Arcangelo

The Tanit gallery is happy to present Arcangelos 10th solo exhibition on february this year. With a group of paintings entitled Terra Mia the Tanit Gallery showed his first exhibition in 1983 with great successs. Meanwhile we can proudly look back on over 20 years of intensive collaboration with Arcangelo whose first monographic book is just published:

Arcangelo, Opere 1983 - 2002, Perugia 2003.

We presented the main cycles of his artistic production (from "Terra mia" to "Sanniti"), which allows an entire survey on his impressive oeuvre, composed of paintings, installations and sculptures.

In the current show we present new paintings from the series of the Sanniti, which Arcangelo started to work on in 2001.

Sanniti are the people who lived in ancient roman times in the South of Italy, the native country of the artist.

For Arcangelo this mythic world is an inexhaustible reservoir of suggestions and evocations. Associations to the famous cave paintings come up and remenber the origins of civilization. Inspired by the archaic culture of the Sanniti he creates an own language of signs and symbols.("feticci") The paintings strike by their expressive manner mixed up with fragile sketches.

With the new cycle he turns more into colour, red and blue are predominant.

Dr. Annelie Pohlen, Kunstverein Bonn, will will introduce the new monographic book on the artist: Arcangelo, Opere 1983-2002 Perugia 2003 Monography in three languages (english, italian, german), 257 pages, 344 illustrations

Arcangelo