Tony Nicotra is an Italian Artist that was born in Caracas Venezuela on 17 August 1971.

I have always exhibited an insatiable curiosity for the world that surrounds me, and have passionately tried to express my inquisitiveness through drawing and painting. As a young man after finishing my Fine Arts studies, (where by my talents were developed and refined), and with increasing recognition of my artistic skills, I was appropriated into the discipline of restorative art where I worked prodigiously for many years. During this period I won critical acclaim amongst my peers, for successfully restoring numerous important and prestigious Italian works of art and monuments including, The Arena of Verona, The Cathedral of Catania, The Royal Palace of Venaria in Turin as well as the Italian Embassy in Berlin, to name but a few.

Yet despite all these accomplishments, and still driven by my insatiable and ardent desire to fathom the truth and raison d’être of the existence of life, of humanity, and its relationship with its delicate environs, I elected to temporarily suspend my career, to commence a long period of introspective soul searching. I devoted myself exclusively to the search of inner wisdom through the pursuit of knowledge, with a view of liberating the soul within. During this endeavour, I became an avid scholar of various metaphysical and spiritual disciplines, and, despite severe financial constraints and hardships, found myself compelled to pursue a personal and arduous pilgrimage, by walking The Route of Santiago di Compostela, better known as the pilgrimage of St James Path, ending in Santiago Spain.

During this journey I became inspired to study the field of Quantum Physics, and coupled with the knowledge previously gained, I finally found the answers to my deepest questions. Renewed by this personal experience, my quest is to now share my new found understanding and wisdom, through the communicative medium of artistic works, literary prose, and poetry. To this end, I have currently devoted my artistic ability, to the pursuit of rendering tangible and visible, the enigmatic invisible energy fields that constitute the universe and life within it.

My aim is to awaken in all humanity, the awareness and wonder, of the interrelatedness of all that exists, through the interactive dance of fundamental energy forms that constitute both living and non living things. This knowledge is rarely acknowledged, nor experienced by the uninitiated majority. Thus, my mission as an artist, is to utilize my personal wisdom, my faith and my new found perception of self as a singular, liberated and enlightened being, to demonstrate the existence of life as a divine source of permeating energy, constantly pulsating through dynamic and cyclic interactions.

Tony Nicotra nasce a Caracas (Venezuela) il 17/08/1971.

Sin da piccolo attratto dal mondo e dalle sue bellezze, si appassiona per la sua enorme curiosità, per ogni cosa. Inizia dalle scuole elementare a dipingere, accrescendo la sua conoscenza e la tecnica pittorica.

Finite le scuole superiori, si dedica allo studio del restauro monumentale che lo porta a girare e a restaurare le opere più importanti d’Italia e non solo, restaurando decine di monumenti di elevato pregio, come (l’Arena di Verona, la Cattedrale di Catania, La reggia di Venaria Reale di Torino, l’Ambasciata Italiana a Berlino, ecc). Ma la sua attenzione è rivolta a tutto ciò che lo circonda, e che lo conduce ad una ricerca insaziabile della spiritualità, attraverso la scienza e le diverse dottrine, di cui diventa uno studioso.

In questo periodo di grande ricerca, non trova più l’ispirazione per le sue opere, le considera un periodo di morte dell’arte e dell’artista.

Negli anni successivi gravi problemi economici lo portano ancor di più sulla ricerca della verità del perché delle cose, alla bramosia della ricerca interiore e al vero significato della vita. Il continuo desiderio di sentirsi libero come individuo, lo trascina a fare un’esperienza di pellegrinaggio che lo segna profondamente, il cammino di Santiago di Compostela.

Da lì, inizia lo studio della fisica meccanica quantistica, nella quale trova le risposte che cerca, provando ad esprimerla nella vita attraverso l’arte, la poesia e la comunicazione.

Ritrova una grande ispirazione nel percepire tutto ciò che circonda l’universo, una grande energia invisibile all’uomo, ma tangibile per i cuori nobili e consapevoli del proprio essere, questo grazie alla fede e agli studi, alle percezioni che lo inducono a vedere le cose del mondo come essere libero, cellula divina e attraverso tutti i sensi che percepiscono i campi d’energia che avvolgono il tutto. Dove tutto è uno.