BERTO LAMA

(Naples, Italy, 1947)

Berto Lama was born in Naples but lives and works between Rome and Pozzuoli. A multifaceted artist, he has been a costume designer, set designer, author and theatre actor. Since the 1980s, he has focused on the production of works made with the use and manipulation of fabrics that are cut, assembled, decorated, inlaid and hardened with vinyl resins, into which he often inserts stones. This gives rise to precious ‘sculptures’ and the famous ‘spider webs’, through which the artist tells mythological stories. Lama’s painting goes far beyond the surface, his ‘paintings’ of fabrics, canvases and damasks are to look at but also to touch, they have softness and folds to explore not only with the eye. In the 1990s he realised an impressive installation for Lia Rumma in the curia of Sant’Anna in Nantes, in 2000 he had a solo exhibition at the Paola Verrengia Gallery in Salerno, with which he also participated in numerous exhibitions. In 2021, he realised the installation “Tutti giù per Terra” in Pozzuoli, in the Rione Terra. His works are in prestigious public and private collections.