Agostino Viola

Agostino Viola was born on 7.11.1960 in Santa Maria Capua Vetere (CE) - ITALY.

At the age of 3, his family relocated to Milan in Northern Italy.

At the age of 15, he had his first art exhibition at the Gallery "The Cathedral" in the center of the city of Milan.

At 20 he moved to central Italy: to the Marche region. Here he knew the poets of Urbino town, the maestro Domenico Cantatore, with whom he started a fruitful friendship.

In Marches, he came into contact with medieval architecture, enriched by precious paintings by medieval and Renaissance artists such as Carlo Crivelli. This area is also the native land of important contemporary masters such as Licini in painting and Fazzini in sculpture.
This Region has a long goldsmith tradition, from which the artist is emotionally involved: he begins to create art objects in precious metals, studying ancient techniques such as embossed chisel.

In this region he had some personal exhibition at the historical cities, such as the city of Fermo.

In 1999: he returned to Milan where he currently works.

In 2002: he had the joy of seeing Cardinal C. M. Martini and donated a bronze sculpture entitled "The City".

In 2007: personal art show of “Old Mill Dugnani” in Sant'Aga...

During high school, he took courses in Accounting in the morning, but to cultivate his artistic passion, he attends simultaneously the night school for “Arts Applied to the Industries” at Sforzesco Castle.

After high school, he enrolled in the first year of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan and then finished his studies in Macerata, graduating in painting with a thesis in art history on the myth of the Great Mother.