Lucio Amelio (13 September 1931 – 2 July 1994) was an Italian art dealer, curator, and actor. For decades he contributed to make Naples an international art centre encouraging the dialogue between European and American contemporary arts.[1]
Biography
editLucio Amelio was born on 13 September 1931 in Via dei Tribunali in Naples.[2][3] He had four sisters – Marisa, Giuliana, Lina and Anna.[citation needed] Due to the Second World War, his family moved several times and settled in 1944 for twelve years in Resina.[citation needed]
After graduating in 1949 from Liceo scientifico, Amelio enrolled in architecture studies at the University of Naples.[citation needed] Amelio quickly established himself as a leading figure in the international contemporary art market from the mid-sixties to the mid-nineties.[citation needed] In 1965 he opened the Modern Art Agency,[4] a gallery in Parco Margherita dedicated to experimental art. In 1969 he opened the Galleria Lucio Amelio in Naples’ Piazza dei Martiri, which hosted exhibitions of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Mario Merz, Jannis Kounellis, Keith Haring, Cy Twombly, Dieter Hacker.[5][6]
In 1980 Amelio introduced Joseph Beuys to Andy Warhol, and later that year he organized the exhibition of portraits "by Beuys, Warhol".[7][8]
In 1988, Amelio co-founded an art gallery, Galerie Pièce Unique, in Paris in the middle of Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood.[10][11][12]
Death
editAmelio had been HIV positive since 1987.[13] He died in his hometown of Naples as a result of AIDS on 2 July 1994, aged 62.[14][13]
Tomb on Capri
editLucio Amelio's grave is located on the Cimitero Acattolico, the non-Catholic cemetery, on the island of Capri.[15][16] Many international writers and artists are buried there, such as the writer Norman Douglas and the French Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen – whose house on Capri, the Villa Lysis, Amelio wanted to restore in the last few years of his life had. Amelio's gravestone, a large rectangular plate made of black Belgian marble was designed Amelio himself with the help of the art critic Michele Bonuomoa year before his death. In the middle of the marble slab, under the name of "Lucio Amelio", a circle is engraved, the interior of which, at the highest level of the sun, causes an intense light through a mirror effect; below is the inscription L'isola del Sonno (Isle of Sleep), which cites the title of a small object created by Joseph Beuys in Capri in the summer of 1974.
Acting
editAmelio was also an actor and worked with director Lina Wertmuller in four films.
| Date | Name | Type | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze) | film | Lina Wertmüller | [17] |
| 1978 | Blood Feud (Fatto di sangue fra due uomini per causa di una vedova, si sospettano moventi politici) | film | Lina Wertmüller | |
| 1979 | A Night Full of Rain (La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia) | film | Lina Wertmüller | |
| 1991 | Saturday, Sunday and Monday (Sabato, domenica e lunedì) | film, made for television | Lina Wertmüller | [18] |
| 1992 | Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (Morte di un matematico napoletano) | film | Mario Martone |
References
edit- ^ "Art dealer Lucio Amelio's adventure". Italy24. 10 January 2015. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ Calise, Roberto (2015). "Lucio Amelio e l'oro artistico di Napoli in mostra al Madre" [Lucio Amelio and the Artistic Gold of Naples on display at the Madre]. Qualcosa di Napoli (QdN). Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ Notte, Riccardo (1991). "Conversazione Fra Lucio Amelio e Riccardo Notte" [Conversation between Lucio Amelio and Riccardo Notte]. Artleo.it. Med Arts Review. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
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- ^ "Naples remembers Lucio Amelio". Le Sirenuse Positano (Sirenuse Journal). Archived from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ Achille Bonito Oliva, Eduardo Cicelyn – "Lucio Amelio" – Annali delle Arti, Arte Moderna – Skira Editore 2004
- ^ "Napoli presente: posizioni e prospettive dell'arte contemporanea", di Lóránd Hegyi – Electa, Napoli 2005
- ^ "Warhol, Beuys: omaggio a Lucio Amelio" – a cura di Michele Bonuomo, Mazzotta 2007
- ^ "Articolo pubblicato sul sito Artelabonline.com". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ "Lucio Amelio". e-flux.com. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ Claisse, Chris. "Donald Sultan à la galerie Pièce Unique". le banc moussu (in French). Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ^ Ronchi, Giulia (3 September 2020). "Altro che crisi: Massimo De Carlo apre nuova galleria a Parigi". Artribune (in Italian). Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ^ Valade, Bernard (2006). Cultures Européennes et Identités Parisiennes (in French). Harmattan. p. 160. ISBN 978-2-296-00713-0.
- ^ a b "Ein Leben unter dem Vulkan" [Interview: Life Under the Volcano]. FOCUS Online, No. 7 (1994) (in German). 14 February 1994. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ Rivkin, Joshua (2018). Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly. Melville House. p. 262. ISBN 9781612197180.
- ^ "The Art of Mourning". ItalyTraveller.com. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
- ^ "Un gioiello nascosto" [A hidden jewel]. Capri Review (in Italian). Retrieved 6 March 2020.
- ^ "Gli italiani di Hollywood: il cinema italiano agli Academy Awards", di Silvia Bizio – Gremese editore 2002
- ^ Schede su MyMovies e Comingsoon [1] [2]