Antonio La Rosa, born in Calasetta in 1976, is an artist, and a free thinker.
He has been an actor for Italian theatres for fifteen years, and today he lives in Rome where he dedicates his time mainly to produce sculptures, paintings, and writing poetic thoughts.
He begins his pictorial path in a completely random way, which he develops following the footsteps of artists between Italy and Germany. At the same time, he pursued the art of sculpture, using wood, stone, marble, polystyrene and iron as main materials, perhaps as an homage to the boilermaker tradition of his family. In fact, the first contact with iron was when as a child he entered the metalworking workshop of his father, where the scraps scattered everywhere, were inviting muses which inspired his imaginary objects that later took concrete life in a sculptural form.
He acquired an important artistic enrichment on meeting the Master sculptor Pinuccio Sciola in his last years of the life.
In 2015, in his solo exhibition, EQUILIBRI INSTABILI, at EXMA Exhibiting and Moving Arts under the
patronage of the City of Cagliari, he begins the project “Sporchiamoci le mani di vita”, which now has many canvases and murals, to which several thousand people participated. In addition, since that year he continues to hold meetings on art with elementary, middle and high school students.
In the same year, 2015, he publishes his first book entitled “Pensieri sparsi tra equilibri instabili”, which contains experiences of art and life.
In 2016, he produces the artwork “Twin Towers Embrace”, exhibited in the artistic promenade of Golfo Aranci in Costa Smeralda. During the same year, he creates a wall artwork of about 40 square meters, commissioned by the Association Me Amigos of the Municipality of San Sperate Paese Museo, sponsored by the Sardinian Foundation, with the approval of Maestro Pinuccio Sciola, to whom it will be dedicated.
In 2017, he presents a solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture entitles “Sentieri sospesi”, in the exhibition hall of Azimut in Rome.
In 2018, he is chosen by the city of Vinci to create a sculpture in occasion of the five hundred years memorial since the death of the great master Leonardo. For this anniversary he creates “Genius”, an outdoor sculpture of 7,5 meters in COR-TEN steel.
In 2019, he receives the artistic prize Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
In 2020, he presents the preview of the installation “The Shark’s Secret” in Porto Rotondo, in Sardinia.
In 2021, he opens his solo exhibition Metropolis.01 at Pavart gallery in Rome and he installs his outdoor sculpture “Trasparenze” at Terraarte park in Blera, he then opens the Roman summer season with the exhibition “Sentieri sospesi 2.1” at Citylab, the former paper mill of the Italian state mint, and participates in the first edition of the International Art Fair “Roma Arte in Nuvola”.
In 2022 he participates at a group outdoor exhibition in Tuscania, “Arte ai confini della Bioteca”, in occasion of the seventh edition of the Biennale of Viterbo, for which he also participates at the group exhibition SANKTA in the Colle del Duomo Museum in Viterbo.
In the same year, he participates to an art residence, “VIVO DOVE STO”, during which he creates a canvas of about 220 cm x 460 cm, which he then cuts into a thousand bookmarks.
In 2023, he publishes his second collection of poetic thoughts with a book of the same title of the art residence, “VIVO DOVE STO”, in which he places the one thousand bookmarks, and participates in the third edition of the International Art Fair “Roma Arte in Nuvola”.
In 2024, he publishes two catalogues: this one entitled “Sentieri sospesi 2.1”, and another entitled “Metropolis.01”.
Over the years, he has exhibited under the patronage of the Municipalities of Cagliari and Rome and his art has been exhibited in the cities of Milan, Piacenza, Catanzaro, Viterbo, Porto Rotondo, Porto Cervo, and Nice.
The art works of Antonio La Rosa have entered several private art collections of considerable fame.
Maria Grazia Bracci
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