Vito Bongiorno
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Biography
He moved to RomeRome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
at a young age where, while studying art, he met the aero-painter Mino delle Site, who had already been highly praised by Marinetti.
He then lived in Monaco
Monaco
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where he worked hard for two years.
He subsequently moved to New York
New York
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where he was faced with a most fascinating contemporary reality. The artist defines his art as "synthetic life".
Vito Bongiorno was labelled by Costanzo Costantini as the Italian Yves Klein
Yves Klein
Yves Klein was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He is the leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany...
. This definition is a testimony to his work on the female body, started in the year 2000.
The artist’s style is clearly evoked by his anthropometric work, which he created in Tarquinia
Tarquinia
Tarquinia, formerly Corneto and in Antiquity Tarquinii, is an ancient city in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.- History :Tarquinii is said to have been already a flourishing city when Demaratus of Corinth brought in Greek workmen...
in 2002 and in Fregene in 2008. He currently lives and works in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
and is considered to be one of the rising contemporary Italian artists both locally and internationally.
Works celebrated
- 2002Etruscan Tarquinia 2002 the imprint of the third millennium.
- 2008Fregene invaded by women blue Vito Bongiorno
- 2009A castle for Contemporary Art