Lucio Amelio

[citation needed] Due to the Second World War, his family moved several times and settled in 1944 for twelve years in Resina.

[citation needed] After graduating in 1949 from Liceo scientifico, Amelio enrolled in architecture studies at the University of Naples.

[citation needed] Amelio quickly established himself as a leading figure in the international contemporary art market from the mid-sixties to the mid-nineties.

In 1969 he opened the Galleria Lucio Amelio in Naples’ Piazza dei Martiri, which hosted exhibitions of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Mario Merz, Jannis Kounellis, Keith Haring, Cy Twombly, Dieter Hacker.

In the middle of the marble slab, under the name of "Lucio Amelio", a circle is engraved, the interior of which, at the highest level of the sun, causes an intense light through a mirror effect; below is the inscription L'isola del Sonno (Isle of Sleep), which cites the title of a small object created by Joseph Beuys in Capri in the summer of 1974.