Giuseppe Spena

“Aesthetics is more interesting than history. I wonder sometimes if people who are taught art history were asked to describe pictures, rather than put them in various sociological or historical settings of influence, how much they could say that would make somebody else see more in them. Does the quality of appreciation somehow atrophy when they assume that everything is part of a general story, rather than the general story being a vast mass of the mediocre and a few really great pictures which make the whole activity worthwhile, and which have a curious fellowship throughout the ages? Finally what matters is whether the picture works, and that could be Giotto or Fragonard or Monet, and finally the criteria as to why it works are the same. In a way I think of a Cézanne and a Giotto being closer to each other than a Cézanne and a Pissarro.”
(Frank Auerbach)


"Criticism can only exist as a form of love"
(Andrè Breton).

"The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work"
(Lucian Freud).

Born in Napoli (Italy), living and working here.
I graduated at DAMS – Bologna, an art faculty created in the seventies, that was deeply influenced by the researches in the field of semiotics and structurali...

Master Degree in DAMS (Disciplines of Art, Music and Performing Arts) - Bologna University