Ivo Scaringi is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. Born in Trani on June 6, 1937, since his childhood he frequented the workshop of his father Nicola, a tireless and dedicated sculptor; this is precisely the environment in which Ivo Scaringi completed his moral and professional training.
In 1957 he began to attend the State Institute of Art in Bari, where among his masters he met Francesco Spizzico who would influence him most with his authentic and original painting; in 1961, after completing his studies and qualifying for teaching artistic disciplines, he began his career as a teacher at the Institute where he himself had studied where he remained until 1969.
Despite his teaching career, Ivo Scaringi devoted himself with great passion to artistic activity interspersed with numerous exhibitions. Scaringi's style is part of a wide-ranging field of investigation, not connected to precise movements, but which unites authors of different backgrounds, eager to recover the social function of the work of art. Without prejudice to the heterogeneity and independence of the individual proposals, emblematic for the Italian context is the rise in Milan of existential realism, an artistic movement that established itself among the second half of the fifties and the beginning of following decade, much vaster than just the names to which criticism usually restricts it. It can be framed in the broader framework of the post-war New Figuration, Existential Realism is a way of interpreting the world that artists approach with different degrees of (trans) figuration, moved by a common way of feeling and perceiving existence, between suffering and loneliness. It is the way of Vespignani, Ferroni, Guerreschi, Romagnoni but also, in a broader sense, of Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti, the undisputed protagonists of an international art season that contrast the pungent irony of Pop Art with the dramatic awareness of the human condition .
