BIO

Was born in Lecce (1949); while he was studying architecture in Naple and Venice he decided to devote himself to painting. He attended Aldo Rossi’s lessons in Venice and started an intensive production with the objective to investigate the continuous metamorphosis of the city. His paintings are created by the juxtaposition of objects related to contemporary architecture. Specifically, De Si mone fo cuses on the seventies, striving for a synthesis of the most signifi cant avant garde languages, in particular surrealism and symbolic abstraction.
What interests De Simone is the relationship between artificial and natural, the multiethnical reality of modern European cities. His ideas arise during his walks and are soon fixed in w ater colours on a small drawing book, before being elaborated and transformed into oil paintings.
Mostly referring to David Hockney (cubism surrealism mittel eu ropean abstraction) he actually sums up the Italian Painting of the XX century as a whole and updates it in the light of some more recent painters. He defines himself “a painter who studied as an ar chitect” and actually in his paintings there is the continuous search for a formal logic.

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HANNO SCRITTO SU DI LUI: Luca Cardani, Daniele Vitale, Marco Biraghi. Lorenzo Forges Davanzati, Cris Bono. Vittoria Ceriani, Paolo Rizzi, Simonetta Cini,  

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