Giuseppe Antonello Leone

Pulcinella chooses freedom, Sixties, mixed technique, 54x35x32 cm

(Pratola Serra 2017 - Naples 2016) in the 1950s he participated in the neorealism season, engaging in the movement of redemption of Southern Italy in relation to Rocco Scotellaro, Carlo Levi, together with his wife, the Lucanian painter and writer Maria Padula. 

A characteristic element of Antonello Leone's works is the use of recycled materials, combined with the desire to narrate through a partly ironic and partly tragically surreal personal lens. This is well evidenced in the work on display Pulcinella chooses freedom, which tells the tragicomic journey of a Neapolitan Pulcinella landed in New York during the Cold War years, lost in front of the Statue of Liberty made with a light bulb.  

Giuseppe Antonello Leone is also the author of the funerary monument dedicated to Maurizio and Litza Valenzi inside the monumental cemetery of Poggioreale in Naples.