Armando Gioia

Born in 1960 in L’Aquila, where he lives and works. He participated in Fabio Mauri's "Gran serata futurista 1909-1930" in June 1986 (Teatro Goldoni, Venice); again with Fabio Mauri, in March 1987, at the Marconi studio in Milan, he participated in the exhibition "L’immagine ARTE SCIENZA TEORIA" (Image ART SCIENCE THEORY) with the performance, based on a text by Mauri himself, "Dio e la scena" L'esperienza dell'essere (God and the Scene: The Experience of Being).

Solo exhibitions:

1986. Quarto di S. Giusta Multimedia Center, L’Aquila (Text by R0lando Alfonso). Luigi Di Sarro Gallery, Rome (Two-person exhibition with Oliviero Rainaldi), text by Barbara Tosi. 2023. RI-VELATO, F’ART Visual Arts Center, L’Aquila (Two-person exhibition with Romanoleli), curated by Mariano Cipollini. 2024. The Memory of the Sign, curated by Mariano Cipollini, Museum of the People of Abruzzo, Pescara. "The Shadow and Its Reverse," curated by Giulia Del Papa, TRAleVOLTE Association, Rome. Graphiae, volume no. 22 of the artist's book series, Il Bulino Editions by Sergio Pandolfini. Rome, July 2024.

Group Exhibitions:

1984. "G. Melarangelo" Center, Teramo. 1985. "Expo Arte" Bari, Third National Exhibition. 1986. XXXVIII Michetti Prize: "The Sea," curated by Enrico Crispolti, Francavilla al Mare (CH). ARTETRA, Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, University of L'Aquila, Faculty of Education. ARTETRA (Graphics) Quarto di S. Giusta Multimedia Center, L'Aquila, Text by Antonio Gasbarrini. 1987. “EXPO Arte” Bari, Fifth National Exhibition. Current Alternatives/Abruzzo 87, edited by Enrico Crispolti, L’Aquila, Forte Spagnolo – Catalog Mazzotta (Milan). 1988 Abruzzo Laboratory “RIPE 88,” edited by Enrico Crispolti, Ripe S. Ginesio (Macerata). 1989 Avezzano City Award, XXV Edition 1989-90, “Presences between Assumptions and Tendencies in Current Events,” exhibition and catalogue edited by Mariano Apa. 1990 Conceptuality of Abstraction, Castello Piccolomini, Celano (AQ), exhibition and catalogue edited by Mariano Apa. Fourth Biennial of Sacred Art, Pescara. Text by Mariano Apa (Catalogue Umberto Sala Editore). 1992 XLII Art Exhibition, Sassoferrato – Palazzo Oliva, July/August 1992, text by Leo Strozzieri. XI Art Exhibition “City of Penne.” Biennial 92/93, curated by Lucia Spadano. 1999. “Artists&vent! In L’Aquila 1944 – 1999” Modern and Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Antonio Gasbarrini, L’Aquila, Cinquecentesco Castle. “Art Itineraries-‘900: Artists and Art in Abruzzo”, Casoli Castle, Casoli (CH), Michetti Foundation, Francavilla (CH), curated by A. Gasbarrini. 2000. Annual Art Exhibition 2000 “The Scandal of the Spirit”, Contemporary Art for Celestine V, curated by Enrico Sconci, L’Aquila, Cinquecentesco Castle. 2001. Tivoli and the Aniene “Reflections of Memory” curated by Roberta Ridolfi and Enrico Sconci. 2023. Art and Spirituality curated by Giulia Del Papa and the TRAleVOLTE Association, Monastery of S. Basilio, L’Aquila, exhibition within the project Seminiamo ARTE, Mubaq (AQ). 2024. Art-Nature curated by Giulia Del Papa in collaboration with TRAleVOLTE, Collemaggio Botanical Garden, L'Aquila, exhibition part of the Seminiamo ARTE project, Mubaq (AQ).

After the 2009 earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila, he interrupted his exhibitions, but not his work and research, which culminated in his latest exhibitions.

Rolando Alfonso, Barbara Tosi, Enrico Crispolti, Mariano Apa, Leo Strozzieri, Lucia Spadano, Antonio Zimarino, Antonio Gasbarrini, Mariano Cipollini, and Giulia Del Papa have written about him.

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