Vito Stramaglia
Early in life Vito Stramaglia had a love-hate relationship with paint.
As an athletic young student, he actively practiced competitive sports. While pursuing his dream of becoming a professional boxer he was also grappling with a strong impulse to paint.
In the end, his love of paint and the act of painting won.
Vito’s abundant curiosity about the world led him to study quantum physics and to delve into the spiritual world. From these building blocks came a personal vision of life, which he translates into art. In his paintings, form is crushed, manipulated and scratched until it is lost in the “all”.
“I think my work is the result of something bigger than me and amazes me when I look at it. I’m simply a performer in the act of painting. I hope to convey to the world the beauty of life, where nothing can be explained, and everything is in balance.
When I paint, I am not using my mind, but only my heart. Rationality disappears and gives way to introspection, and my soul chooses the subjects and the manner of representing them. Because form is an invention of rationality, my characters are undefined and instead are interconnected to their surroundings and to each other.”
Stramaglia employs impasto painting with a dramatic and liberal integration of dark colours. He elevates common, everyday subjects to extraordinary heights through boldly elegant technique and uses darkness to reveal the light. CV
As an athletic young student, he actively practiced competitive sports. While pursuing his dream of becoming a professional boxer he was also grappling with a strong impulse to paint.
In the end, his love of paint and the act of painting won.
Vito’s abundant curiosity about the world led him to study quantum physics and to delve into the spiritual world. From these building blocks came a personal vision of life, which he translates into art. In his paintings, form is crushed, manipulated and scratched until it is lost in the “all”.
“I think my work is the result of something bigger than me and amazes me when I look at it. I’m simply a performer in the act of painting. I hope to convey to the world the beauty of life, where nothing can be explained, and everything is in balance.
When I paint, I am not using my mind, but only my heart. Rationality disappears and gives way to introspection, and my soul chooses the subjects and the manner of representing them. Because form is an invention of rationality, my characters are undefined and instead are interconnected to their surroundings and to each other.”
Stramaglia employs impasto painting with a dramatic and liberal integration of dark colours. He elevates common, everyday subjects to extraordinary heights through boldly elegant technique and uses darkness to reveal the light. CV
