Must See TV Staring Biagio Gino Civale

CABLE TV: Brian Harrod Is Not Just The Editor And Publisher Of The Hyper Local "Yonkers Newswire" Facebook Newsgroup, He Is Also The Producer And Host Of The "Westchester County Roundup" Cable TV" Program, Which This Week Is Featuring Biagio Gino Civale And His Art Work. 

WATCH IT: The "Westchester County Roundup" Cable TV" Program Airs On Altice's #Cablevision channel 75 and Verizon's #FIOS channel 47 

And after the show airs it will be posted here on the Yonkers Newswire

You can learn more about Biagio Gino Civale

http://www.civale.org/

Biagio Gino Civale will also be involved with the Yonkers Arts Weekend (YAW), a celebration of the thriving and diverse arts community in the City of Yonkers, is Saturday, May 5th & Sunday, May 6th!

www.YonkersArtsWeekend.com.

Brian Harrod just can't wait to do this Cable TV Show on Biagio Gino Civale, because he is just an amazing man and we all should be as active as he is at 80 years old.

At age 19, without specific artistic preparation, Biagio Gino Civale was selected to exhibit in an Art Gallery, at Piazza Esedra in Rome, Italy.

Simultaneously his first collection of poems was published in Italy ( Glarus 1954).

The following year Biagio Gino Civale was selected as an Italian representative to be included in the two main juried French national art events, l’Ecole Francaise and l’Art Libre (1955), in Paris, France.

At age 20, Biagio Gino Civale first major solo exhibition was held at the prestigious Galerie Chardin, at Rue de Seine, in Paris, France; my work was noted by two important art critics of the time (Roland Charmet for ARTS and Irenee Mauget for Maison des Intellectuels.

From 1956 to 1976 Biagio Gino Civale was a member of the Italian Association of Engravers (Printmakers), IDIT, under the direction of Luigi Servolini and the patronage of Marc Chagall.  As an engraver my prints were exhibited in various European cities.

At age 39, the Australian Center in Rome, Italy selected a few of his woodcuts for the exhibition” The Modern Italian EX LIBRIS “.  The publication of Printmakers of Italy included me among the top one hundred artists.

At age 40, five hundred of Biagio Gino Civale's artworks were displayed and filled an entire church.  All proceeds were donated to the religious administration of the site in Scarperia (FI).

At age 41, Biagio Gino Civale showed in Geneva, Switzerland and became a permanent “stable artist” in a dozen art galleries, from Italy to France and to New Zealand.  I also obtained a major one-man show at the International Art Gallery of Via Tornabuoni, in Florence.

At age 46 he was honored with a major solo exhibition at IL PUNTO art gallery along the Arno river, in Florence; which was curated by the celebrated architect Franco Gurrieri.

At age 55, Biagio Gino Civale was honored with a major retrospective show at Palazzo Ranghiasci, in Gubbio, Italy and a related book publication (1950-1990).

At age 56, his works were exhibited in various towns in Japan, Tokyo, Chiba, Okinawa as well as in Taiwan and Thailand.

At his exhibition in Hangzhou, China Biagio Gino Civale was the first American to sell western art to the Chinese public in that city, according to the local newspapers.

From 1987 to 1993 Biagio Gino Civale operated, and curated for, the West Room Gallery in #Yonkers, New York, organizing 50 international group exhibitions, with artists from the whole world.

In the late nineties and until 2007 Biagio Gino Civale became one of the ten best sellers in the Paintings DIRECT website; selling an average of one piece every month.

At age 68, the Molloy College, of Rockville Centre, New York, dedicated a major solo exhibition to Biagio Gino Civale large artworks (ten plus feet wide).

From 2009 to 2014, he co-curated the Yonkers Artists Annual Juried Exhibition (for the Yonkers Arts).

During 2013/2014 Biagio Gino Civale donated six hundred artworks to Montedomini, Florence, for their auctions to benefit  less fortunate and unemployed women.

The city honored this event with a large outdoor poster.

Biagio Gino Civale constantly donates artwork  to Charities and Social Causes of merit, in Europe, North and South America.

Biagio Gino Civale's images continue to appear on fifty websites, globally, with some offering prints of the images.

He has created about five thousand images and published four thousand multiples, in various styles, from figurative to abstract.

Biagio Gino Civale's work has been cited in numerous magazine articles and books throughout his sixty-six years itinerary.

At age 80, Biagio Gino Civale assembled samples of my works for a 65 years retrospective exhibition at Andrus on Hudson in Hastings.

The Rivertowns Enterprise publication related the event with a good analysis.

https://www.facebook.com/biagio.g.civale