Gaetano Minale

Gaetano Minale (born July 04, 1938) is an Italian artist and impressionist painter who has created several artworks, including, The Painting of a Common Man in 2015, Woman and Nature in his Painting in 2016, and A Life for Painting in 2018.[1][2][3]

Education

In 1949, Minale attended a professional and technical school in Agnone and graduated as an electrical engineer.

Career

After graduation, in 1951, he started displaying his drawing, the first being an Indian ink display on the school notice board.

In 1962, he was hired by Unes, an electrical company that was nationalized in 1963 as Enel.

In 1969, attended the atelier of the master craftsman painter and restorer Gennaro Bravo in Atessa until 1975 and learned all the procedures for using oil on canvas.[4]

In 1977, he earned the Italian Oscar for the visual arts for “La sua Fattiva e Importante attività nel campo artistico-culturale”

Minale was called to be a member of the "I 500" Academy, the San Marco Academy, and the Academy of Modern Art and the Tiberina Academy of Rome. In the year 1978, he was also the appointed Academician of Italy and received a gold medal. He is an effective member of the World Union of Culture.

In 2011, he was appointed Artist for UNICEF province of Palermo. Minale has produced and participated in over 120 exhibitions all over the world. [5][6]

In 2015 – He creates a series of paintings that was used by the fairy tale writer Rita Cerimele of Turin, for a collection entitled” The Girl with The Red Suitcase” on behalf of the Ethics of Turino.

2016 – With a notarial deed, he donates to the municipality of Atessa 105 graphic paintings depicting glimpses and landscapes of Atessa, which are permanently exhibited in the Foyer of the Italia Auditorium in the municipal art gallery in his name.

2020 – In times of Covid-19 he creates the Gaetano Minale House Museum Collection in Atessa using three floors of his home; over 100 paintings are exhibited between graphics and mixed techniques of works carried out over 50 years of his pictorial activity.

Volumes made

2016 – The Municipality of Atessa publishes “Atessa, The Graphics in the Gaetano Minale Art Gallery”

2018 – He publishes the volume “A Life for Painting” for his 80th birthday.

Artistic Training

Minale enjoyed art since he was in middle school. He began painting at the age of 15 while staying over at his cousin’s in Castellammare di Stabia, after seeing a painter paint the Gulf of Naples from the castle of the city.

When he returned home, he bought watercolor paints and starting painting the Gulf too. Minale had to leave painting first for reasons of study but his passion never died and he soon returned to it after attending the atelier of the painter and restorer Gennaro Bravo between 1969 and 1975.

Artistic Production

His pictorial theme for over thirty years has been the culture and peasant tradition of Abruzzo, where Lamento's attachment to his land is evident; an ancient world that is disappearing and recognizes the painful existence of a life that can only find existential solutions in deep contact with nature. In these works there is a poignant nostalgia for a world that is disappearing due to the incivility of this modernity. [8] [9] In October 2011 he underwent a tracheotomy and total laryngectomy which slowed down his artistic and exhibition activity and his painting underwent a change with a new emotion towards nature and the joy of living; light and color dominate in his new works, and woman becomes the true protagonist of his painting in symbiosis with nature; the large canvases are born where we see long landscapes of immense expanses of poppies, sunflowers and daisies where the light enters the large, flowery meadows and spreads their brightness. The yellow brooms at the foot of the Majella and the spectacular trabocchi along the Adriatic coast of the Chieti area which testifies to the ancient fishing on stilts with the net, and then the figures and faces of women immersed in the green of the flowering meadows which, even if still, speak of life.

Main Exhibitions

1975 Gelmi Art Gallery - Sesto San Giovanni (MI) 1976 La Stadera Gallery - Sulmona (AQ) 1976 Beato Angelico Room - Rome 1976 Il Pavone Gallery - Milan 1976 Lo Scacco Gallery - Giulianova 1976 Galleria Michelangelo - Florence 1976 Galleria Maschio Angioino - Naples 1976 Eternal City Gallery - Rome 1976 Galleria Alba - Ferrara 1977 Galleria Casabella - Santa Margherita Ligure (GE) 1977 Itinerant Exhibition - Madrid (Spain) 1978 Itinerant Exhibition - New York (USA) 1978 Bottega d’Arte - Chieti 1978 Galleria 46 - Lanciano (CH) 1978 Galleria Tiberina - Rome 1978 Galleria Hotel Spiaggia - Alassio (SV) 1979 Artists' Club - Foggia 1979 Place Baudoyer - Paris (France) 1980 Palazzo dei Nobili - The Eagle 1980 Galleria Grafico Graphic - Venice 1980 Exhibition Esposizione - Salsomaggiore (PR) 1981 Galleria Colonnello - Sant Vincent (AO) 1981 Villa Olmo - Como 1981 Martinez Gallery - Cannes (France) 1982 Middle School Hall - Pratola Peligna (AQ) 1983 Palazzo Esposizione - Salsomaggiore (PR) 1983 Basilica San Giovanni in Laterano - Rome 1983 Palazzo Esposizione - Empoli (FI) 1984 Palazzo Reale - Milan 1984 International Hall - Los Angeles (USA) 1985 Council Chamber - Villa Santa Maria (CH) 1985 Chou-Ku Gallery - Tokyo (Japan) 1987 La Sonda Gallery - L'Aquila 1990 Chamber of Commerce - Chieti 1991 Galleria The Astoria Karolyl - Budapest (Hungary) 1993 La Defense Gallery - Paris (France) 1996 Sala Pera Palas - Istanbul (Turkey) 1997 Auditorium Diocleziano - Lanciano (CH) 1998 Sala San Gaetano - Atessa (CH) 1999 Galleria Centro Arte - Bologna 1999 Ambassadors Gallery - London (England) 2001 Council Chamber - Atessa (CH) 2002 Palazzo D’Avalos Museum Room - Vasto (CH) 2008 Gallery Museum Palazzo Mayer - Fossacesia (CH) 2009 Former Health District Hall - Atessa (CH) 2012 Monte Pallano Archaeological Park - Tornareccio (CH) 2015 Fondaco of the Dominicans - Atessa (CH)

Bibliography

1976 - 77 - 78 - 79 National Catalog the Square - Milan 1976 National Catalog Gelmi - Sesto San Giovanni (MI) 1977 - 78 - 79 Comanducci Yearbook - Milan 1977 Guide to Italian Art - Ancona 1977 The new Artistic Flap - Piacenza 1978 Basic Art - Turin 1979 Accademia Newsletter - Rome 1980 - 82 Bolaffi National Catalog - Turin 1982 Praxis Artistica - Rimini 1984 - 1985 Comed Yearbook - Milan 1984 The Golden Book of Contemporary Art - Milan 1984 Vademecum of the Art - Florence 1989 - 90 - 95 The Elite Italian Art Selection - Varese 1997 - 2000 Alba Dictionary - Ferrara 1994 - 97 - 99 TOP ART - Ancona 2005 Painters and Sculptors of the Twentieth Century - Castellammare di Stabia (NA) 2009 Arte Selezione Int.le the NEW Elite - Varese 2010 Census of Italian Artists - Palermo 2011 UNICEF Special Artists - Palermo 2012 The Elite Selection Art and. Artitalia - Varese Awards and Recognitions 1976 "Federico Faruffini" Award (second prize) - Sesto San Giovanni (MI) 1977 "Giacinto Gigante" Award (third prize) - Naples 1977 C. R. E. (first prize) Award - Chieti 1978 Dea Minerva Award (first prize) - Lecce 1978 Award of the European Parliament - Rome Award 1978 Quadrennial of Naples (third prize) - Naples 1978 Awarded Leon d’Oro - Florence 1978 "Villa Alessandra" Award (first prize for graphics) - Alanno (PE) 1979 Pratola Prize (first graphic prize) - Pratola Peligna (AQ) 1980 Awarding of the MID TIMES Award - Rome 1981 Award CULTURE FIDES Award - Vatican City 1982 Emigration Award (second prize) - Pratola Peligna (AQ) 1983 Awarding of the “Cesare d’Oro” Award - Verona 1985 TSUKUBA EXPO (reported) - Tokyo (Japan) 1987 "Maestri del Colore" Award (first prize) - Fidenza (PR) 1988 "A Life for Art" Award (first prize) - Milan 1990 Centenaire de la Tour Eiffel (Commission award) - Paris (France) 1991 "Famous Masters" Award (first prize) - Viareggio (LU) 1993 "Le Grand Arc" Award Award de la Defense - Paris (France) 1996 Award of the Byzantine Grand Prix - Istanbul (Turkey) 1997 Awarding of the Oscar of the Professionalism of Art - Latina 1998 Assignment of the City of Padua - Padua Trophy 1999 Awarding of the Career Prize - Ferrara 2000 London 2000 Award - London (England) 2014 "Squacciafìchere D.O.P." Award - Atessa (CH) 2014 "Artist For Peace" Colors and music for Human Rights - Brindisi

Associations

He has worked alongside and is associated with painters Renato Guttuso, Michele Cascella, and RAI journalist Giulio Borrelli. He has also been featured in several top-tier Italian publications such as Il Tempo, Il Messaggero and in 2016 Il centro. And in 2016 and 2017, at News Val di Sangro Abruzzo and Lanciano.

Numerous renowned individuals have also been interested in Minale’s artwork, including, Giuseppe Martucci, Katia D'Annunzio, Stefano Tenedini, Maria Carla Morbiducci, Vito Calogero, Mario Lanci, M. Milet, Gerardo Vittoria, Silvia Ramini, Bernard Gauthron, Ennio Bramato, Marina Marzoli, Nicola Scalisi, Renato Lamperini, Giorgio Carpaneto, Rossano Borzillo, Ennio Moro, Roberto Mangione, Guido Massarelli, Alex Capus, Fernando Sofra, Valerio Utri, Nello Punzo, Diego Castronovo, Giuseppe Rancitelli, Duilio Fornarola, Giuseppe Masci, Claudio Cattani, Angela Verardo, Nunzio Livrieri, Maria Delli Quadri, Giorgio Falossi, Lucia Di Cintio, and Enzo Carmine Delli Quadri.[1]

Personal Life

Minale was born in Agnone (Molise) in 1938.

He is married to Giuditta Giorgio and has three children with her, Maria, Rosalba, and Giulio.

References Gaetano Minale Gaetano Minale REALIZZAZIONE VOLUME DEI MIEI DIPINTI Gaetano Minale, 80 GAETANO MINALE PINACOTECA COMUNALE AD ATESSA ” GAETANO MINALE “ External links Official website www.gaetanominale.com

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