3. 1955
Lucio Diodati was born in Popoli on 24th October
scientific secondary school, then courses in scene painting at the Academy of Fine Art in L’Aquila
1980
“Festival Due Mondi” in Spoleto. (Italy)
1985
“amiche”
1999
He meets Gennaro Fidia and exhibits his work in his gallery in Roma
2000 – 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005
solo show in Aquila (Italy) - Parma and Reggio Emilia (Italy) - Havana in Cuba for a cultural exchange between Italy and Cuba-He exhibits in Salerno and Potenza. (Italy)
Parma, Casarano (Italy), Rimini, Bologna and Greenville (USA) - New York and Art-Philadelphia (USA) - Will be in the streets of Havana. He will be telling smiles and colors of the
cuban women, he will be painting in a 20 meter canvas - Collective Exhibition Barcellona (Spain) - Solo Exhibition Modena, Stavern(Norway) and Sandefiord (Norway)-International
Artexpo New York (USA) - Artexpo Vicenza, Viterbo, Montichiari, Padova, Bolzano and Bari (Italy) Roma (Italy) Artexpo Genova, Viterbo, Forlì, Parma and Bari (Italy) Collective
Exhibition Dubai
2006 - 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012
Solo Exhibition Potenza (Italy) Affordable art fair Londra -Art & Fashion ‘06 - BurJuman - Dubai - Solo Exhibition Piacenza and Parma (Italy) art fair - Londra and Glasgow (Scotland)
Collective Exhibition Spittal/Drau (Austria) La Plata (Argentina)Artexpo Longarone, Agrigento and Forlì (Italy) - Solo Exhibition Colorno, Marano, Positano, Manfredonia, Parma,
Bari, Pescara, Catania (Italy) - Stavern (Norway) and Karlovy Vary (CzechRepublic)Artexpo Bari, Reggio Emilia and Erba (Italy)art fair - Gant (Belgium) - Solo Exhibition Pratola
Peligna (Italy), Stavern (Norway), Montreal (Canada) - Artexpo Bolzano, e Forte dei Marmi (Italy) art fair Glasgow (Scotland) - Solo Exhibition Napoli, Corigliano Calabro (Italy),
Lisbon (Portugal)-the art in mind – Londra -
Solo Exhibition Roma, Albignasego, Crecchio, Lamezia Terme, Rivisondoli, Popoli (Italy) - Praha (Czech Republic) Heidelberg (Germany)-Collective Exhibition Campione d’Italia,
Treviso-Artexpo Reggio Emilia, Forlì (Italy) - Solo Exhibition Toronto (Canada) Francavilla Fontana-Collective Exhibition New York, Barcellona e Lecce
biography
4. WHAT did you drive to start this career?
“I have never thought that my passion for painting would become a
career!”
5. WHAT did you feel inside you?
“It’s something so personal and natural, I have never
thought over enough!”
6. WHY do you prefer to paint people?
“ When I paint people I can use a lot of colours;; the colours
colours
and the light are so important in my picture”
7. WHY in the past did you paint especially sceneries?
“Landscape and objects are around us and easy to represent;
everyone start drawing from simple things”
8. WHY , in a lot of pictures , there are always three elements?
“Three is the number of equilibrium, three elements produce balance”
9. ò
WHY do women have always very long neck and pointed chin?
“ At the beginning, I painted just the head and then other parts of body,
long necks and pointed chin let me fill the whole painting in!”
10. WHY do men are always in uniform or in mask and they have "normal"
neck and chin?
“The world I want to represent belong to women, men are not as important
as women, men often wear pompous uniform just to seem more significant”
11. WHICH is your favourite picture?
“I can’t have a favourite one, they are all mine, as children for a mum!”
12. The hats , so particular, are always present, have they a special
meaning?
“Hats let me use various and strange colours,, their oddness is able to
colours
bring women in a different reality”
13. WHY do you paint subjects in foreground?
“Subjects in foreground leave no empty spaces in a
painting”
14. WHAT is your painting technique?
“I employ oils: paintings are more resistant and proof
against the time!”
15. WHAT are your future projects?
“ I have no particular projects, I just wish to keep the desire
to paint and to be always a curious person”
16. In your pictures, years went by, the colours are now clearer , WHY?
“ At the moment I’m living a period more quiet and carefree, this is
probably because , I prefer lighter shades”
17. WHY do you live in Popoli and don’t you go in a bigger town?
“ I prefer to live in well known places, with familiar people in order to better
observe any possible changements around us…”
18. “vernissage
vernissage”?
WHAT is a “vernissage”?
“vernis
vernis”
“It’s a French word, it comes from the word “vernis” ,paint, it
indicates a painting exhibition”
19. WHAT is a biennial exhibition?
“ It’s an exhibition which takes place every two year”
20. WHAT is a personal exhibition?
“ It’s an exhibition of only one artist”
21. paintings?
WHICH is the present value of your paintings?
“ At the beginning of my career I sold my drawings for few Euro-
Euro-
cents,, today my paintings are valued more than 1,500 Euro”
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