Lillo Bartoloni Biography
Lillo Bartoloni, born in Rome in 1948, worked as a painter, sculptor and curator. During his youth, he attended courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, led by the art historian and poet Cesare Vivaldi, who subsequently included him in the art of madmen (ART BRUT) and then in neo-expressionism movement, of which he became one of the most original representatives. In 1968, he was awarded as one of the best young painters at the Rome and Lazio Biennale. In the 1970s, he exhibited at the Piccola Galleria in Rio de Janeiro and at the Dante House in São Paulo, achieving great success for his works influenced by Yiddish culture. Bartoloni has always studied Central European writers such as J. Roth, F. Kafka and IB Singer, whose influence permeates his multifaceted works linked to Judaism and its world. He created sets inspired by Yiddish culture, such as "The Story of Purim" and "The Last Demon of Thishevitz", based on a novel by IB Singer. Furthermore, he created a course on Painting of Memory which he also held at the Pitigliani Italian Jewish Center in Rome. Since 2018, he has been artistic director of the Visual Arts Space of the Marco Besso Foundation in Rome and mainly dedicates himself to curating exhibitions of emerging artists. His works are present in the collections of the Macro of Rome, in the museums of the Municipality of Gibellina and of the Municipality of Rome.
