Vittorio Amadio

An artist at home with the chisel and the brush, the engravers tool and the anvil, the pottery wheel and water-colors on paper, his skills are omnipresent as his whirling energies attack whichever medium strikes him at a given moment.  Equally adept in many milieus, his astonishing work captures movement and color and stirring intensity which is always captivating, always provocative, always energetic and always pleasing.  His eclecticism is evident, his theories provocative.

The art critic Joan-Lluis Montane wrote:  "As a painter, sculptor, ceramist, medallist and engraver, Vittorio Amadio is a creator who transforms all concepts and disciplines in which his work develops, unifying sides of the concepts in the clear meaning of this term to obtain through the sequence of contrary and contrasting elements one single idea, that about life and the intensity of existence; about life because art is life and adds intensity to the existence.  And if there is existential intensity it is because man has learned, or better still understood the reasons for his own existence."

Living and working in a sixteenth century building in the beautiful countryside above Rome, this intense Italian continues to devote his entire being to Art, a veritable whirling dervish of activity as his rather diminutive, muscular stature, adorned with a flowing beard of biblical proportions, attacks monumental works.  His personal intensity becomes immediately apparent in his works, in whichever medium he is working, and his constant artistic growth is a joy to behold.