"Through the Arts and Culture, knock down the borders, creating respect for diversity, we become citizens of the world. "

This is the challenge that men like Anthony Miniaci dumped more than those who accept their thinking.

Anthony Miniaci has dedicated his life to art with passion and dedication.

Italy has always needed men of culture to pursue ambitious projects with humility and perseverance, who could change the status quo and trigger mechanisms of modernization and change.

One of these men is that Anthony Miniaci with tenacity and tireless work has made the big dream of creating an international, The World Art Gallery, companies ranging from art galleries in Italy and abroad, cultural tourism, Wellness centers, the museum exhibits, events that involve a cross-culture.

Anthony Miniaci, supported by a competent staff who over the years has been able to realize his ideas of renewal and functionality has created a network of tunnels in Italy and around the world, opening to China and particularly in Hong Kong.

The gallery was born from a simple family of the South, at the gates of Paestum, in the province of Salerno.

At thirteen he went to study at a college of Dominicans in Arezzo, where is his first encounter with the arts through attendance at a Friar, who became his mentor.

A twenty-one years, driven by love for art, opened his first Caffe Art in Piazza Piemonte in Milan giving the first paintings of Italian masters.

Here they met a big art dealer.

Years of training by myself, driven only by love for art, and is prepared with great initiative, humility and sacrifice.

He knows the great masters such as Marc Chagall, Guttuso, Giacomo Manzu ', Sassu, Mimmo Rotella, Lucio Del Pezzo, Sandro Chia and many others.

Deepen his knowledge of modern and convivial with great teachers and artists who would become a few years by big names in the art scene.

He began his mercantile business offering graphic(Screen printing, Acquatinte, Acquaforti, Lithography), at various galleries in Italy.

From there a few years, creates its own company.

He began working exclusively with some artists, discusses the works of the great contemporary masters, and in the early eighties he opened his first gallery in Positano.

After a couple of years opens second gallery in Capri, in the famous "square" and then returned to Tuscany and opens its third gallery in San Gimignano in the province of Siena.

Various artists and organizes personal exhibitions in museums and public institutions.

The activity of the fast-growing company founded by Miniaci.

In the late eighties the gallery he founded the Club Miniaci and became editor of Art in the World. Post graphics great contemporary masters.

Relying on a large Italian-American customers enter in the Association Italians in the world with some responsibility and start to organize cultural routes in the world, especially in Italy.

Constructs the Persian Country Club to create the foundation, at the gates of Salerno, where he was born.

The Persian Country Club becomes the meeting point of international artists, promotion of cultural events and traditions of the area, an example of dedication and love for his homeland and its citizens.

In the early nineties, decides to open a gallery in his adopted city for more than thirty years, Milan.

The position of the gallery was chosen by Miniaci with care and love for art, Brera is the site chosen, near the heart of contemporary Italian, the Academy of Fine Arts, that so many teachers gave to the story.

From the beginning the gallery becomes a meeting place of great artists, organizes cultural events involving people of music, journalists, actors, great writers and art critics.

Constantly traveling between Italy and the United States, American collectors and clients invite him to the Caribbean, the charming and enchanting island of Anguilla and fascinated by those places Miniaci, decides to open his own gallery.

In 2001, a New York, Fifth Avenue, under the Empire State Building, opens the Atelier Miniaci, with best wishes and support of a large group of collectors, but unfortunately after the tragic events of 11 September and the collapse of the Twin Towers, the project is delayed.

Miniaci did not give up, back to Italy and opened a gallery in Venice, near the historic La Fenice theater and returns to his old dream of a boy, to open a restaurant that combines Arts, music and good food, something different from the usual gallery and it opens to Positano Art Cafe, the Conwinum, with the collaboration of one of the greatest Italian chef, a true artist of the culinary, Don Alfonso in Sant'Agata dei Due Golfi (Sorrento).

In the meantime continues to organize exhibitions of great masters in museums around the world.

With Mimmo Rotella in Mexico and the United States and so has his galleries in major international exhibitions of contemporary art such as New York, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Bologna, Milan, Paris etc..

Miniaci's life is full of fascinating and significant meetings.

Anthony Miniaci Atelier Hong Kong

The last one that affects the lifetime of Miniaci, is the encounter with Fabio De Rosa and Maria Miniaci who invite him to go to Hong Kong.

Miniaci fascinated from the East, even more so by China.

Meets with the dealers and the most important figures of contemporary Eastern Europe and in particular with the oriental art expert Mr. Chang is a beautiful friendship .... He finds himself with Chef Umberto Bombana - formerly known in Italy - Italian abroad only awarded 3 Michelin put. Miniaci back to his dream: open a coffee literary, Restaurant and Gallery Museum.

Since December 2010, waiting to open the cultural space, is already in place an effective collaboration between the two, they have created an exhibition with international artists of high level, come: Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol e Sandro Chia.

Anthony Miniaci is supported in its plans by Ilaria Miniaci, that is inheriting the reins of the company, involved since childhood love for art and grew up in this fantasy world so rich in suggestions. But the best thing, although the most difficult, is that his son Gianluca, is an established artist, especially abroad. Of course, with all the problems of the great artists. Gianluca, Indeed, decides to work with other merchants and dealers, to assert its autonomy, which leads to large claims and personal satisfaction.

Santillo Connie is in charge of the place of Positano, Rosa while Savarese is the responsibility of the Persian Country Club.

That of Anthony Miniaci, is a challenge that involves all the more souls united in one love: love for art and beauty.