ZAPPALA’ CIRO

 

He was born in Switzerland. After the studies of art in Sicily, he engages in a personal research, inspired by the Impressionism and by Gustave Dorè. The graphic similarity with the renown French painter and engraver, have been lately highlighted by the art critic Santino Spartà. He has been selected for the “Biennale d’arte internazionale” in Rome and his works of art were shown in the “Bramante” rooms together with the greatest painters of the 20th Century. In 2010 he won the author prize (Ciac) in Rome, at the “Campidoglio”. One of his works is in the permanent collection of the “Galleria Agostiniana”, in Rome. Art history students, for their final dissertation, have studied his art.