The Vico Equense painter Sergio Buonocore gave Paolo Ascierto a portrait. The artist gave the piece to Professor Ascierto to thank him for the proof of his commitment and work given during Covid-19 pandemic. Sergio Buonocore, born in Vico Equense in 1966, returned to his native city after a 5 years stay in Venice (1994-1999), where he met Giorgio De Gasperi, one of the greatest illustrators of 1900s, who passed him down the great passion for drawing and portrait. He produced many portraits for public and television celebrities, among which, stand out Maurizio Costanzo, Claudia Cardinale, Stefania Sandrelli, Antonella Clerici, Katherine Kelly Lang, Peppe Barra, Antonino Cannavacciuolo, Biagio Izzo, Massimiliano Gallo, Leo Gullotta, Marisa Laurito, Philippe Daverio. He has indeed been given the nickname of “Celebrities Portraitist”. Pope Benedict XVI and President Sergio Mattarella were given a portrait manufactured by the artist as well. In 2016 he began a new pictorial cycle moving from watercolour pencil drawing to oil, acrylic and resin with golden leaves. In 2017 he took part in a collective exhibition at the Roccha Paoline in Perugia with a work praised by critic Vittorio Sgarbi, the same year he exhibited at the Diocesan Museum of Terni “premio G. L.G.Byron”; in December he took part in “Magister Artis”, the monumental complex of Cava de’ Tirreni with Vittorio Sgarbi. The writer Alberto Bevilacqua, talking about Buonocore, stated: «I immediately appreciated this artist’s colours, his love for life, for what is beautiful and good. “He” is his art! ». Source il Mattino.it
