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 He's called the “rover
painter “ because his works are known not only in the European
towns but also in the overseas countries; this artistic nomadism of
his started in 1945 just here in Milan where he got from the native
S. Vito dei Normanni in Puglia, rendering this way his great
strength and expressiveness pictorial work, putting in the light his
endowments of great colourist and drawer.
An undeniable fame conquered in thousands expositions of regional and
national extent at Milan, Rome, Naples, Florence, Bari, Genoa; the
presence in international expositions at São Paolo, Buenos Aires,
New Orleans, New York; personal exhibitions at Stockholm, Cologne,
Düsseldorf and New Orleans, in the American Louisiana.
Just here, the Ruggiero's fame got distinguished acknowledgements, as
all started winning a competition, and so portraying the whole personnel
and the most important physicians of the Charity Hospital of Louisiana.
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fame as wind if he was committed to portrait the ex governor H.P.
Long, father of Russel Long, the younger senator by then of the United
states and other eminent American personages.
In the portraits there's not only the sketching of traits, the classic
pose of the portraiture but a whole of annotations, values, feelings
making the painter feeling that temper, that soul, and that have featured
always his works.
Friend of other artists and people of letters, as the great writer of
“Rupe”, Leonida Repaci that invited him with a personal
exposition at the 36o Literary award of Viareggio.
Dead few years ago our Ruggiero, painter of clear fame, has left several
works, in oils and on paper, where he shows his considerable skill,
the wideness of his interests, his themes, his strong personality
and his feelings, highlighted by strong colours, bright tonalisms
and the richness of the matter.
Landscapes vary from the Pugliese woods of olives, broken by white houses,
to carnivals and American views, from the Milanese winters to the
New Orleans folk places, from the New York skyscrapers to the wheat
and poppies fields of the province he came from. In landscapes the
sign, nimble and springing, comes before the colour as in the Venetian
corners happily caught.
In figures there's the entire feminine world, from the girls combing
their hairs to the girls reading or loving, the geishas, the dancers
caught behind the stage during representations, motherhood, the women
of the South with a handkerchief covering their faces; the faces of
the old artisans, Gypsy caravans, Pulchinellos; all spreads a send-up
taste, a French style impression, a crude expression, explosive, vibrant,
interpreted.
Of no less strength and intensity are his sacred art paintings as some
processions and “Madonnas” as the one in possession today
of the Monsignor Antonio Bello Foundation at the Contemporaneous Art
International Marian Museum of Alessano, and that attracts attention
among thousands for the blue tones.
Here it is an artist to rediscover, about whom it will be hold in spring
a beautiful anthological exhibition at the Lazzaro Gallery of Milan
and now it is going to press a precious monograph with a text of mine
outlining the whole pictorial development, from the beginning to maturity.
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Mensile di scienza medica e
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