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Giuseppe Capogrossi (7 March 1900 – 9 October 1972) was an Italian painter.
In the 1930s Capogrossi participated to many group exhibitions in Rome, Venice and Milan and Paris, usually as associate to the so-called " Scuola romana" ("Roman school"). In 1930 he was invited to show at the 23rd edition of the
File:Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico - BEIC 6356371.jpg, Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, 1963
File:Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico - BEIC 6361507.jpg, Painting by Capogrossi, 1972
Short biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Capogrossi, Giuseppe 1900 births 1972 deaths Painters from Rome 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male painters Italian contemporary artists Olympic competitors in art competitions
Giuseppe Capogrossi (7 March 1900 – 9 October 1972) was an Italian painter.
Biography
Capogrossi was born inRome
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. After obtaining a degree in law in 1923–1924, he decided to study painting with Felice Carena
Felice Carena (13 August 1879 – 10 June 1966) was an Italian painter.
Biography
Born at Cumiana, he studied in the Turin's Accademia Albertina, where he attended symbolist poets such as Arturo Graf and Giovanni Cena. In 1906 he moved to ...
at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma is a public tertiary academy of art in Rome, Italy. It was founded in the sixteenth century, but the present institution dates from the time of the unification of Italy and the capture of Rome by the Kingdom ...
. In 1927 Capogrossi embarked on a formative trip to Paris
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together with fellow artist and acquaintance Fausto Pirandello
Fausto Calogero Pirandello (17 June 1899 – 30 November 1975) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the ''Scuola romana (Roman School)''. He was the son of Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello.
Biography
After a short experienc ...
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In the 1930s Capogrossi participated to many group exhibitions in Rome, Venice and Milan and Paris, usually as associate to the so-called " Scuola romana" ("Roman school"). In 1930 he was invited to show at the 23rd edition of the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
; In 1933 he signed with Emanuele Cavalli and others the "Manifesto del Primordialismo Plastico" (The Plastic Primordialism Manifest) and in 1934 he was one of the artists invited to the exhibition the "Exhibition of Contemporary Italian Painting" at the Western Art Museum in San Francisco
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.
In the years following World War II
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, Capogrossi's work changed in favour of a more abstract style. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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. In 1950 he was one of the founders of Gruppo Origine, together with Mario Ballocco, Alberto Burri and Ettore Colla in Milan. The group rented a gallery space in Rome where they had their only exhibition in January 1951. The show wasn't successful and the four disbanded a few months later.
Capogrossi subsequently became one of the main exponents of Italian informal art, together with Lucio Fontana
Lucio Fontana (; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He is mostly known as the founder of Spatialism.
Early life
Born in Rosario, to Italian immigrant parents, he was ...
and Alberto Burri. Capogrossi participated in the Premio Bergamo
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in 1939, 1940 and 1942, and in exhibitions such as the first edition of Documenta
''documenta'' is an exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany.
The ''documenta'' was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Horticultural ...
in Kassel
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(1955) and the third and fifth São Paulo Art Biennial
The São Paulo Art Biennial ( Portuguese: ''Bienal de São Paulo'') was founded in 1951 and has been held every two years since. It is the second oldest art biennial in the world after the Venice Biennale (in existence since 1895), which serves as ...
in 1955 and 1957.
Capogrossi died in Rome in 1972. In 2012, his work was the subject of a retrospective at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Collections
Capogrossi's work is held in the permanent collections of the Toledo Museum of Art, theBritish Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...
, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Williams College Museum of Art, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of t ...
.
Exhibition views and works
Selected bibliography
* *Sources
External links
*Short biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Capogrossi, Giuseppe 1900 births 1972 deaths Painters from Rome 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male painters Italian contemporary artists Olympic competitors in art competitions