Maurizio Camatta was born in Polla (SA) and lives and works in Pieve di Soligno (TV), where he is an active member of the Arti Visive group of Vittorio Veneto. The beholder of Maurizio Camatta's paintings can't help being carried away into the quiet and silence of a long yearned for bucolic scenery, where man is mere present absence: houses on the horizon, hay ricks and flickering lights quietly burning away behind the windows of his rare nocturnal scenes all seem to conjure up our being here, our living on this earth, our daily work; in these paintings, though, our presence is hardly tangible, we are just nothing more than the spellbound spectators of a land where we do not belong, except for our imagination, our innermost desires. In his usage of materials as well there is a constant need to keep all that's trivial at arm's length; the need for a steadfast support for his painting-monuments: a panel, not a bare cotton canvas; jute, the humble material used to support the gravity of his plaster figures and his thick layers which shape the tridimensionality of the painting into a materiality eternally on the verge of exploding out of its very same being and making thus the image like a magnet for those who get near it. Camatta held important exhibitions in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and his works are listed in the: Annuario d'Arte Moderna Archivio storico museo delle Arti Palazzo Bandera (VA).