CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF ASCOLI PICENO

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THE PRESIDENT

A MULTIFORM ARTIST

This office is honoured to present to the Berlin public, which

has always been one of the most sensitive towards

everything including expression and demonstration of the

varied art languages,
an artist who, with his multiform personality, has all the requi-
sites necessary to represent the distinctive nature of the peo-

ple of Ascoli Piceno and the Marche region. This part of Italy

is the birthplace of many artists including Raffaello, Barocci,

Cagli, Licini, Scipione, and Fazzini, of architects like

Bramante, of poets like Leopardi and Cecco d'Ascoli, and of

musicians like Rossini and Spontini. Since the culture of this

part of Italy is so deeply rooted dating back to ancient times,

the people here have the rare virtue to consider man's labour

activities inseparable from their mental and spiritual ideals

and from their veneration of tradition.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, ceramist, medal-maker, VITTO-

RIO AMADIO, is that type of artistic operator who considers

figurative art forms as a meeting point for a more open and

diffused sociality. This is because he believes that art should
not only be destined to the Ëlite, but rather to the entire com-

munity without any distinctions regarding class levels or

caste. Art should be considered not as an exclusive bearer of

values which concern the intellectual conception of making
art, but rather as an expression of creativity, including inventi-

veness and work, which is able to lead the noble skill of the
craftsman - as we have been taught by the positive experien-

ce of the Bauhaus- to a level of consciousness in which the

instinct of the creative individual seizes balance from the

forms and expressiveness from the images.

This meeting point in VITTORIO AMADIO's paintings and

sculptures is an occasion, frequently with results which testify

not only the validity of the Picenian artist's proposals, but also

his involvement in the research of a personal communicative

language.

I am sure the Berlin public will be able to appreciate him.

Dr. Nazario Sauro Ramadori