Angelo Arrigo® - Profile

A true citizen of the World, Italian born (1967) Angelo has lived in Italy, Germany, Finland, Sweden, France, Denmark, Belgium, England, Brazil, and (2002-2005) Guernsey, where he determined to contribute formaking such values as peace, culture and education, spreading all over the world by means of his timeless images of his art works. Since Angelo’s first stunning collection was launched later in 2004, he has taken the art world by storm and his innovative, emotional/impressive , figurative images have achieved the enviable status of genuine collector’s items. This exceptional artist exploded onto the international scene two years ago, and has since captivated an entire generation of art lovers. His phenomenal Original Paintings have become some of the most sought after pieces on the contemporary art market. His well known painting “L’uomo e il karma” enjoys a huge following worldwide. It became his brand, together with the concept “the completeness of the Incomplete”. “L’uomo e il Karma”has established him firmly at the forefront of the fine art community. His innovative style such as in “Ombre” has made an exceptional impact on the international market over the last year. As Angelo Arrigo’s main interest is focused on building bridges of dialogue, he doesn’t generally like the narrow mentality, within which, unfortunately, the galleries are very often forced to act out of their own particular business interest only. Instead he has a predilection for a direct contact with the people willing to buy his artworks. As “citizen of the world” his constant thought is for people of whatever kind, age, gender, place, believes, culture, uses, in order to make his artworks working as ideal context where two and more human beings could develop bridges of sincere and passionate dialogue, through sharing such emotions provoked by his fine art paintings. On the contrary, the art galleries are usually too far from such a context, because of they are the slave of the logic of the fine art sector/market, and of other interests too. Such things are very distant from the kind of relationships and people/“citizens of the world” which Angelo Arrigo is focused on. His aim is to make emotions (originated from his artworks) flow heart by heart. Dicember 2004 –Solo Exhibition by Trinity Court, Lower Vauvert, St.Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands. January 2005 – Solo Exhibition by Maison Villocq, Le Villocq – Câtel, GUERNSEY, Channel Islands. Since July 2005 – Permanent Solo Exhibition by Le Cru, 23 The Quay, St.PeterPort, Guernsey. July 2005 – Angelo Arrigo, during the meeting with the Art Development Officerof Guernsey States, launched his proposal to set up an artistic path of large format projections by the walls of the public buildings throughout the centre of St. Peter Port. October 2005 Solo Exhibition at 58th, av. De la Renaissance, Bruxelles- Brussel, Belgique. July 2006The Visual artworks of Angelo Arrigo for the stage designing of the opera “Cagliostro Nobile Viaggiatore”.- Palermo (Italy-Sicily) – 2nd, 10th, 11th June 2006- The opera “Cagliostro Nobile Viaggiatore” has been performed at the monumental building “Santa Maria dello Spasimo”. Angelo Arrigo has directed the stage designing and all the aspects of the visual arts by projecting the images of seven of his most famous fine art paintings. (In particular, the opera, between the 4th and the 9th scene (the last one), has benefited from the experience of the cosmopolitan author of visual arts/fine art painting/ set & stage designing, Angelo Arrigo, as well as from a wide and impressive mix of special visual effects (lighting,etc…) and projections of seven of his visual art masterpieces (Ombre, Trasformation, L’uomo e il karma, Tentacles of the Consciousness, Abysmal distances, Untitled 1, and detail of sky with ray of sunlight , from “Parent & child- Dialogues about Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo, the fundamental Law of the Life andthe Universe”), which revealed themselves to be a decisive factor to sketchthe innovative portrait of Cagliostro’s character, proposed by Ninetta Cangialosi, after she having been studied Cagliostro in depth for several years). August 2006 – Angelo Arrigo Performance of Visual Art works, by via Piano di Gallo 50, Mondello, Palermo, Italia. September 2006 – Solo Exhibition at 58th, av. De la Renaissance, Bruxelles- Brussel, Belgio. Since October 2006 – Angelo Arrigo is on The Saatchi Gallery virtual exhibition: London Contemporary Art Gallery. Charles Saatchi: “Hello, Very happy to see your work on the gallery….I am thrilled that the standard is so high …..and hope it will be interesting to gallery owners, exhibition curators and collectors to see such diverse work.All my best,Charles Saatchi”. April 2007 – Group Exhibition, Museo Dicesano by Piazza del Duomo, in Piazza Armerina (EN), Italy. 2008 – Start-up of the international network "Angelo Arrigo- The Completeness of the Incomplete", and distribution of the artist's valued and renowed sisgned edition giclée prints and posters on canvas, through Angelo Arrigo's passionate ambassadors (galleries/dealers/partners/independent points of purchase, etc) joining his network all over the planet.