Antonio De Rosa

Antonio De Rosa (Naples 1958) graduated in piano performance at the Music Academy of Naples, with the hignest grade. He did his postgraduate studies with the renowned Polish piano player specialized in the Chopin repertoire Marian Mika. Antonio, as a “maestro collaboratore” helped Mr Mika in organizing the Interantional piano courses. As a soloist Antonio has played for the most important Italian music and cultural asssociations. In Naples he has performed for the University Federico II and the Grenoble French cultural institute. He has recently performed in the Haldane Room of Wolfson College Oxford.
As a sculptor , Antonio designs and produces
full scale grand pianos using a variety of materials.
These "mute objects" are contextualised and destructured in such a way
to express something which is no longer music.
For many years Antonio’s artistic objective has been to express the dynamic world of the instrument through installations or watercolours.
His grand pianos represent the gesture and the realisation of a musical sensibility
- a constant obsession over the years -
undergoing the same destiny of -composition and recomposition,
suspended in space and time, and yet tenaciously anchored in reality.
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He graduated in piano performance at the Music Academy main San Pietro a Majella of Naples,
is a self-taught figurative artist and sculptor

Solo exhibitions

//2013- Installaciones for “Piano city Napoli”, (3 works) Naples, (Italy)
//2011- ‘S’offerta’, installetions-watercolors, Lodge's Hall, Castel Nuovo Civic Museum. Sponsored by the Office for Cultural Events oftheCity of Naples. (Italy)
//2010 - ‘Piani Esposti’, (Exsposed Piano-Planes), Installations-watercolors Royal Palace of Portici, sponsored by Office for Cultural Events of the City of Portici, and Superintendency and Naples Provincial Administration. (Italy)
//2010 - ‘Mediterranean Fish’, watercolors, Botanical Garden, School of Agricolture (Portici) of University Federico II of Naples.(Italy) //2009 – ‘Installations and watercolors’ Napolitano Fundation, Palazzo Mastelloni, Naples. (Italy)
//2009 - 'Mediterranean Fishì - The Arts Society Wolfson College – Oxford (UK) //2009 – ‘Piani in equilibrio’, installations-watercolours, Museum- Church “San Severo al Pendino” sponsored by the Office for culture events of the city of Naples.(Italy) ...