Lino Ciraldo
A chemist with a love for art
Lino
Ciraldo, born in Bronte in 1926, painter, has lived and worked for a
long time in Bari and in Tuscany. He studied at the Capizzi College
where he obtained his baccalaureate.
Graduated in chemistry in 1950 at the University of Catania, he left
Bronte in search of a professional outlet at high levels, staying
first in Bari and then in Florence.
For his art he has received the largest acclaim from critics and
audiences throughout Italy and abroad. He has carried out his
personal exhibitions over the years in many parts of Italy,
receiving positive reviews from many Italian and foreign art
critics.
He has participated since the Seventies in national and international
exhibitions and held numerous personal exhibitions among which we
recall those in: La Cooperativa Esperienze Culturali, Bari; Italian
Institute of Culture, Brussels; The New Sphere, Milan; Ca 'Rezzonico,
Venice.
His is a visual painting, of the leaves captured in their essential
stylizations, of new expressive research, in which the geometric
design, the texture, the chromatic variations, the tonal contrasts
intersect with precise design rigor. Among his works and his art
have written, among others, Michele Campione, Carlo Munari, Bruno
Pompili, Giorgio di Genova, Pierre, V. Scheiwiller, D. Villani and
others.
An exhibition of his "paintings and sequences / modules" made, at the
invitation of the City of Bronte, in the premises of the Capizzi
College in May-June 1983, and that Lino Ciraldo wanted to dedicate
to his native country, received considerable success. Visitors
appreciated his latest artistic production, his "chromatic textures"
that Ciraldo condenses in the "sequences / modules" formula.
«The module - then wrote the municipal quarterly" Bronte Notizie "-
based on a strictly geometrical representation of reality, consists
of a series of" chromatic segments ", related to each other
according to the elementary rules of multiple and submultiple .
The result is anything but "figurative art" ("I did not bring boats
and landscapes", he then proclaimed disdainful Ciraldo), but a
champion of the universe that would derive if we repeated his
stylistic processes to infinity: to put it in short "chromatic
textures", which constitute the lyrical moment of artistic creation
in their creation.
Working on the segments of the same module, progressively increasing
the intensity of the dominant color, the "sequence" is realized,
which is the aesthetic and lyrical demonstration of how, while
keeping the module constant, it can vary the different moments of
the same sequence. resulting work. The lyrical effect, in this case,
derives from the global contemplation of the complex constituting
the sequence ".
With an eccentric but frank and instinctive character, Lino Ciraldo
has worked as a chemist but his sincere and profound love for art
has accompanied him throughout his life. Someone told him that by
visiting Sicily he understood why he used those colors. He was also
asked what is Bronte in his works and without thinking too much he
replied: "The colors of this land: there can not be anything else!". |