Wladimiro Politano Explained

Wladimiro Politano
Birth Date:February 19, 1940
Birth Place:Lago, Calabria, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Known For:Painting, Drawing, Sculpture
Training:Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
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Spouse:Clementina Di Ruggiero

Wladimiro Politano (February 19, 1940 Lago (Cosenza), Italy) is an Italian sculptor, painter and drawer.

Politano's work has been exhibited in the United States, Latin America and Europe.

Background

Born in Italy, Politano graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. He lived in Rome until 1966, when he moved to Caracas, Venezuela. Seven years later he went to New York where he lived for ten years. During this period of time Politano participated in different public and private exhibitions in the United States, Austria, Japan, Venezuela and Italy.

In 1978, the Vienna Künstlerhaus invited Politano to celebrate the One Hundred Years of the Künstlerhause Museum. In July 1980, the city of New Rochelle N.Y. awarded him the title “Commendatio ”.

In 1981, Politano helped inaugurate the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama Toyama-Shi, Japan. The museum has two Politano paintings are present in permanent exhibition. In Florida, he received the Sylvia Daro Dawidowicz International Award.

In 1983, Politano returns to Caracas to work with both private and public projects. He participated in Caracas to "Escultura Symposium 1985" and his model remained as a symbol of the "VIII Biennale of Architecture" in the "Museo de Bellas Artes" . This sculpture is called "Puntas de Plata" and is in permanent exhibition at the Caracas's Metro, Station "El Silencio”. Politano in this period lived and worked between Venezuela, Italy and Sweden.

In 2003, Politan was invited as a curator and artist to participate in the "II Biennial of Painting" in Konstgall Väsby, Stockholm, Sweden. He was invited to the first International Sculpture Symposium 2007 SIEIM made in 'Margarita Island, Nueva Esparta Venezuela. Politano received "The Italy in the World Award" from the President of Italy.

Today, Politano lives between Caracas, Rome, Lago-Calabria and Stockholm.

Critics

“Wladimiro Politano is essentially Latin due to his Italian origin, and Latin American because of his life and work in Venezuela and the realismo mágico (magical realism) present in his painting –a type of expression considered as pragmatic and definitive of Latin American fabulist imagination. One cannot disregard what lingers of New York in the artist, since he lived for ten years in this city, where his work was exhibited many times. Therefore, Politano’s art is literally a globalized art, although it is envisioned from Venezuela.In the present phase of his production, distant already from Geometric Abstractionism (except in some of his steel sculptures), Politano has matured a new artistic language, proper, very personal, enriched by a coherent formal vocabulary and a thematic repertoire that centers on the human figure. It is a non-realistic figure, not intended to describe its visual appearance or to serve in analytic speculation, but to allude, lyrically. To a general human condition in the midst of unreal and metaphoric scenes.These paintings move about in an atmosphere of deferred effusiveness, of watchfulness, of doubt, of silence, of coldness. Yet, inside, there is a burning fire perceived in the images, affording them a secret and intense underlying life.”[1]

”Today is a great day for the artist that we have the honour to introduce to you; a great day for Politano, since it becomes visible that a new era of rewards to his efforts begins, his desire to project himself in an international way taking with him, as Italian-Venezuelan, the Italian and Venezuelan flags interweaved, with his message of humanity, faith and peace to the whole world.With great modesty, one of his characteristics, that is well known by all those living near him, he wants to pay his respects and gratefulness to Venezuela, very much loved foster country, where under its purest tropical lights he received his creative inspiration with which he later created his work of art; also to all his friends and art collectors, that had and unbreakable faith in him and his art from the beginning of his career. This new stage in Politano´s art offer an extraordinary sensitive strength, a complete security in the composition of volume, the plastic balance and a personal style that expresses the honesty of the emotions and the absolute control of the craft. Is our sincere conviction that this sample of Politano´s art will get through to the hearts of those that contemplate it and for those searching something more than plane sympathetic co-efficiency in a picture, this exhibition will fill with complete satisfaction the lovers of today’s modern art.“[2]

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Awards

Public project

Selected solo exhibitions

Collective Art exhibitions

Public & Private collections

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Notes and References

  1. Written by the art critic Peran ERMINY (Politano Art Catalog, Venezuela, 2002)http://www.medicci.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=173&Itemid=301
  2. Written by Bernard BRENNER .Caracas, 1972

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