La Regina di Ghiaccio e la Regina Nera, 2017

Mista Acrilico

50X70 cm

La Dolcezza dei Colori, 2017

Mista Acrilico

50X70 cm

Property of the artist

Curator Daniele Prearo

Special Thanks to Dominika Zamara e Enrico Bertato

Disability, an added value to the Art

The young painter from Padua, Thomas Prearo, was born on 09.08.1982

in the picturesque Euganean Hills. He lives and works in Galzignano

Terme. Thomas, an artist with disabilities, had already showed aptitudes

towards the use of colours at a very young age, which were enhanced and

developed during his school years. He attended the Art Institute “Pietro

Selvatico” in Padua where he was directed towards the specialization in

”Painting and Decoration”. During his first years in the Institute he was

guided by Professor Cristina Boaretto, a person whom with he has a

special bond. She has managed, regardless all the difficulties, to give him

a good foundation that has proved to be very useful later in his works.

After finishing school in 2006, he came into contact with the Art’s critic

Gabriella Niero, who, after seeing over fifty of his paintings decided to

expose some of them at the exhibition “Emergent painters” at S.Vidal

Art’s Gallery in Venice . It was his first exposition and from that moment

Thomas has started his professional career, exposing in Italy and abroad.

The artist uses the ‘Stream of thought’ technique to extract images from

his canvas, without having the perception of what it will become and

the result comes out almost immediately. Only after the image has been

completely defined, a title is given to the painting. In some cases images

that represent faces can be seen in his paintings.

The young painter from Padua, Thomas Prearo, was born on

09.08.1982 in the picturesque Euganean Hills. He lives and works

in Galzignano Terme. Thomas, an artist with disabilities, had already

showed aptitudes towards the use of colours at a very young age,

which were later developed during his school years. He attended

the Art Institute “Pietro Selvatico” in Padua where he was directed

towards the specialization in ” Painting and Decoration”. During

his first years in the Institute he was guided by Professor Cristina

Boaretto, a person whom with he has a special bond. She has

managed, regardless all the difficulties, to give him a good foundation

that has proved to be very useful later in his works. After finishing

school in 2006, he came into contact with the Art’s critic Gabriella

Niero, who, after seeing over fifty of his paintings decided to expose

some of them at the exhibition “ Emergent painters” at S.Vidal Art’s

Gallery in Venice . It was his first exposition and from that moment

Thomas has started his professional career, exposing in Italy and

abroad.

The artist uses the ‘Stream of thought’ technique to extract images

from his canvas, without having the perception of what it will become

and the result comes out almost immediately. Only after the image

has been completely defined, a title is given to the painting. In some

cases images that represent faces can be seen in his paintings.

At the 1° “Biennale della Creatività” at Verona 2014 inaugurated by

Vittorio Sgarbi in presence of his godmother Katia Ricciarelli and art

critics Paolo Levi, Thomas expressed on stage his thoughts on art

and disability: “Even those with disabilities can make art”.