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''CRUCIFIXION OF HITLER'' Painting

RAFFAELE CIOTOLA

Italy

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 14.8 W x 18.5 H x 0.6 D in

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THE SINNER - HITLER When I was infected with the HIV virus by my partner, whom I really loved - please believe me - I was not able to be consoled. I got mad and waited for him to suffer like me. On one hand I wanted for him the worst future, but on the other I loved him and forced myself as a Christian to recover the true meaning of love and forgiveness. This event changed my destiny, cause my dreams were completely destroyed. I am sure many people will not agree with me, but you should go through it and you'll understand that hate kills first of all the person who feel it. When I realized that anger, pride and unfare fate led me to destruction, I asked God with faith both to set me free from hate and to release my love, so I could start accepting my destiny even though everything seemed negative to my eyes. I saw a different path, why? After so long, I realized that I asked God for the inner freedom to love and with time forgiveness advanced within me. The awareness that everything was destiny came over me, so I had to give up. And I did that way! At this point you will ask me: in what measure does your life deal with Hitler on the cross? I am sure, it does! So many people hated him during the history and many of them still do not forget his cruelty today. Through my artwork, I represented a fragile man, slave to evil who used him as a tool to destroy so many innocent people. Really unfair! Let's try to forgive him in order to decrease the attention of people who still follow his ideals today. Let us forgive him to extinguish in the hearts of Hitler's supporters all the hatred transmitted; today we try to destroy the same hate through this representation of Hitler on the cross in the hands of God, who dwells in him, too. God is in everyone and we all are His creatures, both good and bad. In this artwork clearly we see a man, a slave to EVIL, he dies on the cross like all of us. Forgiveness defeats evil, we know it is difficult, but let us try it!

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:14.8 W x 18.5 H x 0.6 D in

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The artist Raffaele Ciotola was born in Naples on the 17th of October 1964. His loving and receptive mother promoted his studies and supported supporting his artistic nature. He obtained the Artistic High School School graduation and got the Master of Arts degree at the state institute of Arts "F.Palizzi" in Naples in 1983. Since he was a boy he has been devoting his life to painting in a professional manner; after his debut in 1980 at an exhibition in his hometown, he kept on taking part in other collective and personal exhibitions set up in several Italian cities until 2002 (Piano di Sorrento, St. Anne in Naples, Milano, Viterbo, Milan). He was awarded the gold medal at the National Biennial of Sacred Art in Torre del Greco in 1980 by prof. Mr Franco Girosi, a famous Neaolitan artist of the last century. It was foundamental for his training, the meetings with prof. Mr Franco Girosi and with Mr Luigi Signore, an artist known as one of the best sculptors of cribs in Italy today. He studied music and attended the voice class at the Conservatory of Naples, but the meeting he had in Rome in 1987 with Master Mr Renato Guelfi, opera singer and painter, was so crucial to his professional growth that he started performing as a singer in some Italian theatres (Lecce, Santa Maria di Leuca, Ronciglione, Villa Pignatelli in Naples). He got to obtained some rewards such as: the gold medal in "La Triade" Prize, Palazzo Sormani - Sala del Grechetto - Milano; the diploma of honor at St. Anastasia, Naples. His personal exhibition in Tuscia dates back to 2002 , in this occasion he exhibited for the first time at the Sala Anselmi in Viterbo. His painting style and production are characterized by an intense use of colours and by the chiaroscuro effects conveying a whole creative freedom and a boundless vital energy, without hiding any strong and eloquent emotion, leaving the viewer a hope, a light , the one that leads beyond any solitude and that blurs roles and social conventions. In fact, from the late 90s, his work is more focused on topical issues and feels the effect of his civil commitment against homophobia and discriminatory behaviors, so it became a vehicle to spread some nonconformist messages, even inspired by universal ethical values. In 2003 he created the artistic movement called "Stop Homoph Art" which aims to spread the culture of respect and fight against homophobia.

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