Erasmo Amato  Biography,

Italian, born  on the Amalfi  coast, (this small piece of land  was a birthplace of famous painters  from the Middle Ages  with the same family name, like Giovanni Angelo Amato or the artist's families "d' Amato" whose pieces of art are still to be admired in the churches by Atrani and Ravello  etc.  It is not known whether between  "Amato"   Families a direct relationship exists. However, the likelihood is big very much).For Erasmo Amato the drawing since the early school years has been always his big passion,but he had to choose a different way for his professional life. He attended a college in Salerno and finished it as an electrical engineer, then he went to the university in Naples. There were a lot of different reasons why he decided to leave the university and to move to Munich (Germany), looking for a job. In Germany he worked with automatic data processing systems, which were used before the personal computer came in each office. His fantasy and his skill as manual worker has been an important part in his job and his life. But in his free time he has always  made creative projects. Attending courses of watercolor painting, painting to oil, caricature and ceramics he learned to express himself. His works are not limited to the traditional Painting but it is a continuo’s try with modern computer graphics photography   His passion for the drawing and the cartoons then, tries critically to analyze in humorous key a few looks of the society in whom we live.To  the  first  collective  of  "  ARTE-QUATTRO  ",  group  of  artists  of  Munich  (Germany),of  which  Erasmo Amato  is initiator, he presented some compositions with the age-oldtechnology of the Pyrography ( burning with glowing metal point in wood) he thusdemonstrating the harmony of the ancient  techniques with the issues of our day. On the art exhibition "Arte Quattro" was also a children book presented, (written in two languages,German and Italian,  and by him illustrated ), a fairy tale of the Mediterranean area  partly forget,which his grandmother always, before falling asleep in  his childhood him  narrates. "the story of chickpea  (better known in Naples as   o' cunt' do Cicer’ ).

(The translation was partly carried out with Translator!!)

Exhibitions and  art-fairs:

-  2010  Akzenta 2010, Graz(A)  with  "ARTE QUATTRO"

-  2009 12.th International art fair Salzburg(A) 2009 with  "ARTE-QUATTRO"

-  2009 13.th International fair of contemporary art  " Art Innsbruck "  2009 with  "ARTE-QUATTRO"

-  2009 July  Collective of art, at the offices of the District Government of Upper Bavaria in Munich (D)

-  2008  Collective Exhibition "ARTE-QUATTRO" in  the orangerie  from English garden in  Munich (D)

-  2007  Collective Exhibition  "Cross-Cultural Exhibition Vienna" JMA Gallery in Wien (A)

-  2006  Exhibition of Painting "Filippo Juvara  award"   Messina (Italy)

-  2006  International Image Festival "2006" in Chaves - Portugal

-  2006  Collective Exhibition  in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, (Cannes-France)

-  2004  2. Biennale International   of contemporary art of  Ferrara

-  2004  Member of the Kunstverein Ottobrunn Munich(D)

-  2004 Member of the Associazione Culturale Pro-Art Ferrara ( I )