Old Masters Tizzano

"When in one of my works I mention someone else's, or when I scrupulously copy the masterpieces of the past, I know I am not original or expressing particular ideas; but I share feelings, emotions and universal meanings. I see myself as a simple narrator and perpetuator of archetypes and techniques. Citing and paying homage to colleagues and Masters has always been normal in the past and it is what has allowed man to improve the means and the expression of traditional values, as well as to avoid that so many works lost, stolen or destroyed, disappeared forever. From a certain point on, all this was sacrificed on the altar of the search for the new and for originality: what derived from it was an incremental loss of quality in almost all areas."

Massimo Tizzano Zuigan is an Italian painter mainly inspired by the works of Baroque painters such as Titian, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and many other Ancient Masters.
He has been drawing and painting since he was a child, but he began his formal education in the visual arts field only much later in life, with the practice of Japanese calligraphy (Shodo) under the guidance of Sensei Norio Nagayama from whom he received the name Oto Mi and the qualification to teach the principles of this nob...

Studio assistant of Odd Nerdrum - Norway, 2012
Pupil of Norio Nagayama Sensei - Italy 2001-2018

- "The style of the Old Masters" , Cosenza, National Library, patronized by the Italian Ministry of Fine Arts, January 2011.

- "Non fermaArti" , Cosenza, monumental complex of S. Augustine, Museum of Brettii and Enotri , 2012

- "Imagine", the Council Room of the Deltrono Palace, Cetraro, 2013

- "Solo L'Eternità", Palazzo della Corgna Città della Pieve, 4/2016

- "Santi: vite morti e miracoli", Palazzo Gentilli, Sanseverino Marche, 7/2016 - "Cuore Sacro", Palazzo del Trono, Cetraro, 7/2016

- "The European roots of Modern Painting", Palazzo San Bernardino, Rossano, 5/2017

-"Grandi Antichi", Ex Convento dei Gesuiti,
Paola, 12/2017 - 2/2018

Books:

- " A brief note on the St. John of Leonardo da Vinci" , published in "The Goblet revealed " by G. Montera for the types of Prodinnova Publisher .

- " Ku " (Emptiness) , calligraphy published in " The body conscious . Arts of the East and the integration of adult life. A contribution to a intercultural phenomenology", S. Giammusso, Mimesis editor.

Museum:

- A permanent exhibit of the "Collezione Zuigan Tizzano", a collection of 33 old masters copies of masterworks dated between the XV and the XVII centuries, will be on display untill October 2019 in the Muse...