Born in Agropoli Italy, Giocondo creates deeply emotive and engaging paintings which tend to capture a subject’s fleeting form whilst exploring the human condition juxtaposed with visual plays on the sublime and grotesque. The scenes and subjects are dramatised through Giocondo’s theatrical lighting and coloration which references the Old Masters of the Renaissance. Time is frozen but his works are never static. In his studio, characters become ghosts.
The flabby muscle, the distorted faces, annihilation and the nihilist’s indifference towards the viewer show how a shape can autonomously evoke another feeling. Power or tension. Fear or elation. Giocondo carves into the figures in a never-ending search for the final form. Giocondo’s selected medium oils and process of painting provides the opportunity for reflection and to see the implications of each shape and colour forming within the work.
The audience becomes a spectator to a private moment. Our voyeuristic tendencies and morbid curiosities are aroused by Giocondo’s uncanny subjects and what may be deemed by some as his antiquated painting style.
Artist CV
EXHIBITIONS 2019 La Bellezza Del Mostro , traffic jam galleries online solo exhibition
2018 The fallen human, Campagna, Salerno MUSEO della memoria Palazzo Palatucci
2017 Beauty of the beast, Mia Arte, Parma
2017 Agerola Arte, Casa della Corte, Agerola
2017 Vacum, Made in Salerno Gallery, Salerno
2016 The fallen human, Jugglers Gallery, Brisbane Australia
2016 CORSO VENEZIA , Art found Gallery & Studio, Milano
2015 Incontri Arte, Presso Milano
2015 1+1+1, Presso Arco Catalano Palazzo Pinto, Salerno
2014 Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea PAGEA, Presso, Angri
2014 NUEVE BLANCO, Place of Art Carmine Pandolfi, Agropoli
2013 Fuori Orario, Agropoli
2012 The Nihilist, Piazza Bellini Napoli
2011 The Sense of the Sacred, Vatican Gallery ,LaPigna Roma
2011 Deux Vision De L’Art, Aragonese Castle Agropoli
2008 Exhibition space Frida, Milan
AWARDS 2018 Concorso Internaz. Di Pittura Città di Trivero (BI) (2°classificato)
2015 Concorso Internaz. Di Pittura Città di Sarezzo (BS) (2°classificato)
2015 Concorso Internaz. Di Pittura Città di Corchiano (1°classificato)
2014 CORCHIANO (Ranked 4th Ex-equo)
2014 TREVISO (1st Ex-equo out of 400 works)
2014 Concorso Internaz. Di Pittura S.Gimignano (1° Classificato)
2013 FIGHILLE (Critics Award)
2013 COSSATO (Prize of the Jury)
2012 CORCHIANO(VT)-1° International Competition of painting and sculpture(Ranked 1st out of 102 artists)
2012 CORCHIANO(VT)-1° International Competition of painting and sculpture(Ranked 1st out of 102 artists)
