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He
was born in the Mantuan countryside (Northern Italy), in the
summer of 1956 from a family of farmers and for some years he
lived in strict contact with nature: the country landscape,
simple and rural people; those elements will be fundamental in
his pictorial background.
Then he moved to the city of Mantua, but he equally kept a
living relationship with his countryside, where he used to
spend summer at his grandparents' house. Summer has always
been his favorite season for colors and light contrasts, which
started to be interesting to him since his youth. In his first
school distemper works they immediately noticed his uncommon
ability in drawing and in the use of color.
Claudio was referred by his teachers to a good School of Fine
Arts, but his parents had other ideas on his future and did
not comply with his wishes. This caused a sense of frustration
and deep conflict, but Claudio decided to follow his project
since he understood that painting was the only interesting
thing to him, a reason of life.
His artistic vein which was already very strong, appeared in
the first oil paintings. He studied and observed, with great
interest, the big names of painting, showing a strong attitude
and preference for impressionists and post-impressionists.
He loved very much the straight off paintings,
with all those pithy brush-strokes that he already felt like
his own. He studied passionately his favorite painters Gauguin,
Van Gogh, the Fauves, Soroilla and Guttuso.
He attended the studios of some Mantuan painters, where he
could consolidate his artistic education.
When he was 20 he met
Marisa and fell in love with her. He understood immediately
that she was his soul mate and she became his muse. During
their engagement they understand that they had the same
pictorial tastes and she was enthusiastically looking at his
works.
When he was 24 they married and after a while Nicola and
Federica were born. He has a strong feeling for family and his
wife was always by his side, supporting him and encouraging
him to go on.
In 1985 he started to exhibit his works, which were
immediately appreciated by the public and the critics. His
solo exhibitions were following each other and his works were
notices by some merchants of art and in a short time were
included in a market circuit at a worldwide level.
He continued with his search for light. He traveled a lot to
know new colors, atmospheres and subjects from the very near
Garda Lake to the landscapes of the Southern Italy up to the
Caribbean.
Currently Claudio Malacarne is appreciated for his chromatic
imagination, his aesthetic taste, the search for colors which
are impetuous and soft at the same time. This free
interpretation allows him to better express his feeling thus
attaining an inner wellbeing, which is strongly shown in his
pictorial balance.
His consolidated and mature
painting is appreciated by important collectors all over the
world: form Europe to Japan to U.S.A.
His Italian landscapes, the marinas, the gardens full of
flowers, the palm trees, the human characters (his daughter
Federica often appears as a model), are the most loved
features both by Italian and foreign customers, as well as the
actor Denzel Washington which has two paintings in his private
collection.
He currently lives and works in his atelier house immersed in
the Mantuan countryside. |
