'The art of ARNALDO MICCOLI, Apulian by origin and American by choice, displays an articulated and multiple nature, which is tied both to the old world and the new, both to the far atavic past and the most recent present.
Having been Franco Gentilini's disciple at the Academy of Arts in Rome, he follows his teacher with regards to his choices, which have changed little during all his career: figuration yes, but a figuration far from realistic virtuosity being an end in itself, from baroquian and fanatically self-centered involutions which are typical of De Chirico and of expressionisms in the style of "Guttuso" or "Carlo Levi" '.

by Vittorio Sgarbi from the show "Clones and icons in the third millenium"

Fondazioni Memmo, Lecce, Italy

ARNALDO MICCOLI was born in Cavallino (Lecce), Italy. He graduated from the Institute of Art G. Pellegrino in Lecce and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome with Gentilini. He also attended the Catholic University of Social Studies in Rome, Italy.

In 1960 he published his poems in vernacular titled: "Fiuri Te Campagna".

In 1962 he founded a local satirical newspaper titled: "Lu Lacquaru".

In 1965 he moved to the United States, in New Jersey, painting and teaching at the same time.

In 1973 he returned to Rome where he held several one man-shows and group shows in Italy and in Europe.

He returned to the United States in 1975 where he has dedicated himself entirely to his art since then. His work is in many collections in Europe and in the United States.