Biography

Elio Gervasi born in Messina, lives and works in Rome since 1967. He attended the State Institute of Arts in Rome. Artists such as Fabrizio Mochetti, Eliseo Mattiacci, Mario Lucerna were his teachers.
He began to paint very young: in 1965 he exhibited his first very coloured paintings, due to his particular love for the sicilian popular art expecially hand-carts and religious paintings. He still painting, exhibiting his masterpieces all over the world.
In Rome he met important artists: Renato Guttuso ,Bruno Caruso,Antonio Corpora, Giuseppe Cesetti. He received a lot of favourable criticisms by different journalists: Vittore Querel, Toni Bonavita, John Hart, Romana Bagni, Franz Riccobono, Maria Teresa Prestigiacomo.