Arcangelo’s art springs from a profound connection to both landscape and humanity. It emerges from a unique inner geography that transfigures the landscapes of southern Italy and Africa through memory, encounter, and embodiment. For him, Irpinia, Sannio, and the Apennines are not simply places – they are richly imbued with flesh, roots, silence, and living history. His paintings do not merely depict; they awaken, they call. Each work is a declaration of its existence.
Arcangelo’s expression is direct and disarming. He works in mixed media, incorporating earth, wood ash, and pigments. His materials and colors embody time and touch, telling their own stories. Each color speaks with its own voice, resonating with meaning. Nature is an enduring source of inspiration, with flowers emerging as central symbols. More than decorative motifs, they are manifestations of the soul. Each flower embodies a form of quiet resistance, offering itself as a gentle gesture to the world.
Born in 1956, Arcangelo Esposito – known simply as Arcangelo – is an Italian painter and sculptor. He lives and works in Milan and San Nazzaro in Irpinia, and teaches painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and began his international career in Germany and Switzerland exhibiting at leading galleries such as Tanit, Munich and Buchmann, Basel. He participated in the XI and XII Rome Quadriennale (1986, 1996) and has since exhibited widely in Europe and Asia, and his works are represented in numerous public and private collections. His major exhibitions include PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea in Milan, Galleria Civica in Modena and Trento, Musée d’Art Moderne in Toulouse, the MAGA Museum in Gallarate, as well as solo shows in Galerie Mazarine Variations, Paris, Galleria Marco Rossi, Milan, Turin and Verona, Fondazione Il Volume, Roma, In 2019, he presented a large-scale exhibition at MAGA and Milan Malpensa International Airport.