Nicola Masuottolo

My name is Nicola Masuottolo, I was born in 1964 in Naples (Italy) and I’ve been painting since I was 10 years old. I started painting landscapes and views of the place where I live (the Phlaegrean Fields) first oil painting and then acrylic painting, but in the last period, after an exhibition in a roman archeological bookstore on the theme “The Cyclops”, I started with painting human figures modifying my technique in search of a major expressive liberty.
The last years output, exclusively oil paintings and totally different from the previous one, is a kaleidoscope of colours, texts, faces, figures and emotions, which have in common the telling of everyday life, the little and big protagonists of the period, the never solved or bad solved problems of world. An old but always topical voyage between East and West, which tries to persuade the conscience to reflect above cultures which, going through places, transform themselves and at the same time transform mysteriously the men, making them reflect on the necessity to understand their story and the humanity’s story. Painting can be a means to understand and I paint for many reasons. I paint to understand, I paint for myself, to create a social or political point of view, I pai...

SOLO SHOWS
1a Rassegna Flegrea Arte e Spettacolo - Castello Aragonese di Baia - luglio 1992
ZonArte: Spazio IPO/TESI - P.zza Bellini NA - 17 giugno>20 luglio 1995
Zona di confine - “da Fefé” - Casevecchie - Bacoli NA - aprile>giugno 1997
Mari e Muri - “da Fefé” - Casevecchie - Bacoli NA - giugno>settem. 1998
Cràstule - “da Fefé” - Casevecchie - Bacoli NA - febbraio>aprile 2002
Japanismo - Vigneto Storico Mirabella - Pozzuoli NA - 25 apr.>1°mag. 2007
Icona rotta - Bacoli Art Gallery - Bacoli NA - 19 gennaio>1°febbraio 2008
Ciclopi - Hotel King - Fiuggi FR - 7>10 ottobre 2009
Libreria Archeologica - Roma - 15 ottobre>31 dic. 2009
Last Works 2010 - “da Fefé” - Casevecchie - Bacoli NA - 21 febbraio>21 marzo 2010
Oil 2010 - Ristorante “da Caliendo” - Bacoli NA - nov. 2010>marzo 2011
Occupy Wall Street/Occupy Rome - Vineria del Porto - Baia NA - 22 ott.>06 dicembre 2011
Pescatori - “da Fefé” - Casevecchie - Bacoli NA - giugno>settem. 2012
Faces - ART Drinks NERO at Cycas - Bacoli NA - 27 luglio>27 settembre 2012
Urbs Sanguinum - Apotheca Artport- Pozzuoli NA 14>27 settembre 2012
Looking for Hannah - CAST Cafè - Bacoli NA 24 marzo>21 aprile 2013
This is not America - “da Fefé” - Casevecchie - Bacoli NA - 17 ottobre...