Luigi Cervone

No.Not just the same place and date list. I've never been a number.To tell the truth, I don't mind avoiding any scheme - or I'd better say labelling - except for that of man, which is also my target. Together with freedom.And it wasn't easy freeing my thoughts.I had to face my fears, and turn my weaknesses into strenght.I took off the sacred clothes with which I desguised my ingnorance and my awareness of death as divinity.I kept in hope the dreams of a child too early shipwrecked into reality.I left the shadow of a cloud which I loved as an orchid and I dragged - as a new Sisyphus - the burden of my sorrow climbing my youth.I followed the prints of the animal inside me, and I listened to the seasons' singing and their turning over.I moulded the weapons to conquer my choice on my own.I chose to be: numbers are for those who want to have.

Although he studied classics at the "Federico II" university in Naples, hehad a brilliant professional success in a field that wasnot exactly artistic; however, given that since a child he had cultivated his enthusiasm for drawing and had a notable talent for design, cartoons, posters, and modelling nativity scenes, art has continued tobe a part of his life. Although devoted for some years to his profession, he left it assoon as possible and followed art in all its aspect.
From the end the 1990s onwards he has held an uninterrupted series of shows, above all in the Napolitan area , in prestigious museums and institutional venues. From this came his great fame which made him well known throughout the centre and South of Italy; soon spreadingto Ferrara, Padua and Verona.
The first monograph devoted to his work dates from 2007, published by Lombardo Editore, and brings together the various catalogues published for his shows.
In 2013 the ministry for the cultural Heritage sponsored a famous exhibition held in the Sant'Andrea al Quirinale Group of museums.
He then moved to Montecarlo where he had a further great success. In 2014 he was awarded the Premio Art Protagonist by the Casa dei Carraresi in Treviso, and he took partin the As...