L'ultimo nodo (Le dernier noeud; The last knot) (2016) Printmaking by Al Torella

Al Torella (Alberto Torella, Napoli 1929, Roma 2019) was born in a family of artistic traditions dating back to the 19th century. He began his artistic activity just finished the academic training at the Art Institute of Naples. The first exhibited painting of him is in 1948 and the first solo exhibition of him is in 1952, in Foggia (Italy). He continued then with hundreds of solo and group exhibitions, Biennials and Quadrennials, in Italy and abroad, also thanks to the passion for foreign languages (with a degree and specialization in Foreign Languages and Literature).

Figurative painter, sculptor and mural engraver (personal technique), he moved to Rome at the end of the 60s, with an atelier in P.zza San Luigi dei Francesi (near Pantheon), he enlivened the Roman artistic life of the 70s, with important publications and exhibitions (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Academy of Romania, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, etc.), receiving certificates of estimated by the most important critics and art historians, and by the best known other contemporary figurative artists, such as Annigoni, Brindisi, De Chirico, Fiume, Greco, Guttuso, Levi, Manzù, Omiccioli, Quattrini, Raimondi, Servolini, Treccani, whose works, with dedication, are in his personal collection, in memory of an extraordinary period of the Italian artistic circuit.

Tireless traveler and polyglot, his works are in galleries, private collections, churches and buildings audiences from Australia to South America, as well as Europe. It is present in the most accredited publications of art: encyclopedias, yearbooks, textbooks, art histories, etc. He is the author of numerous editions of figurative art, prose and poems, including the great success of his editions of Canaria and S.P.Q.R. Scultori, Pittori, Quartieri Romani - Guida all'Arte della Capitale.
The largest documentary collection of his artistic life is in Rome, at the State Archives.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1929
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists Artists presented by a gallery