Adriano Colangelo

He is a plastic artist, essayist, lecturer, writer, researcher and studies about Leonardo da Vinci’s work.

The plastic artist

Adriano Colangelo is an Italian man who has been living in São Paulo, Brazil, for many years. He develops his artistic expression through a completely new process of pyrography in card paper and big wood panels. He has always improved his technique of his artistic life through permanent and untiring research of processes and materials.
He presented his work in many exhibitions, for example some important individual ones in some cities in Brazil, such as in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Curitiba and some international cities as in Naples, Rome, Toronto, Pinamar in Argentina and collective ones in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Embu das Artes, Verona and Hannover.

The theme of his work

The artist has traveled to small and big cities for years, knowing and studying the wild nature of the Latin American continent. He got enchanted with the population, cultural diversity, and with the geographic magnificence of this place, which derives the pleasure from the most diversified spatial configurations, lighting and coloring. When the cultural artistic activities allowed him to, he dedicated himself to study deeply the different kinds of society. In parallel, the contact with anthropologists and shamans could give him a new way of perception and opened the doors of the Earth Planet of this continent.
This contact has revealed to him amazing beauties, very special people and the most inhospitable and mysterious different sorts of small places which provided the formation of a very rich mosaic which comprehends from a tropical night, in which glowworms mixed with the sidereal geometries, to a typical folk dance or a passion with the unique splendor of Brazilian woman, representing Gaia.
This link justifies and remarks that the figure of the present woman in his works wants to show not only the female sensuality but also the unique fascination of a flowered forest or the flashy light of South Cruise as if they were a unity, an organic body which is in perfect harmony with the totality. For these reasons, the Angels, the Devas, forest waterfall, skies and female nudities make part of the mystery of creation in this magnificent and rich unique place of the Planet.

The essayist

Adriano Colangelo is a researcher of the Western and Eastern History of Civilization, with more than 70 publications in newspaper and magazines such as O Estado de São Paulo, Folha de São Paulo, Jornal da Tarde and Revista Planeta in Brazil. 

He is also an expert in graphic and pictorial works of Leonardo da Vinci.

Published and approved works in Europe:

  • In Holand
    "Leonardic Symbology" published at Bres Magazine from Amsterdam;
  • In Italy
    "Esoteric Symbology of Leonardo" published at Esoteric Magazine of Rome; "Esoteric Symbols in Leonardic Art", "The Mysterious Faces in the Work of Master Leonardo" and "Several Aspect of Vitruvian Man", integrate the collection of Inernational Archive of Fondazione Leonardo da Vinci of Firenze.

The lecturer

He has held many conferences about History of Art and Classical Music in Brazil and abroad, as mentioned before in São Paulo, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Buenos Aires and Rome.

The writer

Colangelos´s published books are:

  1. “Mil Anos de Arte” (One thousand years of Art) - a comparative study between plastic arts and classical music, Cultrix Publishing House – São Paulo - SP
  2. “A Via Seca” (The dry way) - an artistic and philosophical meeting approaching the Western and Eastern cultures, Age Publishing House - Porto Alegre - RS

The researcher

Adriano Colangelo has been dedicated to a deep study of complete work of Leonardo da Vinci and the artist´s monographs are in Fondazione Leonardo da Vinci of Firenze - Italy for research purposes.
He speaks Italian, Portuguese, Spanish fluently and English almost completely.

O Músico

Pratica flauta transversal de Música de Câmera com repertório clássico e folclórico. Estuda esse instrumento há vinte anos e nesse percurso recebeu ensinamentos de renomados mestres brasileiros.
Realiza Concertos Didáticos onde alterna abordagens comparativas entre arte e cultura com recitais de flauta.
Apresentou-se em vários concertos na cidade de São Paulo e no ABC, atuando em dueto e solo de flauta. Fundou em sua residência uma Camerata de pequeno formato, onde congrega amigos e amantes da arte em geral.


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