Gianluca Cavallo was born in 1976. Always inclined towards freehand drawing, after a long apprenticeship as a decorator for villas and private rooms, in 2002 he obtained the diploma of painter decorator in Florence at the Institute of Art and Restoration “Palazzo Spinelli”. . In 2006 he completed the construction work on the entire decorative system for the Church of the Madonna del Rosario in Silla di Sassano (SA) with 33 oil canvases of considerable size inspired by the canonical and apocryphal gospels, following the suggestion of “the good news”. by Fabrizio De André; he is also the author of the internal architectural design. In 2008 his first solo show in Salerno at Palazzo Sant’Agostino (headquarters of the provincial administration) presented by the artist Ugo Marano. In 2011 he moved to Rome after an anthology “All’anagrafe Giovanni” in his country of origin: Sala Consilina. In that year he was a finalist for the Celeste Prize with the work “l’arancio” and with the work “sub acavallo”, a paradoxical and ironic self-portrait, he inaugurated an exhibition in Rome and the fruitful collaboration with the “Creative Room Art Gallery “ which will lead him to exhibit at the 55th Venice Art Biennale in 2013 at the National Pavilion of the Republic of Bangladesh. In 2014 the La Verde-La Malfa Foundation of Catania dedicated a three-month exhibition to him, “Ishmael’s carousel”. In 2015 he participated in the 1st Rome Art Biennale and was awarded the Rock’n Art Award. In addition to exhibiting his works at fairs, national and international galleries, he began collaborating with the “Spazio Mater Loft Gallery” in Rome . In 2017 he had his first experience as a curator with the project “Medusa/Riflessioni” at Palazzo Marone in Monte San Giacomo (SA). In 2019 for Road Television in Rome he created the scenography for a television program on TV 2000. In recent years the artist has developed a contemporary art style by reinterpreting the figurative in black and white. His paintings are the descriptive testimony of his investigation. It finds its starting point on a titanium white background: infinite figures emerge from the brush soaked in black oil, created freehand, with the right attention and due commitment to each individual character. From gesture to form. He currently lives between Vallo di Diano and Colombia in Bogotà; carrying forward his artistic experimentation, open to the use of new techniques and different supports, such as ceramics.