The artist represented mythological scenes both rooted in the Homeric world and related to the local landscape. He produced 16 large ceramic panels with hollow tiles and iron frames designed to be a contemporary re-interpretation of the ancient Praiano shrines. Lubelli wanted to connect the sacred and the profane and the classical and the contemporary in a ribute to local culture and mythology.
The NaturArte trail that tells the story of Praiano’s traditions through a Homeric lens
From piazza Antico Seggio to piazza San Luca and via Duomo.
Before setting off on the trail, take a moment to connect with the spirit of this NaturArte path. Directly from Fausto Lubelli’s voice
The Art of Fausto Lubelli
Fausto Lubelli was born in Salerno in 1949. After being educated at the Art Institute, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. A professor of Artistic Education, he has a workshop in Salerno.
He has taken part in group exhibitions since 1969, and since 1975 he has had solo exhibitions: “La stazione” (The Station) and “Il cinema dipinto” (Painted Cinema)
He has exhibited at prestigious galleries, and he has been invited to events on the contemporary research, and his works are held in institutions and important corporate and private collections. Before his investigation into Industrial Archaeology (also reported by “Arte”, Milan, 2002) and contemporary architecture (Chapel of Villa Rufolo, Ravello (SA), 2003), he was interested in Il cinema dipinto, the interpretation of the landscape in formal plasticism and the theme of theatre and the mask; in ceramics, he is attentive to the results of expressionist experimentation, in particular that of the Cobra Group, and is interested in the recovery of archaic forms also in an anthropological-cultural dimension, while attention to scenography characterises the polychrome ceramic sculptures that compose phantasmagorical woods.
Connected to NaturArte Paths
Praiano NaturArte. Path 6: Ferdinando Vassallo