Michele Roccotelli

Michele Roccotelli, born in Minervino Murge, began exhibiting in 1968 and since then has held numerous solo exhibitions. Present in important national exhibitions and contemporary art fairs, always hosted by prestigious Italian galleries, where he has exhibited permanently for about thirty years as in the exhibition spaces of the Ghelfi in Verona. Present in Naples, in the Castel dell'Ovo, with the personal exhibition "mediTERRANEO", an exhibition then transferred to Brussels at the headquarters of the European Parliament. He returns to Naples exhibiting his most important works on the theme "The Chamber of Wonders" which he proposed in exhibition spaces in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Meanwhile, he is continually summoned for solo exhibitions and retrospectives as a significant representative of local painting and dedicates himself to ceramics, taking inspiration from Apulian forms and techniques for ever new inventions. He participates in art biennials and has been awarded important prizes several times. The catalogs published by renowned cultural institutes are numerous and prestigious, with contributions by renowned critics preserved in the Thomas J. Waston Library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The latest solo shows include large-format paintings, ceramics, sculptures, recycling of waste objects but relived with his particular creative stamp, made of colors and materials. Tireless art teacher for talented students at the Accademia Margherita in Bari, he prepares exhibitions with them in art galleries and public and private exhibition spaces.