Diego Minuti, Trapani, 1956.
In 1960, he moved to Cosenza, where he currently lives and works. He graduated from the Artistic High School of Cosenza and completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, under the guidance of masters F. Farulli and D. Viggiani. Since 1980, he has regularly attended the Roman studio of master Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni, where, thanks to Ferroni’s valuable advice, he learned the secrets of techniques used by great masters of the past.
In 2011, he participated in the 54th Venice Biennale.
In recent years, his research has become more analytical, exploring dimensions from the real to the dreamlike-conceptual. Besides the materials of classic painting, he uses anything that can stimulate his creativity, such as marble, wood, bronze, and mosaic, giving his art more space for three-dimensionality. This often leads him to create true pictorial-sculptural cycles. His art evokes enchanted and mysterious images, sometimes using classical or mythological themes as a pretext. This serves to give vent to his continuous and frantic research, with the conviction that anything can be used to create emotions and new magic. With tones of black, brown, and ochre, he brings out the strongly material ghosts of the unconscious, fragments of the artist’s private memory, childhood memories, objects, shadows, and dreams long kept in a drawer, blending with landscapes rich in symbols and matter. The atmosphere is always muffled, suspended. References to the past—marble heads, busts, hands, toys, and more—remain trapped in layers of color or various materials, like in the meshes of “memory.”

His works are found in important public and private collections.