BIOGRAPHY

 

Vincenzo Musardo was born in Galatone, Lecce, in the Salento area on the 13 January 1943. He completes his artistic studies in Lecce from where he graduates. Afterwards in Charleroi , Belgium he continues his studies as an auditor at the Art School. He lives there for 10 years working as a designer and sculptor in the workshops of Gres-Guerin and Dubois in Bouffiouls.

During these years he exhibits at the Europac in Bruxelles; he is prize winner at the "Prix Italienne"in Gilly, at the Palais des Congres of Liege and at the Grand Palace of Anverse.

He produces a clay sculpture for Queen Fabiola.

Musardo distinguishes himself above all as the creator of the ORBITALS movement.

But it is his paintings that receive major consents winning acknowledgments and prizes from the critics and jury.

His works entitled " Parallel Erosion" on show at the Palais des Congres in Liege,receive over and over again the prize "Graindorge-Societè Royale des Beaux Arts...

“...Vincenzo Musardo whose works in the lines of kinetic art seem to be crossed by a breath of wind that changes its shapes...”

He returns to Italy in 1973 where he has exhibitions and studies archeolgy.

In the same year he is awarded, by the International Jury, the "III Michelangelo d'Oro" for a three dimensional painting ( François Apollinaire France, Antony Harris England, Schrieferes Germany .)

From 1974 until the end of the 80's he creates and developes the "middlearchaic" art.

From middlearchaic to "citation" is a short step. Citations that seal the end of the "formal creativity"

Simple structures of the memory in which the only purpose is a strict "edifying process" and it is in such  process the real reason of creative possibility. His works don't look like polymaterial oils on canvas anymore but in the new context of "Stone Integrated on Canvas",which activates the eternal dualism of the law of the "Complementaries".

The extraordinary effects of the art works instinctively send one back to the historical reasons from where they started and become an opportunity for the latest considerations by the critics..."Imaginative temperament of an artist who has in his unconscious archaic memories of this mythical-magical land that is Salento"...Paolo Levi - Arte,1990

Together with the scholar Emilio Benvenuto, the "painter that carves the canvas" carry out research work into the Ecclesiastic History and Christian and Byzantine Archeology in Salento.

Since 1977 Musardo has a professorship at the Art School in Foggia and currently in Bari.

Since 1959 he has had numerous personal and collective  exhibitions.

Many of his works, sculptures and paintings can be found in museums, public buildings, art galleries and private collections.

 

 

TECNIQUE

polymateric oil on canvas or wood.