WALTER NOETICO
SELF-PORTRAIT

BIOGRAPHY

Walter Noetico (born 14 July 1946, Vicenza, Italy) is an Italian painter, sculptor, and writer. He is the founder of two artistic movements: indimensionalism and neoilluminism. He is also the inventor of new artistic techniques and of the new Alphabet, Neoilluminist Alphabet, in which every letter has a symbol of a woman and a man

In 1966, Noetico studied Art and Architecture in Ca Foscari University in Venice and in 1972 graduated therefrom. He began to do his first indimensional paintings in 1968, at first with positive and negative geometric opposition and then with relativistic concepts.

Neoilluminist (or New Enlightenment) Art was conceived in the year 1987 and runs to present date (published in the newspaper "La Repubblica" on 23 April 1987). One of the enunciative propositions of Noetico is that Neoilluminism arises from a need to raise contemporary Mankind out of spiritual, moral, cultural and social decandence.

This Art Movement includes an invention of the new Neoilluminist (or New Enlightenment) Alphabet in which every letter has a symbol of a woman and a man, and the use of unique painting technique which develops in bas-relief (low-relief) and high-relief. Thus figures in the foreground are sculpted in high-relief, those in the background in low-relief, which create a three-dimensional paintings on wood panel painted in enamel and covered with gold leaf.

Art Activities

While in Milan, in the 1980, Noetico became passionate about the Enlightenment philosophy and began studying all the philosophers of the eighteenth century, in particular the Treaties on the aesthetics by Denis Diderot, who became Noetico's inspiration.

In 1987, an exhibition of his works inspired by the Enlightenment, was held in the Gallery of Ada Zunino, with a catalogue presentation of the important international critic Gillo Dorfles, who concluded his presentation by saying: "The lucidity of Noetico's mind merits to be in the Sacredness of Art"

In October 1988, Noetico founded the artistic movement of "Neoilluminismo" ("Neoilluminism" or "New Enlightenment"), with the first exhibition alongside with other Italian Sculptors: Bruno Chersicla, Walter Francone, Nino Maggio, Francesco Petrollo and others, with a catalogue presentation by Raffaele De Grada,at the Art Gallery of Ada Zunino in Milan, which will become the headquarters of Neoilluminismo.

In 1990, the Neoilluminist group was invited by the City of Cortina dì Ampezzo to exhibit at Cortina Terrace, with catalogue presentation by Raffaele De Grada

In the same year, at the interest of art critic Everardo Dalla Noce, Noetico was invited with his Neoilluminist group, to the Municipality of Sarnano Terme, where Silvio Ceccato (philosopher and friend of artists such as (Lucio Fontana) made the presentation in the catalogue for this event.

Also in 1990, in Salo, Italy (BS) Noetico creates the Neoilluminist Foundation unveiling a permanent exhibition of Neoilluminist Artists group.

This Foundation will relocate in 1999 first to Cortona (AR), and since 2008 to Limoges, France.