Claudio Castilletti was born in Vittoria in Sicily in 1990. He trained at the S. Fiume State Institute of Art in Comiso. Here he creates a picture for the "Art donated" event, a fundraiser for the Maria Paternò Arezzo hospital in Ragusa.
At the age of 19 he moved to Catania, where he obtained a three-year degree at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania in Scenography for New Media. During these years, he worked as a scenographer for the film - documentary “Vespero” directed by Nicolò Cappello and Alessandro Gravano, and, in 2013, he designed an exhibition set-up for a culinary exhibition in a Brussels gallery.
In 2014 he moved to Vibo Valentia where he graduated from the Fidia Academy of Fine Arts in Painting. In this year he has the good fortune to meet and work with Gaspare di Caro world-famous illuminographer and artist with whom he creates the graphic lighting projects of Mondial Granit S.P.A. In 2015, supported by the master Gesualdo Spampinato, he began a path of pictorial research on expressive freedom. One of the paintings created is exhibited at the LIMEN Museum of Contemporary ART in Vibo Valentia selected during the LIMEN ARTE international competition.
In 2016 he approached ceremonial photography working for the Idea Foto studio.
In 2017 he collaborates with Walter Manfrè and, as a set designer, first he realizes the scenes for "the Schwarz dragon" with his debut at the Naselli theater in Comiso and in 2018 again for Manfrè's direction he realizes, this time as a videographer, the short film " Liollà ". In these years he worked as a set designer on the film '' Cristiano Rolando ", directed by Alessio Micieli, distributed in cinemas all over Sicily and currently DISTRIBUTED BY AMAZON PRIME (for the United States, UK and Italy) with a debut in the cities of Montclair (New Jersey ), Brooklyn (New York) and Los Angeles (California).
In 2017 he worked for the Coperativa Aletheia section La Prima TV as RVM Operator (Direction, Video and Editing).
In those years, interest in reportage photography strengthened, which saw him participate in the exhibition "Comiso in a click" sponsored by the Municipality of Comiso.
The interest in photography, a research path that sees ceremonial photography in an authorial key, leads him in 2019 to refine his skills and deepen his knowledge through the attendance of the two-year specialist in Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania.
In 2019 he made the short film 'People look and don't see' directed by Liliana Stimolo and presented for the Vittoria Pace Film Fest. Between 2020 and 2021 he exhibited in various exhibitions between Catania Parma and Milan.
In 2021 he founded Nero Art Gallery and among the various exhibitions he curated and set up the exhibition of the artist Giuseppe Stornello entitled Happy Ending exhibition appreciated by one of the world's greatest art collectors, the Greek Dakis Joannou.
Founder of the Ironic Expressionism in Photography saw him participate in two major exhibitions, one in Comiso Move To Trash and one in Milan C€ No Conformity Guaranteed.
He is currently working on two publications on the ceremony and combines his research activity with teaching at public and private institutions.
He lives between Comiso and Catania.
- Progetti Scenografici / Scenographic Projects
2012 Come scenotecnico lavora per il Film - documentario “Vespero” Regia di Nicolò Cappello e Alessandro Gravano.
2012 Lavora alla realizzazione di "Falling" cortometraggio, il cui tema tratta “la perdizione delle vertigini” lavoro svolto con Santo Giranio, Valentino Presti per il professore Giuseppe Rossi.
2013 progettata un allestimento espositivo per una mostra culinaria in una galleria di Bruxelles.
2014 lavora per Gaspare di Caro realizzando i rendering grafici per l’illuminazione della Mondial Granit s.p.a.
2017 inizia a lavorare come Scenografo nella Compagnia Teatrale Kreatimondo per la realizzazione di uno spettacolo “il drago di Schwarz” (Regia di Walter Manfrè)
2017 lavora come Scenografo al film ‘’Cristiano Rolando" regia di Alessio Micieli distribuito nei cinema di tutta la Sicilia ed attualmente DISTRIBUITO DA AMAZON PRIME( per Stati Uniti e England, in italiano, SUB ENG) con debutto nelle città di Montclair (New Jersey), Brooklyn (New York) e Los Angeles (California).
- Progetti Videografici / Videographic Projects
2017 lavora per la Coperativa Aletheia sezione La Prima TV come Operatore RVM (Regia, Video e Montaggio)
2018 realizza un cortometraggio su Pirandello (Liolà) con il regista Walter Manfrè.
2019 Cortometraggio “La gente guarda e non vede” Regia Liliana Stimolo Vittoria Pace Film Fest
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Esposizioni collettive / Group Exibitions
2009 "L'arte donata", event aimed at raising funds for the construction of a Radiotherapy bunker at the Oncology Division of the Maria Paternò Arezzo Hospital in Ragusa;
2015 'Limen Arte International Prize'. One of the paintings produced is exhibited at the Limen Museum of Contemporary Art in Vibo Valentia. Curators Prof. Vincenzo Le Pera, Prof. Giorgio Di Genova, Prof. Lara Caccia, Prof. Giorgio Bonomi;
2017 participates in the photographic exhibition 'Comiso in un clic' with the patronage of the Municipality of Comiso;
2020 he exhibited in the collective art exhibition for the event 'BiscArt Festival' at the Castle of the Counts of Biscari in Acate under the patronage of the Municipality of Acate;
2020 exhibited in the collective 'Sine Die' in Catania at the Palazzo della Cultura. Photographic exhibition organised by the 'Oelle Foundation';
2020 exhibits at Palazzo Labisi in Comiso for the exhibition 'Terra' organised by Maestro Giovanni Pace;
2020 he exhibited in Faenza and Parma for the travelling exhibition 'Let's do It' sponsored by the Emilia Romagna Region;
2021 exhibits at Nero Art Gallery in Comiso in a photographic collection entitled 'Move To Trash';
2021 exhibits at Zona Blu in Milan in a three-man show entitled 'C€ No Conformity Guaranteed'.
Curatore / Curator
Move to Trash 2021exhibits at Nero Art Gallery
Happy Ending 2021Giuseppe Stornello exhibitsat Nero Art Gallery
(ExibArtGiuseppe Stornello Happy Ending)
(UAUMAGAZINE La morte come spettacolo)
(ATENE- UN' OPERA DELL' ARTISTA ACATESE GIUSEPPE STORNELLO NELLE COLLEZIONI DI DAKISJOANNOU)
Pubblicazioni / Publications
Catalogo Mostra L’arte donata 2009
Catalogo Mostra Premio internazionale Limen Arte 2015