alfonso calafato artist

Art curriculum

1996

I do collective "dead nature", organized by the Naples Nostra.

1997

IIa premium edition "Helios", a city of Fourth, Naples.
IIIa premium edition "Art and freedom", a city of Avellino, organised by the Arts and freedom.
IIa collective "dead nature", organized by the Naples Nostra.
Two exhibitions Curiosity organized by the Naples Nostra, in the months of March and May at the gallery Umberto I of Naples.
Regional Award painting "Napoli future city" at the association "The New Summit".

1998

Creating personal website www.calafato.info

2000

Staff in February at the "Velvet", disco-bar, gallery, in the historic centre of Naples.

2001

Participation in the collective "Cromaticos" at the association "Ferrara Proart" Ferrara.

Collective "Espressività Contemporary" at the association "axiom of Prato"

2003

Staff in February at the gallery "The Second Renaissance", Bologna

Collective "The color and light" in July-August Gallery "The Second Renaissance"

2004

Collective at the cultural association "arteoggi" - Caserta

2006

Staff in February at NOY center - Milan

2007

Staff in February at "Maison Espana" - Milan

2008

Collective "lu cunto de lu mare" at the new station Maritime in Naples.

Collective "8marzo: not flowers but works.". At Giubox gallery, Naples.

reviews:

Ermanno Sagliani wrote him :
The work of Alfonso pictorial Calafato, born in Naples, sociologist and self-taught artist, is "the art and intuition" as he himself says.
Calafato as a whole is a conspicuous example of a pictorial language that is reflected back on itself, on its own code, its expressive function rooted in his mind and finds tools and matter to be creative increase message, a metaphor for many human values.
The works of Alfonso Calafato blood in pencil, charcoal, mixed techniques in abstract, express anguish or joy of living in alternating sequences.
The summons, which is an important aspect inherent in the artist's creative process becomes valence proposal with various symbolic figures in the succession of his work, calling into question the vision of bourgeois. Unusual in detail the experiments with unusual materials.
Colors, shapes are vibrating visual tribute ardent creativity of pictorial Calafato. (2006)

"The art is the art of Calafato, thought little of the above, rather than of thought can talk about intuition. References to the history of modern art are explicit, but its handling is dripping. How a ceramic artist lathe to the canvas is manipulated by more than one person, as in a ritual dance collective color is slipping sincronicity. His is clearly a breakdown in pictorial structure, his gesture, his track leads to physical and metaphysical aspects invisible to the conscience but archetypes rooted in the mind. its "rhizome" is a thought and a lifestyle in order to "deterritorializzare" and "riterritorializzare" a way of making art. "
Ludovico Boffa Gorini (2005)

"Through research aimed at finding, from time to time, the most authentic language, the way of graffiti to cubism, to the experimentation with unusual materials, Alfonso Calafato works in a surface from which the image draws relief. Lo ago with the design, whose sudden, sharp first, then gradually more pronounced, introduces an absolute color, a true provocation. Without respect for the proportion and symmetry, the image is subtracted to register credible and codificabile, free by signification, which is mirage of each claim standardization. Nevertheless, in his anxiety, Calafato not speak the language of the combatants or the conflict: the status of fighter where you are, as an artist, his art is pretty contrast, the irony, then, the question open. not proceed against conformism, but beyond conformism, lasciandoselo behind, as it is interesting because the battle in the direction of quality intellectual battle ".
Ornella Cucumazzi (2003)

Alfonso Calafato, born in Naples, sociologist, approaches to painting by self-taught. The first passion painting is dedicated to grapple technology "pointillisme" resulting from the suggestion of luminous works by Seurat and Signac. Hence the creation of landscapes, marine, but especially women, dazzling light shining in a thousand pagliuzze colored. Discard then the study of color depending on the light, to give greater emphasis to the chart-disegnativo. The section is sharp, color campiture become flat, defined by dark contours net. Frequent chromatic contrasts, often violent: green-pink, pink-blue, blue-yellow, gradually abandoning the naturalistic representation, volumetric and tends to a flattening growing. The three-dimensional gives way to bidimensionalità which is in itself abstraction, synthesis. And 'the line that defines the image. In recent works the line thick, strong, sfalzata compared to the figure below, predominates. Indication about freedom of expression-free settings rational: the color trasborda, does not cover completely dropped. The finiteness of it is not essential, and indeed is put aside.
The author creates a flow expressive istintualmente guided by the arm, highlighting the expressive elements and not rational criticizing bourgeois vision of order and symmetry is in art as in life. (2001)