Tommaso Cascella biography

- TOMMASO CASCELLA PAINTER

 

Tommaso Cascella is an Italian painter and sculptor born in Rome in 1951. A son of art, he began his apprenticeship under the guidance and in the home of his father, which was not only a domestic hearth but also the initial impetus to discover the flame of art.

His nature leads him to a purely material art, bringing him closer to sculpture, material painting, and literature, which permeates almost every one of his artwork. He also founded an artistic printing house and publishing house, but he realized that his true calling was to dedicate himself to art: he exhibited for the first time ever in Milan in 1985. From then on, his artwork opened up to experimentation, he traveled a lot, and engaged in many different activities.

In 1987, he restored a 16th-century building in Bomarzo and decided to move there. He subsequently made numerous trips outside of Europe as well, in search of inspiration and exchange. The first trip took him to India, where he received inspiration for his first Roman exhibition, which was held upon his return in the same year. He also participated in numerous exhibitions, including the famous XXI Biennale di Gubbio. Among the most significant recognitions, we can mention in 1995, for his artwork in the field of sculpture, the appointment as 'Academic for Sculpture' by the noble Academy of S. Luca; he participated in the XII Quadriennale of Rome and exhibited a series of works abroad: you will find a graphic selection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, as well as a sculpture in the Tachikawa district of Tokyo."

His international career is just beginning: until 2003, he was assigned numerous personal venues for private and public exhibitions in several centers in Italy (Ischia, Certaldo, Bomarzo) but also overseas and across the Alps (Japan, Switzerland, Germany, and Slovakia). Among his main exhibitions, we recall the exhibition Analogies of the Present in Bratislava, in collaboration with colleagues Enzo Esposito and Armando Fettolini, in 2001; and the solo exhibition Rosssso in Pietrasanta (Tuscany) in 2003. Aware of the potential and artistic affinity with Cascella's artwork, the city of Pietrasanta offered him an additional space for a public exhibition in 2006, titled The Language of the Iris.

From 2006 to 2007, he dedicated himself to the Italian space and participated in numerous exhibitions, both public and private, both solo and collective, in multiple cities: in Rome, Bolzano, Pescara, Todi, Turin (at the Eventinove gallery), Deruta (at the Contemporary Author's Ceramics Foundation), Terni (in the Archaeological Museum). A powerful artistic turning point came during the collaboration with Marco Rossi at the Milanese space of Spirale Arte: the gallery hosted a series of three-dimensional works on paper, titled Pop Up.

Since 2010, the artist has migrated back to the capital, exhibiting at the Tricromia Art Gallery in Rome; he was then also included in the prestigious Biennale exhibition in Venice in 2011; from there, numerous major art cities have requested his presence: Rome called him back again for the Arte in Regola project at the renowned Galleria Aldobrandini; Florence at the Calendiani exhibition and Berlin at the Walter Bischoff Galerìe.