Biography
Luigi Cerqua expresses his art with a personal and unusual pictorial language, particularly appreciated by the galleries and collectors, he is considered a painter expressionist or "fauves". The fauvisme was founded by Matisse in 1904, lasted only 4 years since it loosened in 1908, it represents one important period in the history of the modern art. Distant from the precision of the structure, from the photographic evocation of the nature, the art works of Luigi Cerqua are characterized by a painting of strong feelings, violent, express with pure colors and approached according to a new conception, he completely abandons his self to the transposition of the color, through a cromatic gotten with large spatulate, floods of raw color that represent the strength his paint. His jobs are present in some churches in Naples, in the church of the "Fiorentini" in Plazza degli Artisti, are exposed 14 bas-reliefs of the Street Crucis and in Via Aniello Falcone is exposed a Christ of bronze of 4 meters high.
Luigi Cerqua was born in Naples in 1938 where alive and he works, teaches modern paint and it is a point of reference for different young painters.
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Critique
It first of all presses me to say that the contemporary play of the alienation as is spiritual of estrangement, of dismay, of dispersion is away from the Cerqua from it’s conception of the world and vision of the life. He is open to the reality, in immediate meaning of "all of this that exists" to " all of this that we can say that it is", to that dimension of the perception that is not only the empirical datum, but the transfiguration of the sensitive one brought to the level of the intelligible one. The reality that surrounds us is very more complex and elusive respect to that it was not to the beginning of this tormented and tragic nine hundred, but we can found the ideal matrix of Luigi Cerqua in to the expressionism and in the "fauves". I am convinced that the mild Cerqua reveals his deeper nature in the painting. The employment of raw tones is not in demand from the alone desire to refine their associations and their oppositions. It represents, instead, a demonstration of the strength of the color, a considered color as constructive subject.
The meekness of the man becomes opposition, rebellion, violence, lyric tragic in artist Cerqua's pictorial work.
Attilio Peduto
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Collective and Extemporaneous:
2nd International Quadrennial of figurative art - Naples 1962
National exhibition of sacred art - "Mostra D’Oltremare" Naples 1962
International exhibition of sacred art - Vatican Rome 1962
3rd National Prize for Painting - City of Ariano 1965
Exhibition of sacred art "UCAI" - Naples 1966
Exhibition of the tablet "UCAI" - Naples 1966
International exhibition of painting "Napoli1966" - Naples 1966
Exhibition of figurative art "ACLI" - Naples 1967 and 1968
International exhibition of figurative art "Nuovi Orizzonti" - Rome 1972
International exhibition of figurative art "Estate Vesuviana" - Naples 1972
International exhibition of figurative art "Ottobre Napoletano" - Naples
3° National Biennial of painting "Premio Chiaiano".
Trophy city of Naples - Naples 1972
Artistic Circle Polytechnic - Naples
National Exhibition Small Format - Torre Del Greco Naples
Casciaro Prize - Seiano 1973
Exhibition "The Flowers of Nature" - Torre Del Greco 1973
Migliaro Prize 1974
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Personal exibithinos:
Sorrento 1980 and 1981
Vico Equense "La Scogliera" 1982
Vico Equense "La Sentinella" 1983
Rome UCAI 1984
Bari Sporting Club 1985 and 1987
Lecce 1988
Sorrento "L'Approdo" Club 1990 1991
Naples 1994 1995
Naples 1999 2001
Permanent exposure to the Museum Ducal Building of S. Arpino (Na)
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Publications:
Bolaffi n° 10
Il Quadrante delle Arti
Napoli Notte Novembre 1972
La fiera letteraria Aprile 1974
Il Mattino Aprile 1974
Pittori Napoletani del 900