Unlike many contemporary painters, Marco Ceravolo does not set out to shock his public by using a series of provocative images, nor does he belong to any of the numerous neo-avant-garde movements.  With roots in Greek, Roman and Etruscan art, his paintings, linked incontrovertibly to the past, are nonetheless highly innovative and provocative.

The juxtaposition of a highly diverse range of unconventional materials, from wood to textile, to stucco, canvas and board, along with old wood and rope, his works emerge as completely atypical and highly imaginative.

His female figurative compositions, the so-called “cenacoli feminili” are a perfect example of Ceravolo’s diversity.  While the hieratic, silent figures and clear geometric forms pay homage to Giotto and Piero della Francesca, the paintings are imbued with a modernity that corrodes traditional iconography.  Not unlike Hockney, Ceravolo has the ability to embrace formalist precepts in his exploration of spatial frontality to achieve artistic statements without equal.  Ceravolo admits that many mysteries lurk within his paintings.  As one looks very carefully, a multitude of hidden elements begin to emerge.

Ceravolo’s landscapes, with their strips of sand, sackcloth and canvas, impregnated with intense warm colors, strong seas, skies and earth, unite to create bold, geometric images ironically devoid of human presence.

 Born in Bergamo, in northern Italy, he still lives and works in his natal environs.