Tomaino Giuliano

Giuliano Tomaino was born in La Spezia in 1945, he lives and works in Sarzana; he started his career at the end of the sixties, in the direction of Arte Povera.
The 1970s are marked by bedspreads used as a support to represent nature, decay and the action of time. From the mid-1970s his research turned to sign painting, characterised by lines crossing each other in different scales of black and red, colours that were to become a constant in his work, with signs that tended to repeat themselves; the collages made with frayed fabric were contemporary.
His stay in New York marked an important stage in Giuliano’s work, as he was in close contact with Mario Soldati. Tellaro, where the artist lived, and the Ligurian landscape, enter his paintings in the form of signs that recall the mussel-farming poles in the gulf, the jellyfish) and the clouds. E’ il mare dileguato nel cielo, ’86), the port . In ’90 the theme of the cymbal appears (suggested by the swallows that enter the Sarzana studio, where Tomaino still works.