Claudio Verna was born in Guardiagrele, in the province of Chieti, in 1937.

He lives and works in Rome.

After studying in Umbria and graduating from the University of Florence with a thesis on ‘Figurative Arts in Industrial Civilization’, he began to enter the world of art with his first significant exhibitions in the Tuscan capital.

In 1971 he moved to Rome, and there began a real autonomous definition of his pictorial language. Verna emerges for consistency and expressive strength, so that his personal exhibitions - in Italy and abroad - now exceed one hundred. Including the “Biennale d’Arte di Venezia” in 1970, 1978 and 1980. 

In his paintings the color is never simple decoration: it is tension, thought, pure vibration. Verna investigates it in its saturation, in its ability to capture light, in its deep relationship with form. His compositions live in a constant balance between geometric rigor and emotional abandonment, ween rational planning and instinctive intuition. The surfaces of the painting are treated as a terrain to be explored: every centimeter is thought, every pictorial gesture is calibrated, but without ever giving up freedom.

Today Claudio is considered one of the most lucid and coherent protagonists of Italian art of the twentieth century, able to merge theoretical thought and chromatic sensitivity in an art that does not seek easy effect, but a deep dialogue with the viewer.