Raffaele Fiore was born in Naples on August 13, 1961. He began to paint at a very young age, following an inclination that emerged among the school desks and soon turned into passion. The active entry into the world of art and painting was in Turin in the early 1980s at a historic moment in which it seemed that an exasperated search for originality still had to prevail, resulting in arid extravagance. Even at that juncture, without any ideological vanity, Fiore defended his pressing desire to represent reality, updating the teaching of the great masters of the past, while over the years he has enhanced the expressive potential of a naturally versatile and refined pictorial manual skill careful and constant study of color, techniques, composition and light. An uninterrupted experimental tension also brings him closer to the practice of the sketch and the portrait, apparently simple worlds, but in reality an exercise of extreme technical difficulty and expressive challenge for any painter who intends to define himself as such.
In 1993 he moved to Tuscany, where he still works and lives. He refines and enriches his professional experience by collaborating for a few years in the reproduction of the Italian and European classics of the 19th century with some of the most renowned artisan workshops in the artistic heart of old Florence, but a now acquired expressive maturity brings him back to his personal "realist research". undertaken in his youthful years. In the peculiar setting and in the dry and vibrant brush stroke of theVenetian reflections"(Venice is the environment of choice for the paintings of the last few years) all the skill and expressive liveliness of his art is tangible, so as to allow him a truthful representation and at the same time a full, conscious, independent reading. Without affecting the aesthetic value of the environments described, carefully researched and discovered, Fiore offers a personal vision, full of subjective interpretative meanings. His painting has enjoyed considerable acclaim since its inception and his works are found in numerous private collections. Sold both in Italy and abroad, it is present every year at the most authoritative national and international art fairs.
An undoubted natural talent and a property of technical means that came to be refined in the intense pictorial practice, never separated from an uncompromising inner research, constitute the strongest values of the continuous descent and evolution of this painter
