Artist: Pino Procopio. Medium: Original Serigraph. Title: BAR SOTTO IL MARE cartoncino. Size: 40x40cm. Hand Signed and Numbered. Giampaolo Talani was born in 1955 in Florence, Italy. After much artistic training, including schooling at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Talani in 1979 received his first major artistic award at the age of 24 in Mantova. Talani's style is very much rooted in the antique tradition of the master artist. As a talented draughtsman and painter, Talani utilizes his knowledge of the artistic mediums: drawing, oil painting and fresco to create his signature atmospheric style. Figurative subject matter combines with both brilliantly intense and contemplative color, thus evoking richly developed dreamlike spaces. The gaze found in Talani's subjects only adds to this dream induced experience. Pensive and at times unnervingly inquisitive one is uncertain if Talani's figures are looking at or beyond the viewer or both. The subtle intensity of this gaze adds to the overall magnetic pull of Talani's painting. The art attracts and entices the viewer to participate in these creatively imagined spaces. Talani's paintings are influenced by his life by the sea. Much like the ocean waves, he mesmerizes a very captive audience. Giampaolo Talani is well noted by the critics, and serious collectors of fine art throughout the world.: Pino Procopio was born in 1954 in Guardavalle, Calabria. He enjoyed modelling clay since nursery school. In middle school he made erotic drawings, for which he was reproached many times. He attended the art school and then enrolled at the faculty of Architecture in Rome, never neglecting his artistic activity. In the 1970s, during his walks through Rome, he started to attend some of the galleries. His first exhibition opened in Rome at the La Bitta art centre in 1980. After that, he had a flourishing artistic career, rich in productions and exhibitions in the major Italian towns. Procopios artworks express irony, sarcasm and even cynicism. His artistic expression is provocative, without preconceptions, revelation of an intellectual delicacy. Now Procopio is recognised among the greatest Italian and international masters of the 20th century..

Great Condition