GIULIO CERALDI
Giulio Ceraldi recovers the medieval structure of the polyptych, to assemble, with nails, paper and sheets of metal, icons of a post-futurist flavour, rich in iconographic suggestions directly exhumed from the repertoires of classical mythology. Of prehistory and extra-European ethnography. Like a new Hephaestus, Ceraldi assembles and composes geometric symphonies of secular tables, whose messages are transmitted to the observer like a Morse code. Abstraction, geometry, hieraticism, hyperrealism: each panel beats its visual telegraphy, until the whole, as in an altarpiece, does not come to fill the cognitive gaze of the observer. Even in the sculpture installation, "the mystical gulf", the logic is the same: the artist puts together the objects of a mental archaeology in which symbols and stories of the many pasts of man coexist and relive.
Giulio Ceraldi born (1948), born in Naples, is a painter and theatrical set designer.
He trained at the Filippo Palizzi Art Institute in Naples, where he would later teach painting disciplines. He began his exhibition activity in 1972 at the Mediterranean Gallery of Naples. Participates in the X QUADRIENNALE - The new generation, Rome 1975.
Driven by the need to make his own artistic language evolve, he leaves the individual dimension of the studio, to which painting forces him and arrives at the choral one of the theater. In 1979 he moved to Rome. He collaborates as a painter in the "TRACCE" project by Antonio Neiwiller and as an actor in some of his theatrical performances in the years 1982-92. He is among the creators of the VIRUS group.
He creates sculptures and props in the theatrical show "I PERSIANI" with sets and direction by Mario Martone at the Greek Theater of Syracuse 1990.
He collaborates as a set designer in some theatrical performances of the director Claudio Collovà. Together with the musician Marco Ariano he organizes workshops, stages, performances (1998-2002)
He has taken part in national and international exhibitions and collaborated with the Museo delle Trame Mediterranee in Gibellina.