Nicola De Maria biography

Nicola De Maria is an Italian painter and artwork. He was born in 1954 in Foglianise, province of Benevento. In the Seventies he moved to Turin where he graduated in medicine. After meeting Mario and Marisa Mertz, he decided to fully dedicate himself to his true passion, art.
In 1979 he was invited by critic Achille Bonito Oliva to join the Transavanguardia even though his artworks will always be mainly inspired by abstract art.
Nicola De Maria describes himself as "one who writes a poem with fingers stained with color". Indeed, every painting or environmental artwork is the translation into vivid and bright colors of the artist's poetic vein.
The artist with his artworks wants to overcome the limits of the canvas to engage with the surrounding space. In fact, the artist almost never uses frames for his paintings and sometimes paints the edges and the back. Similarly, the sizes of the artworks vary from small to large, and often his painting expands to entire environments.
Nicola De Maria exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1980, 1988, and 1990, at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany in 1982, at the XVI São Paulo Biennale in Brazil in 1981, at the IV Sydney Biennale in Australia in 1982, and at the Rome Quadriennale in 2005 and 2012.