GLAZED TERRACOTTA PANEL BY STELLARIO BACCELLIERI – CM. 80X120 – 2012
TITLE: BAR TESTA ALBISOLA (THE TESTA CAFETERIA IN ALBISOLA)
Stellario Baccellieri has been an artist all of his life. A self-taught painter, he follows the tradition of the Neapolitan figurative artists from the 1800’s and the early 1900′s Lumbard masters. In his youth he painted native Calabria, its landscapes and people, then, in 1976, he moved to Rome where he met de Chirico at Caffé Greco in Via Condotti, thus giving his style a new twist. Today, Baccellieri – who had his works exhibited all over Italy and abroad, and whose solo shows were organized and presented by such art critics as Milena Milani (Spazio Cultura, Cortina d’Ampezzo) - is universally acknowledged as the ‘coffee-house master’: from Caffé Greco in Rome to the Del Posta Bar in Cortina, from Florian’s in Venice to Padua’s Pedrocchi to mention but a few. The characters he portrays, his so-called ‘coffee-house people’, are usually fancy-dressed masks: his women are aristocrats from the smart-set, refined intellectuals or art lovers. He presently lives in Reggio Calabria, Rome and Venice.