Son of a Police officer, Italo Antico spent his childhood in various places, from Scutari in Albania to Genoa, from Trieste to Grosseto.
MAAAPO artists
Santiago Arranz, Self-taught and theoretically trained Spanish artist, he graduated in art history from the University of Barcelona in 1982.
Gianni Asdrubali is one of the artists who participated in the enrichment of the MAAAPO environmental collection through the creation of two works: the "Etroma" mural and the "Drumbo" ceramic
Bruno Ceccobelli was born in Montecastello di Vibio (PG), on 2 September 1952. His research was initially conceptual, before reaching a pictorial abstraction that leads to a true spiritual symbolism.
Tommaso Cascella was born in Rome in 1951. The heir of a family tradition spanning more than a century, he experiences artistic languages as a natural expression of his own person.
In over forty years of activity, Alik Cavaliere has used the most heterogeneous materials, swithing between traditional sculpture metals and less traditional ones. He carried out his teaching activity for over 30 years at the Brera Academy.
Born and raised in Pavia, Gianni Cella's formative at the Raffaello Sanzio Art School in Pavia and subsequently at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in Painting with Professor Manfredi
Michelangelo Galliani (Montecchio Emilia 1975) began working as a sculptor at a young age. Galliani, in addition to his work as a sculptor, is a Professor of Marble and Hard Stone Techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino.
Omar Galliani was born in 1954 in Montecchio Emilia, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He concluded his academic career as a professor of Painting at the Brera Academy.
Alberto Ghinzani was born in 1939 in Valle, in the Lomellina countryside, in the family home where his parents had moved at the first signs of war; they returned to Milan only at the end of the conflict.
Gaetano Grillo, creator, founder and director of MAAAPO, was born in Molfetta (BA) in 1952. He moved to Milan at a very young age to study at the Brera Academy with Alik Cavaliere.
Antonio Ievolella was born in Benevento in 1952. After studying at the art high school in his city, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.
Igino Legnaghi was born in 1936 in Verona, where he lives and works. He served his apprenticeship in metalworking in his father’s laboratory. He taught sculpture at the Academies of Foggia, Bologna, Brera, Verona.
Giuseppe Maraniello was born in Naples in 1945. After studying art, he began to teach at the secondary school of art in Benevento in 1969, the year he began to work with Naples’ Galleria Morra.
Luciano Minguzzi was born in 1912, he gained his first experiences under the wise guidance of his father Armando, also a sculptor, continuing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna
Hidetoshi Nagasawa creates a perfect union between Eastern art and Western art and his works are metaphors of travel through time and space.
Gianfranco Notargiacomo, born in Rome on November 12, 1945, has always been a painter. He graduated in Philosophy with Emilio Garroni (Aesthetics), at the Sapienza University of Rome to learn about the profound reasons for painting.
Antonio Paradiso was born on February 26, 1936 in Santeramo in Colle. His work is characterized mostly by themes related to nature, such as the numerous studies and works on birds and flight.
Adele Prosdocimi lives and works in Milan. She holds a degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan. For several years, she has worked as a designer in San Francisco, New York, and Rome.
Renzogallo is one of the artists who participated in the enrichment of the MAAAPO environmental collection through the creation of the work "Ovunque, guardando"
Riccardo Cordero was born in 1942 in Alba in the province of Cuneo. He worked as a sculptor in Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Iraq, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay and the United States.
Marika Ricchi was born in Cesena in 1987. She has participated in several competitions, solo and group exhibitions. Her debut was in 2014 when she was invited to participate in the Biennale d’arte creativa in the church of San Salvatore in Viterbo.
Marco Nereo Rotelli was born in Venice in 1955, where he graduated in architecture in 1982. For years he has been pursuing research on light and the poetic dimension that Harald Szeemann defined as “an expansion of the artistic context”.
Nicola Salvatore was born in Casalbore (Av) in 1951, lives and works in Como. He already holds a chair in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan.
Aldo Spoldi is an Italian artist and writer. He is a member of the Collège de 'Pataphysique as an Anacoreta del lingua. He is the founder of the Banca di Oklahoma and the Accademia dello Scivolo.
Walter Guidobaldi was born in 1949 in Roncolo, where he still lives and works. At the end of the Seventies, the critic Renato Barilli included him in the Nuovi-nuovi group.