Giuseppe Maraniello was born in Naples in 1945
He completed his studies in Naples, at the Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1971 he settled in Milan and he practiced the art of photography. However, from the end of the 1970s, he devoted himself to painting and the traditional languages of art. In this period, the first public exhibitions also began. He collaborated with several art galleries exhibiting in numerous locations throughout Italy, and participated in the group of the "nuovi nuovi" (the "newest new") with whom he exhibited until 1996.
In addition to exhibiting in various Italian and foreign galleries, in 1989 he became professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. After Lecce and Bologna, in 1991 he was transferred to the Brera Academy in Milan, where he taught until 2003.
The language of his works is the result of an intervention of hybridization between pictorial sign and sculptural elaboration, in which the artist gives ample space to his imagination of an esoteric and imaginative universe, inhabited by archaic and mythical subjects such as archers, little devils, tightrope walkers.
In 1990 he participated in the XLIV Venice Biennale with a room dedicated to his work. Many exhibitions follow in decades in Barcelona, Madrid, Caracas, Bogotà, Darmstadt, Hamburg, and countless shows are held in Italy in public institutions and museums such as the Modern Art Gallery in Bologna, the MART in Rovereto, Trento, the Boboli Garden in Florence, the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan, the MADRE Museum in Naples, and in outstanding galleries such as Galleria Giò Marconi and Galleria Fumagalli in Milan, and Galleria Galleria Flora Bigai in Venice and Pietrasanta. In 2008, he won the “Guglielmo Marconi 2008” Award for painting, sculpture and electronic art, promoted by the University of Bologna, Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi. His monumental works are permanently placed in prominent public spaces in Italy and abroad.
His activity continues with participation in international public and private exhibitions.
