CONCETTA CARLEO - Italy

CONTACTS: concettacarleo@tiscali.it

Colors in the Wind No. 1

Mediterranean

acrylic on canvas cm 60 x 80

acrylic on canvas 60 x 80 cm

Colors in the Wind No. 2

In the shade of camellias

acrylic on canvas 60 x 80 cm

acrylic on canvas cm 60 x 40

In Paola's garden

acrylic on canvas cm 80 x 60

The memory of time

acrylic on canvas cm 50 x 150

About Her Art

Salerno-born artist, graduated from the State Institute of Art in 1979, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, attending the course at the Free School of the Nude.

She has taken part in numerous group shows, solo exhibitions and competitions in Italy and abroad, with works appreciated and awarded by critics.
She has exhibited in Italy in: Salerno; Benevento; Naples (Galleria Giosi 2005 - Maschio Angioino 2006 - Castel dell’ Ovo 2010-Palazzo delle Arti PAN 2015) ; Rome 2005,2011,2012,Nemi-Roman Castles 2017; Assisi (-Perugia-Assisi peace march, installation 2005); Genoa; Viterbo (Vitarte-Modern and Contemporary Art market exhibition 2007); Palermo; Alberobello; Nuoro; Florence; Bologna; Varese; Spoleto (International Contemporary Art Fair “Spoleto Festival Art Expò 2015); Messina; Matera; Perugia; Sorrento.
Abroad in: Monte Carlo – Port Palace Hotel (2007);
Santiago de Compostela -Centro Empresarial do Tambre (Spain, 2012);
Pazardjik – solo show on the occasion of the week of Art and Culture (Bulgaria, 2013);
Marrackeh-Cafetieria Glacier Dino-International Art Exhibition (Morocco2014);
11th Arts Festival at the Casino Municipal de La Bouboule (France2014).
.Dubai-Italian Art Fair-Dubai Community Theatre & Arts Centre.:Mall of the Emirates (Dubai 2015)

Written about her: G.Taddeo, V.Quarta, F.D’Episcopo, G.Giannetti, E.Ostrica, M.Mastrangelo, L.Crescibene
A.Mariano, R.Coppola, S.Telese, L.Bruno, I.Rampino, A.Pasolino., G.Siano, A.Palumbo, A.Calabrese, E.D’Auria,C. Galluzzo, A.Cortese, U.Lamparelli.

Her works are displayed in public and private collections.

.....Freshness, brightness, the beauty of simplicity, serenity, the clarity of the stroke, the perfection of detail, and mastery of technique characterize the works of the artist Concetta Carleo.
The apparent simplicity of the settings and depictions comes from a command of technique, evident both in the overall view of the work and in observing the careful, refined research of details.

The spontaneity of the figures’ poses and the atmosphere of the setting constantly let a sensuality show through—almost a disquieting wink to the senses, a gentle eroticism that emerges in every brushstroke and in the sinuosity of the forms....

Dr. S. Telese

.....Carleo paints beauty, nature, its shadows, its flashes, its trembling languors, its voluptuous invitations, its embraces, far away. And its fading horizons, vivid and muted, misty, lush, rarefied; the sunlight, clear and washed in half-tones, in chiaroscuro; the wandering, dimmed moon over the sea—all connect, with stubborn resistance, to human joy and suffering.
Harmonic color becomes an ethereal pulse; beauty seems to withdraw, to fade and moan, to shine, to sparkle, to exhaust itself.
And solitude, melancholy, existential unease stand out, clear, beyond real substance; they become voices, loud and faint and then whispers; feeble longings, chirps, murmurs, rustles, deliriums.
The artist, with measured technical wisdom, seeks and finds compositional balance.
Color is bestowed with restrained balance. Tones decline, slide one over the other without discord, without imbalance. The sinuous, pliant, compliant line sharply defines the color.
It follows it, guides it, merges into it, dissolves, withdraws, disappears. And harmony reigns absolute, amid superhuman silences, spaces circumscribed yet immense, dispersing, far away, amid tender backdrops and expectations scratched onto the screen of memory, in a light and disjointed weave, passionate with a yearning for the sublime beyond the corrosive and impenetrable substance of everyday life.
Concetta Carleo, with a cursus honorum studded with prestigious recognitions, refines her artistic communication, seeking new expressive modulations that evoke her artistic world without outright upheavals. Her silences, the fragility, the defenselessness of modern man, abandonments, discouragements, renunciations, silences will again find their crystallization in her colors, in her precious luminism, in her subtle, shifting transparencies, in her shimmering veins, in the aristocratic pulses of her soul reflected on the canvas.

L.Crescibene (critic and writer)

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