Rome 1914 - Rome 1998

Avant-garde painter, he was one of the founders of the Group63. He was director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and scenography professor at the University of Rome from ’53 to ’59. His paintings and poetry developed together with the need to contrast to the normal communication language, brave expressive modules, often founded on nonsense or irrational combinations. His painting developed in an abstract-concrete form with great colour painting of backgrounds (the famous prints), during his second American staying in 1960 – when he attended Rothko, Guston, Motherwell, De Kooning. Later, in the ‘80s his work was marked by the fury of gesture conciliating the
Becoming with the being. The most beautiful Scialoja’s canvases were born from this nostalgia of catching immediate shapes, already drawn in their fleeting whirlpools.