Biography
Pasquale Rapicano is a multi-material artist capable of immortalizing faces of strong impact, giving evocative and magnetic works in a succession of metaphors of life.
Pasquale Rapicano's works trace paths towards the past, giving shape to worn figurations, in which different ferrous materials, s...
Pasquale Rapicano is a multi-material artist capable of immortalizing faces of strong impact, giving evocative and magnetic works in a succession of metaphors of life.
Pasquale Rapicano's works trace paths towards the past, giving shape to worn figurations, in which different ferrous materials, sand, paper and jute find space, in harmonious creations in which the details through which the artist communicates his life are enhanced. in the world.
Pasquale Rapicano was born in 1971, in Castellammare di Stabia, in the province of Naples.
From an early age, his ability to draw emerges overwhelmingly, accompanied by a curiosity for art that will emerge later, around the age of 27, when Rapicano begins to experiment with oil colors and acrylics on canvases. that feels.
Thus begins a communicative journey that the artist carries out with superb skill, giving free rein to emotions.
Over time, its distinctive element becomes rust, a metaphor for the distortions of the world, placed in contrast to human and animal figures, which propose positivity through their being alive.
Pasquale Rapicano's painting is multi-material, works of art in which the artist not only paints, but digs in the sand, builds, demolishes and reconstructs worlds that tell feelings and ideas that arise from the depths to arouse emotions in the observer.
Nails, screws and bolts emerge from the sand, paper and jute applied to the canvases that hook the material to the figuration, in an exaltation of the details that Rapicano uses in his works.
Rust, elaborated through years of study of color, seems to attack the faces of the artist of Neapolitan origins, yet it never manages to suffocate their lively and expressive features, because, as the painter seems to suggest, in the end good always triumphs, in an overbearing and clear exaltation of the message conveyed with his Art.
