Vincenzo Balsamo

Vincenzo Balsamo (painter, engraver), was born in Brindisi, in 1935, he lived in Rome, Paris, Verona and now he lives in Corchiano (VT). He exhibited, several times in national and international fairs, galleries and museums, since Figurative works of the fifties and sixties, over the seventies with the periods of the First Abstraction, the "Decomposition" informal period, of matter work; to the "Nebulas" where the sign prevails on colour; to the "Evocations" of surreal calls; to the Second Abstraction (Return to the painting), of the first eighties that closes the "Analysis and experimentation" period. Since 1987 began the "Lyric abstraction", the sign, the colour, and the light are made up among them as if they would peer into the human "I". Vincenzo Balsamo is today one of the most important Italian artists of the abstraction. The two basic expressive elements used by Vincenzo Balsamo are signs and light. The signs are "docile and obedient", and sometimes assume an automatic character pursuing forms and figures that seem to acquire consistencly only when they are "named", or made to appear upon the canvas, by the artist. Balsamo's expressive intention has nothing to do with fixing static images on the surface of the picture. On t...

Autodidact and San Giacomo Art School in Rome.

Solo Exhibition:
# 1957
- BRINDISI, "Civic Centre" - Italy
# 1961
- ROME, "Il Camino" Gallery - Italy
# 1963
- ROME, "Zizzari" Gallery - Italy
- MILAN MARITTIMA, "La Bottega" Gallery - Italy
# 1965
- ZURIGO, "Burdeke" Gallery - SWISS
- CARPI, "Del Ridotto" Gallery - Italy
- ROME, "T. Volsci" Gallery - Italy
# 1967
- ZURIGO, "Burdeke" Gallery - SWISS
- TARANTO, "Magna Grecia" Gallery - Italy
- OSTUNI (BR), City-Hall - Italy
# 1969
- BARI, "La Bussola" Gallery - Italy
- GENOA, "Carlevaro" Gallery - Italy
# 1970
- PALERMO, "La Vetrinetta" Gallery - Italy
- TURIN, "Viotti" Gallery - Italy
- ROME, "Lisi" Gallery - Italy
- ROME, "Zizzari" Gallery - Italy
# 1971
- RAVENNA, "Le Arti" Gallery - Italy
# 1977
- ROME, "Tevere" Gallery - Italy
# 1988
- GENZANO (ROME), "Infiorata Exhibitions Halls" - Italy
# 1989
- ROME, "Campaiola" Gallery - Italy
- ROME, "MR" Gallery - Italy
- HAMBURG, Forum "Kunst Messe" - Germany
- ASIAGO, "Excelsior" Gallery - Italy
- NICE, Palais des Exposition - "Art Jonction International" - France
# 1990
- VENICE, "Santa Apollonia" Art Centre - Italy
# 1991
- GENZANO (ROME), "Panna" Gallery - Italy
- MILAN, "International Contempo...