Iker Spozio is an Italian painter based in Rome.
He comes, on his father’s side, from a family of painters specialising for several generations in mural painting, and learned traditional painting techniques from his father and grandfather from an early age.
He studied archaeology and art history at the University of Milan, graduating in Modern Art History. After working initially as an illustrator in the music and publishing fields, he devoted himself entirely to painting.
His practice often develops through an engagement with images and artistic traditions of the past, with a particular interest in antiquity and in the relationship between figuration, geometry and abstraction. Reduction plays a central role in his work: forms are progressively stripped of anecdotal or descriptive elements and organised through relationships of shape, weight, colour and balance.
Spozio works primarily in egg tempera, a technique he learned from his father and has used for many years. His interest in historical painting techniques is closely connected to a broader investigation of the material continuity of painting and of the ways in which images from the past can become the starting point for autonomous contemporary works.
In recent years, he has complemented his painting practice with periods of study, research and collaboration with museums and academic institutions in Italy and abroad.