I am a painter born in the ‘50s, with a deep-rooted passion for art in every possible expression.

I am a painter born in the ‘50s, with a deep-rooted passion for art in every possible expression…

I’ve made of painting my life and my profession.

Inspired by the major work of Salvador Dali, my point of reference, I’ve explored the entire sphere of Surrealism and the dimension of the fantastic, extending progressively my horizons thanks to a gradual development and to the study of other Remarkable Masters, performing reproductions.

This is, in fact, one of my main activities, that i face with great care and dedication, making copies, with the greatest observance of techniques, colours and of the minimum shade of every original painting.

This work is the fundamental tool that consents me to get closer to the comunicative spirit of the actual creator of the work, contacting it through the sensations that the painting itself arises in me.

The research of various techniques and materials, to which I dedicate particular attention, starting from personally prepared supports, has consented me to mature to the actual style, which is continuously updated with curiosity and desire of innovation.

Material backup, with strong images, achieved with the spatula, where the violence of colour dominates the whole underlining aspects, atmospheres and expressions which are basics of the topic.

The path I have followed has made it possible for my production to go from painting, to portraits and to author’s copies.

Biographical notes

Giacomo Sonaglia was born in Rome on 19 June 1950. It is difficult to define the moment in his life that marks his encounter with art, and when questioned he replies: “I have been doing it for as long as I can remember”. After compulsory education, driven by economic difficulties typical of the period, he began working at a very young age in the artistic workshop of the painter and advertiser Fernando Ribaudo. Here, starting with the most humble tasks, he faces a rigid apprenticeship. Over time he collaborated in the creation of sketches for the cinema, perfecting various artistic techniques, also thanks to a training course achieved in the same period. Fourteen years of workshop work coincide with Sonaglia’s first artistic period, inspired by Dalì’s Surrealism and De Chirico’s Metaphysics. He will subsequently work at an artisanal advertising sign making company, without ever forgetting his true passion. We can say that the life of this painter was accompanied by a dream: that of being able to live only from art. It is precisely this desire that will motivate him to open the “Arte e Pubblicità” company together with his wife Anna Rita in 1984. Life as a painter seems to be a very ambitious goal for the company, which for its first decade mainly lives of advertising graphics and signage. But over the years Sonaglia’s artistic dedication repays him. In fact, at the beginning of 2000 the company worked mainly on artistic commissions: from portraits to frescoes, from author’s copies to its own works. In this period the painter felt the need for novelty, which subsequently materialized in a particularly expressive and personal style. Material supports, strong images, vivid colors are evident peculiarities in the most recent paintings of this dedicated artist. To this day he works assiduously, selling and exhibiting internationally, and it can certainly be said that he has fulfilled the dream of a lifetime, of a life for art.