Amelio Roccamonte Biography
Giorgio Amelio Roccamonte was born in Buenos Aires in 1927. He attended the studio of the sculptor Maria Cristina Molina Salas in Argentina, where in 1943 he met Lucio Fontana, subsequently becoming his student through the awarding of a scholarship at the Altamira Academy. In 1946, the nineteen-year-old sculptor signed his master's Manifesto Blanco together with other artists such as Bernardo Arias, Horacia Cazeneuve, Marcos Fridman, Pablo Arias, Rodolfo Burgos, E. Benito, César Bernal, Luis Coll, A. Hansen and gave life to the Space Movement. Once he arrived in Italy, he attended the Brera Academy from 1948 to 1950, where he was a student of Marino Marini, holder of the sculpture chair. In 1951, in Rome, he held his first solo exhibition in the Galleria dello Zodiaco. He was a teacher at the Primo Liceo Artistico in via Ripetta in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century. Roccamonte is mainly known for his robot sculptures and later devoted himself to letter-shaped sculptures. The "sculpture kiosk", a reinforced concrete work he created, contributes to furnishing the spaces of Parco Sempione in Milan together with seven other architectural works and public art installations all supplied by the Milan Triennale.
