Born in a small town in Sicily called Partinico, Claudio Cangialosi is an emerging artist

from Borgetto, a small town in the province of Palermo where he lived and grew up until

the age of 15. Even as a child he was already very creative and has always been fascinated

by geometric shapes and colors. One of his greatest inspirations has always been Van Gogh

and, reproducing his famous ‘Iris’, at the age of 13 Claudio made his first canvas for his

mother.

During his childhood Claudio dived also into comic drawings on paper.

In 2001 he was accepted at La Scala Ballet School and moved to Milan where he lived for 5

years and where he graduated as a professional dancer. Soon after he was engaged in the

Dresden Semperoper Ballet where he spent his adolescence and where in 2008 made his

first absolute work on canvas after the death of his father.

In Dresden he stayed for 10 years where he went through some emotionally difficult times

with a continuous struggle of acceptance of his own self followed by a severe depression.

During the last two years he had a knee injury and spent almost 2 months in a rehabilitation

clinic in Bad Liebenstein, located in the Thuringia forest, where he created three canvases

called ‘pieces of wood’.

He left Germany in 2016 and as soon as he moved to Antwerp he felt a very strong need to

paint and express what he could not express with dance; So he started using larger canvases

as well. From 2017 he began to exhibit his art for the first time in Antwerp with a personal

exhibition entitled ‘-0.Introduction’.

From there to a few months he made other personal and collective exhibitions in different

galleries, also creating art performances combining dance and painting.

He worked as a freelance choreographer and dancer at the Opera Ballet Flanders in Antwerp

from where he also took inspiration for his art.

He considers himself ‘citizen of the world’ because he really likes to travel, meet new people

and have new experiences.

He continues his artistic research, experimenting with different languages, focusing

attention on color stratification using mainly acrylic but also oil colors,pigments, plasters

and other tools. He has been alternating in recent years the abstract with an interpretative

figurative with a strong Pop Art influence using fluorescent colors especially in the world

lockdown of 2020.

Claudio lives currently in Fiumicino (Rome) and his art is currently part of the Raffaello

Gallery in Palermo. On July 19th 2021, Claudio won the first art prize at the famous

“Biennale di Genova” for the painting “The scream – If Munch was in quarantine”, part of

the quarantine collection.