Corrado Battistoni Arts

Corrado Vittorio Battistoni was born in Perugia in 1984, where he studied and earned a high school diploma from the "Pietro Vannucci" Linguistic High School. He subsequently attended the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence.

In Umbria, he then dedicated himself to learning graphic techniques, particularly lithography and drypoint, at the "Grifani Donati" Laboratory Museum of Graphic Arts and Typography in Città di Castello, where he encountered the vibrant artistic scene that would positively impact him.

At the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, he continued his education and trained as an engraver, specializing in lithography. He also attended courses in the Scuola Libera del Nude (Free School of Nude Art). He created and printed several works at the historic "Bulla" printing house in Rome. Following a strong instinctive attraction, he experimented with painting, which deeply captivated him, and continued his graphic work alongside his new approach to painting.

"The same ancient gestures and signs give us today's art. The artistic experience becomes the possibility of design: material, technique, and spirit project themselves forward into infinite possible solutions. The possible is the new layer of contemporary culture. The creative act concentrates speed, precision, visibility, intuition, place and non-place, order and chaos, noise and sound, nature and artifice, birth and death, revolution and peace. The act of painting transcends natural time and the human condition itself. A decade. A seed of new life, of a metaphysical, incalculable time, perceptible only to those curious about the mysteries that populate its creation."

From 2011 to 2013, he exhibited at various cultural centers in the capital. He collaborated with other young artists and Academy colleagues, participating in a collective in Rome, the province, and the city of Pesaro.

In 2012, he was selected by the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome for an installation at the group exhibition "SCART" on May 25, 2011, during the inauguration of the new headquarters of the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome "Campo Boario." Participation in the group exhibition and performance "ARTEMISIA," April 28, 2012, Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and the M Manush Theater Company, "Aula COLLEONI," Rome's historic headquarters on Via di Ripetta. Participation in the group exhibition "SENZA TITOLO," June 12, 2013, at the Antico Castello Savelli, Palombara Sabina (RM).

In 2014, he was a finalist with the work "Morti bianche" in the third edition of the "Painting Safety at Work" competition, organized by INAIL (National Institute for Accidents and Illnesses) of Pesaro and the Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino and Macerata. Work exhibited at the Rocca Malatestiana in Fano (PU), in Fiorenzuola di Focara (PU), at the Castello Borgo Santa Lucia in Candelara (PU), in the Raffaello Hall of the Collegio Raffaello in Urbino (PU), and in the Laurana Hall of the Palazzo Ducale in Pesaro (PU). Participation in the Group Exhibition "SCIARADA" February 24, 2016, former Cinema Preneste, Rome. Participation in the Group Exhibition "TYPE-SHIRT & SAMSARA" August 25, 2016, at the Historic Headquarters of the "GRIFANI DONATI" Printing Works, Città di Castello (PG). Participation in the Group Exhibition "IN LIMINE' IN CHARTIS MEVANIAE" August 21, 2018, Santa Maria Laurentia, Bevagna (PG), curated by Anton Carlo Ponti and Andrea Baffoni.

From 2013 to 2017, several solo exhibitions were held: Solo Exhibition "CONTRIBUTION IN HONOR OF VITTORIO ARRIGONI," April 21, 2013, former Cinema America, Trastevere, Rome. Solo Exhibition "SAMSARA," December 12, 2015-January 30, 2016, Spazio 'Oxigen', Via S. Tommaso D'Aquino, Rome. Solo Exhibition "TRAJETTORIE," May 13-June 17, 2017, extended to September 10, 2017, Area Spazio Arte-Associazione culturale Città del Futuro, Perugia (PG). Critical presentation by Dr. Mimmo Coletti.

Over time, the artist continues his graphic and pictorial production with a particular predilection for mixed media and experimental material elements. He therefore moves on multiple fronts and also alternates and merges figurative research and non-serial, but large-scale pictorial works where his physical and gestural approach to color as an expressive and dynamic material is transparent.