Tommaso Cascella biography

- TOMMASO CASCELLA PAINTER

 

Tommaso Cascella is an Italian painter and sculptor born in Rome in 1951. Son of art, he began his apprenticeship at the guide and the house paternal, not only the domestic hearth but also the primordial drive 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 imbues almost every one of his works. In fact, he also founded an artistic print shop and publishing house, but he understood that his true vocation was to dedicate himself to art: he exhibited for the first time ever in Milan in 1985. From then on his work opened up to experimentation, he traveled a lot, he dedicates himself to 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, 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 participates in numerous exhibitions, including the famous XXI Biennale of Gubbio. Among the most relevant recognitions we can remember in 1995, for his work in the field of sculpture, the nomination as 'Academic for Sculpture' by noble Academy of St. Luke; participates in the XII Quadrennial in Rome and exhibits 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 foreign career is only just beginning: until 2003 he was assigned numerous personal locations for private and public exhibitions in some centers in Italy (Ischia, Certaldo, Bomarzo) but also overseas and beyond the Alps (Japan, Switzerland, Germany and Slovakia). Among his main works we remember the exhibition Analogie del presente in Bratislava, in collaboration with colleagues Enzo Esposito and Armando Fettolini , in 2001; and the personal exhibition Rosssso in Pietrasanta (Tuscany) in 2003. Aware of the potential and artistic affinity with Cascella's work, the city of Pietrasanta offered him further space for a public exhibition in 2006, entitled 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 singular and collective, in multiple cities: in Rome, Bolzano, Pescara, Todi, Turin (at the Eventinove gallery), Deruta (at the Fondazione Ceramica Contemporanea d'Autore), Terni (in the Archaeological Museum). A powerful artistic turning point comes during the collaboration with Marco Rossi at the Milanese space of Spirale Arte: the gallery hosts a series of three-dimensional works on paper, entitled Pop Up.

Since 2010 the artist migrates back to the capital, exhibiting at the Tricromia Art Gallery in Rome; he was then also included in the prestigious exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2011; from there, numerous large art cities request his presence: Rome requests him again for the project Arte in Regola to the note Galleria Aldobrandini ; Florence at the Calendiani exhibition and Berlin in the Walter Bischoff Galerìe.