

Giulio Ceraldi Biography
Giulio Ceraldi was born in Naples on April 6, 1948.
He graduated in painting disciplines from the Filippo Palizzi art institute in Naples, where he also attended the stage design course. He later taught painting disciplines and drawing at
the I.S.A. of Naples. Pictorial production began in the mid-1960s.
and his exhibition activity began instead in 1972, when he participated in the 10th Quadrennial of Rome in the section The New Generation.
The meeting with the Ammendola brothers led to a collaboration with the historic Mediterranea gallery in Naples, where he produced two exhibitions: the aurora in '78 and dialogues of the present in '79.
In 1980 he moved to Rome, taking a studio in Via di San Giovanni in Laterano, where the works for the 1981 exhibition at the Galleria dell'Orologio in Rome were born.
In the same year he exhibited at the Axel Gallery in Innsbruck.
From friendship and through the medium of some Roman artists he obtained a work space in the Palazzo Silvestri-Rivaldi ( Occupied Convent) where he produced large-scale works with which he staged in 82 the performance installation “At the Foot of the Hourglass,” at the Villa Borghese amphitheater, which was followed, again produced by the Rasgamela Theater Cooperative, by an installation in the Giulio Agricola subway in Rome.
In 1986 with artists Consuelo Chierici, Dino Izzo, Salvatore Ravo and Giancarlo Savino he founded the VIRUS GROUP. In 1990 Giulio Ceraldi is commissioned by theater director Antonio Neiwiller to create two permanent installations for the project “Traces” on the occasion of the theatrical performance dedicated to Ferdinando Pessoa, “Una sola moltitudine.” The first is placed in the foyer of the CRT in Milan and the other in the CSRT in Pontedera.
In the same year he creates various sculptures and props for the play “Persians” by Aeschylus, directed by Mario Martone, at the Greek theater in Syracuse. An INDA production.
On that occasion he met theater director Claudio Collovà, with whom he established a long and passionate artistic partnership that resulted in various works and performances in the years to come.
January 1991 saw the birth of “Le Buttane pomeriggio notte mattina,” from stories by Aurelio Grimaldi, directed by Claudio Collovà, scenes by Giulio Ceraldi, costumes by Enzo Venezia, lights by Pasquale Mari.
In 1993, “The Green House,” from the novel by Mario Vargas Losa, ETI Italian showcase award, was staged. Directed by Claudio Collovà, scenes costumes by Giulio Ceraldi, lights Pasquale Mari; the show will be performed at the Piccolo Teatro in Palermo and at the Palazzo dell'Esposizioni in Rome.
In 1995 it was the turn of “L'isola incandescente,” from the work by Vincenzo Consolo, from an idea by Mariella Lo Sardo, music by Ralph Towner, directed by Claudio Collovà, sets and costumes by Giulio Ceraldi, lighting by Marcello d'Agostino, staged at the Teatro libero in Palermo.
The same year he worked on “Nadja,” loosely inspired by the work of André Breton, based on a text by Mario Prosperi, for the Teatro Stabile di Innovazione Florian production in Pescara. Direction by Claudio Collovà, lighting scenes and costumes Giulio Ceraldi.A short film entitled “Nadja,” based on Breton's L'Amour fou, is made for this show: direction by Giulio Ceraldi and Claudio Collovà. It is presented in Pescara in 1995 at the Teatro di Tor di Nona and in Rome the following year.
It will later return to the theater with Artist as a Young Man, a tribute to James Joyce's Dedalus, directed and dramatized by Claudio Collovà. The sets are by Giulio Ceraldi. The show is performed at the Bellini theater in Palermo on the occasion of the XXX edition of the Orestiadi in Gibellina it will be on this occasion that Ceraldi places one of his works, dating back to 1986 entitled “bricolage-sensual heresies,” in the Museum of Mediterranean Plots in Gibellina.
But it will be the work “The Arch of Xerxes,” made in '90 in Syracuse historiated with the first sheets of nailed metal, that will shoot a new arrow and set the artist on a new path, pointing Giulio Ceraldi in the direction of that long journey toward the mystique of the icon that still continues today.
In 2020 he exhibited “The Abode of Change and Persistence,” a catalog edited by Jonathan Giustini, at Monica Cecchini's Incinque Open Art Monti Gallery in Rome.
Over time the following have written about him: Alfredo Accatino, Jonathan Giustini, Luca Beatrice, Paolo Ricci, Vitaliano Corbi, Michele Bonuomo, Maria Roccasalva, Virginia Vittorini, Giancarlo Fiordalisi, Mario Maiorino.
Exhibitions
1972 centro d’arte arte Caggiano Napoli
1973 Quadriennale di Roma
1974 Arsenali di Amalfi Salerno
1976 prologo minori Salerno
1976 prologo minori Salerno
Galleria mediterranea Napoli
Campania proposta uno
galleria Vanvitelli Napoli
1978 galleria mediterranea Napoli
1980 arte studio Ganzerli Napoli
1981 galleria Axel Innsbruck
1982 installazione anfiteatro villa borghese Roma
1983 installazione stazione Metro Giulio Agricola Roma
1984 galleria dell’Orologio Roma
1988 Arte al punto sala consiliare Ciampino Roma
1990 installazione CRT Milano
1991 installazione CSRT Pontedera
1996 galleria Because I love Roma
2010 Museo Civico Albano laziale Roma
2011 Museo delle trame mediterranee Gibellina
2020 Incinque open Art Monti Roma
2021 “Dune-campus creativo a cura di G.Zorcù performance di Virus Group, Principina a mare (GR)
2023 BACC Gallery mostra collettiva del Virus Group, Roma
2024 Studio Tibaldi mostra collettiva Trastevere, Roma