Vladimiro Tomasi was born in Comacchio (Ferrara) on September 30th 1931. He works and lives in Turin since 1945 to 2003. At present he lives and works in Cortoghiana (Cagliari) in Via Bressan 59 Tel/Fax (+39) 0781.66.40.55 - Mobile: (+39) 349.59.78.394 He is an artist of recognized painting qualities, who has to his credit a conspicuous series of one-man shows, reviews and cultural demontrations, both in Italy and abroad. For his activity he has been decorated with prestigious recognitions. Tomasi's personality and work were widely treated in a monograph, cared on his behalf by Pentarco Editions in 1988, with a significant and exhaustive panorama of his works, followed by some of the innumerable critical essays dedicated to his works. With his publications Vladimiro Tomasi, taken the title it of Academic of the Tiberina Academy of Rome 1977, the Oscar for the figurative limbs or (visual) Montecarlo 1978, Main one of Contemporary Art 1983, who is known by practicioners of the art of painting as an emerging personality in the figurative-landscapist drawing up of facts, has wanted to dwell upon some peculiar moments of his creativity,by explicating and justifying the reasons which induced him to apply himself to subjects and themes which apparently are outside his usual artistic store. As a proof of the fact that every artist is - and mist be - and must be - always son of ihs time, Tomasi remarks and points out his presence today, by dwelling upon some events and constructing a kind of argument of moral, social and cultural character about specific events which had a deep and even suffered effect on his sensitiveness of man who pays attention to the time he lives and works in. It is a matter of events which have struck not only Tomasi's inner feelings, but a lot of people's minds and at times the whole mankind, if we teke, for example, the dramatic event which he calls 'an American tragedy', that is the murder of the brothers John and Robert Kennedy and of the symbol of coloured men's emancipation, Martin Luther King. Since he finds himself following again events which exceedingly marked Italian and world history, Tomasi lingers with pertinent recalls over the loss of some ideals and some presuppositions which brought about a decay of values and a degrading of the ethical component which troubled and alarmed not a little the consciences them who looked at this case with watchful and sharing eye. It is a matter of a reasoned analysis of a strip of present-day life which has permanently engraved the network of the community, by stimulanting, at the same time, regrets and hopes, bitternesses and illusions, renunciations and projections towards a future where there is room for a less ferocious and less materialistic behaviour of humanity. Giuseppe Nasillo