Biography
Arturo Ianniello was born in Salerno in 1982.
He approaches the world of art since his teenage years.
After high school, he enrolled at the Academy of Art in Naples, near the chair of professor Ciriaco Campus, where he continues his personal journey already undertaken before his enrollment in the Academy.
Ianniello’s research on the materials aims particularly to a result of synthesis: in his work the global merges with the local, the tradition with the avant-garde, the readymade with constructive and formal demands that take us back to the age of the making of art. And this doesn’t happen for a naïve anachronism, but for a rational and conscious choice: a choice of starting again from the 50s, when the use of heavy and ‘responsible’ materials like metal, particularly loved by Ianniello, was imposed, and when the new language of the conceptual and the “arte povera” hadn’t interposed yet an insurmountable diaphragm between the work and the artist, his life and his scars.
The way of working of this singular sculptor (but probably it would be more appropriate to define him a painter) contradicts the nature itself of the materials that have been used: the metals reclaimed by Ianniello are restless and sentient, suspended between organic nature and mineral oblivium, real and precious receptacles of memory. They come from old craft workshops, abandoned farms, industrial archaeology deposits, found in the Vallo di Diano and Alburni Mountains area.
The postmodern gives way to the revaluation of the modern. The ornamental, superficial, rash elements are left away in name of the essential and rigorous, nuclear, introspective elements.
