Gianluca Cavallo

Born in 1976.
Since he was a child, he has been drawing any kind of subject with extreme naturalness. His portraits, comic-strips, drawings and sketches visualize reality and imagery within the frameworkof daily life.
In 2006 he projected the inside of the Church of Virgin Mother in Sassano (Sa) and decorated entirely both the altar and walls with oil paintings based on scenes taken from the Book of Genesis( "The original sin" and "The expulsion from Heaven" frame the huge central altar-piece devoted to the Virgin Mother).
In 2007 he met the artist Ugo Marano(1943-2011) that later, in January 2008, introduced his first solo exhibition at Palazzo Sant'Agostino in Salerno. He outlined that "Gianluca Cavallo shows us paintings of different sizes and this is quite important since the choice of pictorial space, small, medium, large, giant, its horizontality or marked verticality is already a deserving stimulus of research to find out unusual pictorial inspirations. Besides we catch his interest in painting in different ways and techniques. Different themes are faced as well. As in every work he was about to plunge into a small gully. The artist works without any prefixed models, subjects or objects prepared in the studio. He creates b...

2002/2000 painter decorator diploma from the "Palazzo Spinelli" Institute of Art and Restoration in Florence;2016/2015 Master in Editorial Graphics at "Pc Academy" in Rome; 1998/2005Graduating in Literature and Philosophy at the "La Sapienza" University of Rome

personal exhibitions
2007, i topi non avevano nipoti, Grotte dell’Angelo Pertosa, Salerno, Italia; 2008, Gianluca Cavallo, Palazzo Sant’Agostino, Salerno, Italia; 2008, Solo sale, Caffè Letterario, Roma, Italia; 2009, Gianluca Cavallo (trecentosessantacinque giorni d’autore), Creative room Art Gallery, Roma, Italia; 2009, Teleserie (5708-13309) in prossimità del fuso orario, Horti Lamiani Bettivò, Roma, Italia; 2009, L’amore perduto, Castello Normanno del Guiscardo, Caggiano (SA), Italia; 2010, All’anagrafe Giovanni, Biblioteca Comunale, Sala Consilina (SA), Italia; 2012, L’universo è figura, Creative room Art Gallery, Roma, Italia; 2012, Procedemus ab utroque, Creative room Art Gallery, Roma, Italia; 2013, Il teatro del bailo, Officina delle Zattere, Padiglione Nazionale Repubblica del Bangladesh, 55^Biennale d’Arte, Venezia, Italia; 2014, La giostra di Ismaele, Fondazione La Verde La Malfa, San Giovanni La Punta, Catania, Italia; 2015, Incontri, Laboratorio di Via del Moro, Roma, Italia; 2015, Quando il cielo era una cattedrale, Micro Arti Visive, Roma, Italia; 2015, Madame Psychosis, Arthes Gallery, Roma, Italia; 2016, Virtualismi Instabili, Loft Gallery Spazio Mater, Roma, Italia; 2016, Windows, Laboratorio Via del Moro, Roma, ...