Luciano Sozio alias Manovella was born in Isernia in 1979. After studying at the State Institute of Art in Rome he enrolled at the Academy of Belle Arti of Brera in Milan. In 2001 he attended courses in Rome at the European Institute of Design (IED) where he graduated in 2004 with Illustration and Animation Media. His pictorial quality emerged from the start and even in his early works there was clearly a certain kind of sensitivity and originality in creating a personal artistic language, which dominating two seemingly distant dimensions, those of reality and dream. With these words Manovella sums up his thoughts: "My natural size prolific his absence pending. In an area formed by the distance between dream and reality. This is my purgatory. This is my room. There I am undressed for all to see. There things really happen. There and then that which is planted, ripens. A large intestine metabolising my life. My painting almost a dream, my painting almost real". In March 2008 he opened his first solo exhibition titled "Thoughts of fresh water," at the Art Space Gallery in Milan, with an excellent feedback that is of public and criticism. In February 2009 he holds the staff "under the skirt of the Gypsy", curated by Lorenzo Canova, at the 6th Sense and Art Gallery in Rome. In October of 2009 Manovella is winner of XII Edition of the Prize Morlotti - Imbersago Young Artists category.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 SOLO SHOW consequent to the Morlotti prize in MORLOTTI FOUNDATION (Milan)
2010 SOLO SHOW 'Lo spazio indovinato', curated by Lorenzo Canova, 'Spazio Arte' Gallery, Corso di Porta Nuova, 36 (Milan)
2009 " SOTTO LA GONNA DELLA ZINGARA curated by Lorenzo Canova, 6° Senso Art Gallery, Rome.
2009 " SPIRITO LIBERO IN UN LETTO A CASTELLO ",curated by Giorgio Seveso, Gallery Spazio Arte, Milan.
2008 " PENSIERI D'ACQUA DOLCE curated by Giorgio Seveso,Gallery Spazio Arte, Milan.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 BIENNALE DI BENEVENTO - ARCOS Contemporary Art Museum, BENEVENTO
2009 " SGUARDI SULLA PITTURA " 6° Senso Art Gallery Rome.
2009 " FRESH PAINT " curated by Lorenzo Canova, ARATRO, archivio per le arti elettroniche, laboratorio per l'arte contemporanea. Universita degli studi del Molise.
2009 " VISIONI " , curated by Giorgio Seveso, Gallery Spazio Arte, Milan.
PRIZES
2010 BIENNALE DI BENEVENTO - PREMIO MARIO RAZZANO - BENEVENTO, Finalist Artist
2009 PREMIO MORLOTTI - IMBERSAGO, Award winner Morlotti Prize, Museo della Permanente , Milan.