Vito Difilippo

The artistic research of Vito Difilippo originates in Puglia, between the Murgia hills and the sea landscapes that fuel a constantly evolving visual language poised between painting, Abstract Expressionism, Arte Povera, sculpture, and conceptual inquiry. This journey has carried his work from Southern Italy to international contexts, including France, the United Kingdom, and China. His practice moves along the thin threshold between the natural and the artificial, the archaic and the contemporary, aiming to distill a narrative that is abstract, intimate, and visceral. His painterly path is a stratification of experiences: from the “aesthetics of innocence” in his early cycles to the visceral gesturalism influenced by the Gutai movement, culminating in the codification of a universal graphic sign (D-Series). In every phase, color and mark are not merely decorative elements but tools of a physical and sensory experience aiming for extreme synthesis. While Difilippo’s painting is characterized by intense gesture and complex chromatic layering, it is in sculpture that his poetics reach their peak of tension. For the artist, the use of stone responds to a visceral need for “evasion” a necessary paradox where the most rooted and heavy me...

2026 – World Bridge香港文博會 – Hong Kong
2026 – No War – Ventoblu Gallery – Polignano a Mare, Italy
2025 – Manibus Capsule – Bari, Italy
2025 – SUBSTRATES – Virtual
2024 – Group –上海虹庐艺术中心 – Shanghai, China
2024 – Solo – Pi Gallery – Hangzhou, China

2023 – Solo – Studio – Santeramo, Italy

2022 – Group – Casa Cava – Matera, Italy

2019 – Group – Museo Bellini – Florence, Italy

2017 – Group – Daphne Bateau Gallery – Paris, France

2017 – Group – Saatchi Gallery – London, United Kingdom

2017 – Group – Casa Cava – Matera, Italy

2017 – Group – Domus Romana Gallery – Rome, Italy

2016 – Solo – Palazzo Marchesale – Santeramo, Italy