Andrea Ranieri Maria Ottaviano

He has completed his MA in Illustration at "Istituto Europeo di Design" , Milan, Italy in June '94. He specialized in Oil Paintig and 3D film animation. He taught art to children at "Latin American House", London.

During the last few years I haven’t been able to paint anything but places, angels, demons and intermediate figures using vivacious and bright colours which recall the south of the world. And now, presenting them on stage and taking a retrospective view, I find some analogies with the present political and social time.

In this extraordinary worldwide political reality there is a growing desire for “transformation”, a desire for a “soft revolution” above all on moral values. Nevertheless at the same time I seem to perceive a widespread feeling of restlessness, a subtle sensation of insidious danger hiding in this apparent calm.

Perhaps for me these images are “symbols” or “shapes”, picking up this restlessness, because we should never forget that images of thought always originate from far away and “other meanings are hid­den behind the appearance of the visible.

Through this excursion In my stylistic collection of images or icons (once the key to unlock the meaning is found) I tried to be anti-t...

He has completed his MA in Illustration at "Istituto Europeo di Design" , Milan, Italy in June '94. He specialized in Oil Paintig and 3D film animation.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

“Rio Amajary” The Blyth Gallery, Amazon House, Manchester.

“S.Lucia” Galleria Unione, Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari, Italy.

“Vibes ” Jersey Galleries, National Trust, Osterley, London.

“Mediterraneum” Galleria Il Sedile, Lecce, Italy.

Media Centre, London.

“Mediterranean “, Amber House Art Gallery, Tideswell.

Artistic License Gallery, London.

“The Seasons” ArtLink Exchange,Hull.

Original Arts Gallery, Harrogate, N.York.

Brewhouse Gallery, Grantham.

Aartvark Gallery, Dewsbury.

“Spiritual” , Buddhist Centre, London.

“South American Exhib.”, Blackfriers Arts Centre, Boston.

“Revolution”, Vivid Space Design,Merrill Lynch Bank, London.

“Art for Offices”, Working image, London.

Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield.

Springfield Gallery, London.

“Civilisation Out”, Hoxton Theatre, London.

Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan.



Selected Group Exhibitions

“Pietrobourgh Biennal” Pietrobourgh, Russia.

12 Miles West, Open Gallery, Hield Row, Worthing.

Originals Art Gallery, Inglenook, Gloucestershire.

“Horizons” Sui Generis Gallery, Southern C, Gloucs.

Millennium Art Collection”, Den Haag, The Netherlands.

Blacldriars Arts Centre, Boston.

“Spazio Arte” Fiera deil’Levante, Gagliano Me, Bari, Italy...