Vito Bongiorno

Vito Bongiorno is an Italian artist known for making art out of charcoal.

Biography

During his artistic career, Costanzo Costantini labelled Bongiorno as the Italian Yves Klein, referring to his anthropometry, in line with the French painter. The artist has recently denounced the fragility of his country and to express his denunciation he uses coal to symbolise disease, rift, bitterness and pollution.

One of his most recent artistic creations is "Terra Mater" at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, in May 2012. He exhibited "Superfetazioni" at the Capitoline Museums in the Centrale Montemartini in Rome. His work "Fragile" was shown at the Maam Museum in Rome. In 2015 he intervened with an installation at the Cà Pesaro Museum in Venice on the occasion of the Venice Biennale.

He is present in the archive of the artists of Rome Quadriennale. Some of his works of art are present in the permanent collection of the Mutuo Soccorso Museum, in the Maam Museum in Rome, and at the MACA in Alcamo. In 2019 he created the work "Our Planet", exhibited at the Macro Museum of Rome; on 12 October he also organized the anthological exhibition entitled Nostos at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alcamo (MACA) in Alcamo.

Bongiorno lives and works between Fregene and Rome.