GIUSEPPE ROCCA - Italy
Contacts: peppinorocca1958@gmail.com Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/Giusepperoccadipintore
Two pomegranates with bag
Still life with angel
oil on board cm 55 x 65
Oil on board 60 x 60 cm
The serenade
Still life with pomegranates and persimmons
oil on board 50 x 70 cm
oil on canvas cm 100 x 110
The puppeteer
Misperception of the world
oil on board 80 x 80 cm
oil on board 80 x 80 cm
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About his Art
Giuseppe Rocca was born in Borgia, Calabria in 1958. Painter, engraver, and cartoonist, he is qualified to teach visual arts; he graduated in the painting section of the Academy of Fine Arts of Catanzaro in 1983. After just five months of teaching, he definitively left the school path to devote himself professionally to painting and etching, and to the revival of the "Renaissance workshop" when technique was the result of alchemical knowledge and Leonardo studied painting as a science. He has achieved many successes nationally and internationally. In 1977 and 1980, he won first place in the national painting competition organized by the Calabrian Cultural Union (Catanzaro); in 1989, he won the major national competition organized by the art magazine D&D (Disegnare e Dipingere), published in Milan, out of 2,316 participants. For the occasion, the magazine dedicated a large color feature to him and he was awarded in Stresa at the Congress Palace; in the same year, the Province of Catanzaro organized his first solo exhibition with a catalog and color poster entitled "Divisionismi"; Rocca was named painter of the year 1994 by the national yearbook A.C.C.A of Rome, which published the award event. In the same year, he participated in the first Italian modern art group exhibition in Tokyo for the Bordini group; in 1992, he was among the winners of the "ARTE" prize organized by the national magazine of the same name by Mondadori and for this he participated in the group painting exhibition at the prestigious Finarte auction house in Milan; Success came with the first prize "Lorenzo il Magnifico" at the INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART in Florence in 1999, among representatives from 31 nations. A large color feature on his painting by the well-known Prof. John T. Spike was published in the international magazine ART&ANTIQUES in Atlanta (Georgia) in March 2001, and in the same year he was commissioned a cycle of six large panels on Saint Barbara, permanently exhibited at Palazzo Canale in Amaroni, and two entrance diptychs for the city hall of Borgia; the historic magazine BRUTIUM dedicated its cover to him in December 2002; one of his paintings on the life of Saint Barbara was published in the encyclopedia "THE SAINTS IN HISTORY" edited by Edizioni San Paolo and Famiglia Cristiana in 2006; he was invited to the national exhibition "PAINTING RECOGNITION" on professional painters in Calabria at Palazzo Santa Chiara in Cosenza for the province (catalog); He directed the etching course at the "Mattia Preti" Civic Museum in Taverna; He has held many solo and group exhibitions, including at the Galleria Della Tartaruga "MY MIDDLE AGES" in Via Sistina in Rome in 1987, at the Trifalco gallery also in Rome, "DREAMED REALITIES" at the Civic Museum of Taverna in 2001, "ALCANTARA" (water of hard stone) at the IL Gabbiano gallery in Messina in 2011, and at the TeodorArteGallery "NOSTALGIA OF THE SAILOR" in 2014 in Catanzaro. As a satirical cartoonist, he collaborated for over ten years under the pseudonym GIURO with "Calabria," the monthly magazine of the Regional Council of Calabria. Numerous are the folders of etchings for national congresses, public and private entities, as well as the many covers Rocca made for the national parapsychology magazine IL GIORNALE DEI MISTERI. Since March 2013, some of his etchings in honor of Mattia Preti, in the exhibition dedicated to him for the fourth centenary of his birth, have been permanently exhibited in some American museums such as the Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. There have been many television features on Rocca's painting. His works are present in public and private collections.