Francesco Cuomo at Galleria del Palazzo Coveri, Florence, Italy
Raffaella Marano
The italian summer season has offered colors and liveliness in the works of the artist Francesco Cuomo. The young painter and poet was born in Eboli, a town in the heart of south Italy in the 1973. Cuomo has been painting since 1996; he lives and works in Florence. The italian artist takes a place of honor at the important gallery called Galleria del Palazzo Coveri in Florence,directed by Massimo Coveri Martini and his wife Chiara Giustini–both very famous in the field of the fashion "made in Italy."
Cuomo discovered himself as painter about 10 years ago, when he traied to put his emotions on a simple white slip of paper. "Color by color" came out his innate impulses. As Cuomo explains: "I began to paint because I wanted to transmit emotions to the people I love, to give happiness. I feel good when I’m able to get the people to smile, my joy is born from the happiness that I can transmit to others."
Cuomo’s art gives us a strong, clear message. "Color means happiness, joy, emotion. Color is for me the future." The artist’s technique is only at its beginning, but he uses colors as the main way to reach the heart, the place where his artistic vocation is born.
As an emerging artist, he is opening a good dialogue among the Italian art community. Moreover, the artist is ready to make the efforts to get himself known throughout Europe and the United States.
