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ENZO BRISCESE  - Italy

Contacts:  galleriariele@gmail.com

The naked truth

The silent saint

oil on canvas 70 x 80 cm

oil on canvas cm 70 x 80

Entropy

The old man and his dog

oil on canvas cm 70 x 80

oil on canvas cm 70 x 80

The old man and his thoughts

The construction of the ideal

oil on canvas 70 x 80 cm

oil on canvas cm 35 x 45

About his Art

Enzo Briscese

Born in Venosa in Basilicata. Lives and works in Turin. He began his first artistic studies with maestro Lillo Dellino from Bari. He grew up in an intellectually stimulating environment, frequented by musicians, writers, and artists.

In his early youth, he moved to Turin where he attended the drawing studio of master Giacomo Soffiantino and later the atelier of Giorgio Ramella.

In the city of Turin, where he opens a drawing and painting workshop, he engages with various important experiences in the field of visual arts. Among these, it is worth highlighting the launch of the Ariele Cultural Center, still active today, the management of exhibition spaces, and the creation of an art magazine distributed nationwide.

As a painter, he develops, through a personal and rigorous research, a poetics consistent with his social commitment but, above all, capable of communicating his expressive strength thanks to the assured rendering of the line and a refined use of color. The thematic cycles follow one another, employing different languages within the paths of figurative and abstract art, rich in historical references and skillful contaminations.

He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions.

Recent exhibitions

2005 –   solo exhibition Piemonte Artistico e Culturale – Turin – Pictorial Dialogues

2006 –   solo exhibition Galleria Antigone – Dolceacqua – Imperia –

        -     Personal Galerie Brehova Prague “Italian Masters in Prague”

2007 –   Ars Habitat Gallery – Global intuition of form and color – Genoa

        -     Atelie Chagall – Landscapes of Memory – Milan

        -     Historical Archive of the 20th Century – The Reasons of the Heart – Milan

        -     Solo exhibition Galleria Ariele – “Urban landscape”- Turin

        -     Finalist at the third Biennale of Pero – Milan

        -     Solo exhibition Galerie Brehova – Prague

        -     Ariele Gallery Solo Exhibition - “Abandoned Factories”– Turin

          -   Galleria Ariele – Contemporary art exhibition - Turin

          -   Solo exhibition Ariele Gallery – Turin

          -   Il Rivellino Gallery - Ferrara

2010 -     Zamenhof Gallery – “Post-avant-garde” - Milan

        -     Estense Castle – Ferrara

2011 - group exhibition Ariele gallery – Turin

2012 - group exhibition Ariele Gallery – “Among Visual Languages” - Turin

        -     Solo exhibition Ariele Gallery – Turin

        -     Group Exhibition Ariele Gallery – Turin

2013 -     solo exhibition Ariele Gallery – Turin

         -     Group Exhibition Galleria20   – Turin

2014 –   solo exhibition Galleria20 – Turin

        -     Group exhibition at the Quisisana direction in Castellamare di Stabia (NA)

2015   - solo exhibition Galleria20 – “Languages in motion”- Turin

2016  - Group exhibition Galleria20- “Horizon of contemporary art” – Turin

          - Group Exhibition Galleria20– “Research Paths” -Turin

          - Collective Ecomuseum Turin – Turin

2017  - Group exhibition Palazzo Opesso - “Spring in Art” - Chieri

          - Collective Exhibition Galleria A. da Messina - “Abstract Expressionism & Informal Art” - Legnano (MI)

          - Group Exhibition - “Christmas Art Expo” - Ecomuseum - Turin

          - Collective Simultanea Arte Gallery - “From the sign to the color” - Florence

2019 - Astrattissima 2019

-          ArtParmaFair – Parma March

-         Bari Fair

-         ArtParmaFair – Parma October

2020 - ArtParmaFair – Parma March

  The Critique

Enzo Briscese is an author of visions relived in a dialectic of engaging moments. He favors the decomposition of planes, as a visionary exploration and cultured conceptual research, which takes up the Cubist and Constructivist thought of the early twentieth century. This painting gracefully reaffirms the possibility of arcane moments, thanks to a scenario where figurative reminiscences, more or less explicit, combine in a lyrically informal context, creating a microcosm that recomposes itself into a reasoned and coherent unicum, through signals and allusive references. Vibrate

unexpressed feelings in these surveys of events, whose meaning remains nonetheless suspended and accessible only as intuition. The visual path translates into a quick, elegant line, and into a transparent, light material, in its own way dialoguing, and poetically harmonized in tonal games. It can well be said how much Briscese is a painter of positivity, even when his visions

take on the appearance of an elusive reality; in fact, there is no conflict in these compositions where the unconscious is not a disturbing darkness, but a clarifying, autobiographical process one might say, which opens to the gaze as a welcoming repertoire of tenderly everyday objects, wrapped in the hypnotic sweetness and muffled silence of a metaphysical space. Briscese reveals himself here as a skilled

manipulator of a reality pushed to the limits of the absurd, and yet the author of a truthful, reliable narrative, open to sharing. His pictorial culture, overcoming the conflict between figuration and the informal, is rooted in the Museum of the last century, but it must also be said that this reference only partially explains the multifaceted truth of his work, where the echoes of our unsettling daily life resound clearly.

                                                                            Paolo Levi

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