Gaetano Fiore (San Giorgio a Cremano, 1960) lives and works in Treviglio, where he teaches Multimedia Design at the Zenale and Butinone Institute. His artistic practice is a "mode of observation": like a scientist or an astronomer of the soul, Fiore uses color to make the unimaginable dimensions of the spirit visible.
He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where between 1979 and 1984 he collaborated with Gennaro Vitiello's Libera Scena Ensemble, designing sets for experimental theater. After interacting with masters such as Renato Barisani and Salvatore Emblema, he developed an analytical style of painting that metabolizes the transcendence of Mark Rothko, debuting with his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1987. His encounter with the German scholar Andrea Petrai and later with Professor Paolo Puppa reopens a season of research inspired by the theater and poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, leading him to a major exhibition on the Côte d'Azur in Germany and subsequently at the Dom Museum in Würzburg with the project "Stimmen in Farben." His passion for jazz music, and especially free jazz (Carlos Ward, Bill Dixon), sparked the creation of works where sound materializes in painting, as in the installations in San Vincenzo, Lecco, Bergamo, and Milan. In 2024, he held a major solo exhibition, "Bosco nel bosco," at Casa Esagono (Baratti), a dialogue between his works and the visionary architecture of Vittorio Giorgini. His current painting, influenced by masters such as Previati and Sutherland, explores the theme of the sacred through the abstraction of natural forms. Examples include the Crucifixion and the series of "icon-caskets" from 2022, where branches smoothed by the sea become "architectures of pain" and relics of nature.
In addition to boasting works in prestigious museum collections, his works have been chosen as covers for publishers such as Mondadori, Titivillus, Bulzoni, Supernova and Cue Press.