Gaetano Frigo
artigiano
Gaetano Frigo lives and works in Vicenza.
The elements that make Gaetano's work recognizable are certainly the silhouettes of the plants, omnipresent in all the paintings, and the characteristic way of working by subtraction on the colored cottons as if to lighten them, expressing a profound interest in the connection between nature, mental activities and physical health of human beings.
This medium, discovered in 2019, has become his favourite, although since 2016 he has experimented in various ways with markers dissolved in alcohol, mirrors and salt crystallisations, and still secretly enjoys creating other works attributable to nature and its transformations .
Before rediscovering his passion for the visual arts, he composed electronic music for ten years, finding out that sometimes ideas do not come from us but are an expression of the physical matter itself that uses us as a medium. Growing up watching his carpenter father create everything out of wood in their home, he assimilated and recognized the value of craftsmanship and attention to detail.
Formazione
Diploma graduated from Artistic High School, “Antonio Canova” higher education institute in Vicenza, Figurative Graphics, school year 2013/2014
Tematiche
Relationship between nature and psychophysical health of the human being
Tecniche
Bleaching
Salt crystallization
Alcorello, alchoholor
Mirror reflections playing
More
But bleaching more than other
Premi
2021 Cramum Award (MI) eighth edition, mention
2022 Cramum Award (MI) ninth edition, finalist
2022 Arte Laguna Prize (VE), sixteenth edition, finalist
2024 Teelent Art contest “Shape” (MI) finalist
2024 IMMAGINA (MAG Spa Group) (RO) MAXXI museum, finalist
Bibliografia
Collective exhibitions
2024 “Cinepixel” Villa Comunale of Roseto degli Abruzzi (TE), curated by Bruno Cerasi
2024 “Shape” Lucid Club (MI), curated by Teelent
2024 “Babele” Spazio Musa (TO), curator Lucrezia Nardi
2023 “Murato fuori non vi feci caso” Paratissima Nice & Fair, Cavallerizza Reale (TO)
2023 “Arte Laguna Prize” Arsenale Nord (VE), painting section
2022 “La Caduta” Cramum Award ninth edition, Central Market of Milan (MI), curator Sabino Maria Frassà
2020 “Oltre” Spazio Der Ruf, contrà Porta Padova (VI) curator Giovanna Grossato
2020 “D.N.A. Art of Life” Diocesan Museum of Vicenza, Piazza Duomo (VI) curated by the “Mauro Baschirotto” Rare Diseases Foundation
Personal exhibitions
2021 “E nel frattempo io…” Villa Cerchiari, Isola Vicentina (VI) curated by Giovanna Grossato
Artistic residencies
2023 Falía*, Lozio (BS) Valle Camonica
List of publications
2021 8° Cramum prize catalogue as special mention, page 64
2021 GDV (Giornale di Vicenza) (Vicenza Newspaper) of July 1, page 43
2022 9° Cramum Prize catalogue as finalist, page 48
2022 GDV of April 20, page 38
2023 “Scusate il disturbo” catalogue of charity auction held at the PAC in Milan and auctioned by Sotheby’s
2023 GDV of July 29, page 41
2024 Falia* Air catalogue of the 2023 artists in residence works, page 20 & 48
2024 The Artbook by Teelent Art N°16 as finalist of “Shape” contest, page 74