Attilio Geva

Attilio Geva was born in 1948 in a small village in the region of Liguria, Italy, and he currently lives in a farmhouse in the countryside near the town of Todi.
A former officer in the merchant navy, ex-manager and IT businessman, he has devoted himself to painting since his childhood. For the last twenty years, he has been working as a full-time artist carrying out specific projects about topics such as Darwinism, faith and fundamentalisms, egocentrism and cooperation, and the relationship between music and painting.

Attilio Geva nato nel 1948 in un piccolo paese della Liguria attualmente vive in un casale in aperta campagna vicino a Todi.
Ex-ufficiale della marina mercantile, ex-manager e imprenditore nel campo dell’informatica, si dedica alla pittura fin dalla infanzia. Da circa venti anni svolge attività artistica a tempo pieno realizzando specifici progetti su tematiche quali: darwinismo, fede e fondamentalismi, egocentrismo e cooperazione, relazioni fra musica e pittura

He participated in several personal and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
His art addresses the eyesight, with no limitations in gender or form. In his artistic compositions, he freely resorts to any method suitable to achieve his purposes, from classical painting to oil on canvas, or to digital techniques, from art installations to art performances. His most recent passion are ceramic sculptures. An overview of his artworks is available on
www.geva-attilio.com.
The main projects to his credit are: “Biology”, whose intent is to describe the relationship between us and our material consistency, meant as the only source of existence, free of intangible souls or ghosts; “Dig(ital)”, based on making film extracts static and thus working on them through traditional and digital techniques: the goal is to light up visual elements created by other artists (which are elusive due to their dynamic nature or to the observer’s superficial nature) and integrate them with the perception of a receiver who is at the same time a user and an artist, and finally transfer them to the sensibility of a third user; “BlasFreeMe” (2013-14), which is centred on blasphemy, understood as a right and not as a crime; “n-EGO-tions”, that deals with t...