Adriano Pompa

Born in Rome in 1965, son of art, third of the 5 children of Gaetano Pompa (painter and sculptor) and Dorothee Leendertz (photographer). After his scientific maturity, he decided to pursue an artistic career and follow in the footsteps of his father Gaetano, at whose studio in Rome he would work for 4 years; he would thus sharpen the technique of oil on very veiled canvas, graphics and sculpture, frequenting especially the workshops of the artisans who make the works of his father, (the Flaminia foundry for sculptures, the art print shop of Angelo Gabbanini for graphics, the Paolelli furnace in Rome for ceramics). He also attended the studies of the artist friends close to his father, who encouraged him to go ahead and continue his research, among them, Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni, Roberto Almagno... The period of learning as a workshop ends with an exhibition with his father held at the Galleria Rondanini in Rome in 1989 and presented by Vittorio Sgarbi. At the beginning of the 90s he moved to Milan to live with his future wife Barbara Borra (designer). Here he shared his studio in via Pomponazzi with the artists Enzo Umbaca and Enzo Rullo, from the conceptual sphere of the Brera Academy, frequents Bernhard Ruediger and Liliana Moro and the space of Lazzaro Palazzi. In this context, the belief that painting and especially drawing, have the strength to decipher and express an ancient and unique position in front of the world, is growing more and more a clear revelation of the fundamental importance of the manual and artisanal ability to describe a vision, a thought. In 1994 he moved to Via P. Giovio where he worked until 2013. In 2013 he founded with other artists the Cultural Association Art Marginem , where he works and teaches the various techniques Since 1990 he has participated in many group and personal exhibitions in Milan, Rome and especially in Emilia Romagna. In 1998 his father and his teacher Gaetano died. His association with his brother and colleague Lorenzo lead him to the conception and modelling of clay in forms that he will dispose of of the absolute white color: This first experience led him to an exhibition of only ceramics and drawings at the Merlini-Storti restoration studio in Rome in 2005. From this experience came orders for large bas-reliefs for the external decoration of facades and courtyards of palaces and country villas in Piacenza, Milan, Rome and Tuscany. Painting and, above all, drawing remain the "expressive and descriptive medium" preferred by Adriano Pompa; since 2015 has taken ,through the experience of terracotta sculpture, bronze sculpture.