journey in a profound way.

When I paint, the only certainty is that I am not using the mind, but the heart.  Then the rationality

disappears and gives way to introspection, and then the soul chooses the subjects and the manner of

representing them.”  

Stramaglia employs thickly applied, impasto painting, with a liberal integration of dramatic black.

His representation of the everyday is elevated to the extraordinary through boldly elegant technique.

He uses “the very dark to bring out the light. I learned this from the great Old Masters of the past.

My characters are undefined because I think that form is just an invention of rationality and,

instead, we are all connected to each other.”

Stramaglia comes from a family of Italian artists, but he was not always convinced it was his

calling.  “In fact, when I was a child, I refused the art. For many years, I was a professional boxer,

but suddenly, the painting was shouting too loudly, and I had to give it a hearing. I left boxing and

now I’m a full-time painter and I have no regrets.’’

Stramaglia earned degrees from Academy of Fine Arts, Bari, and Florence Academy of Art. He has

participated in exhibitions throughout Italy, as well as Germany, Austria, England and the US.

COLLECTIONS & CURRENT

Stramaglia’s work can be found in many exclusive public and private collections.  He currently

resides in Toronto,Canada.