Fabrizio Campanella, “Painting of a Young Man”, 1980, Oil on Canvas, 91 x 61 cm, Private Collection
Born in 1965 in Rome, abstract artist Fabrizio Campanella’s creative work was primarily inspired by the culturally tumultuous period of the 1980s. The Neo Geo and The Pictures Generation became prominent art movements during this decade, alongside Neo-Expressionism which became well-known in Germany, France and Italy. Currently living and working in Rome, Campanella is a member of Art Club International, the independent artistic association founded by Italian abstractionist painter Piero Dorazio in 1995.
Campanella had his first solo exhibition in 1992 at the La Gradiva Gallery in Rome. He has subsequently had solo shows at Studio Soligo in Rome, Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts in Spoleto in 2012, Palazzo Ca Bonvicini in Venice in 2013, and at the Officina delle Zattere in Venice in 2014. His works have also been shown in many international exhibitions, including the XIV Rome Quadriennale and the “Hommage à Vlado Gotovac” second exhibition at the Klovicevi Dvori Gallery in Zagreb.
The “Painting of a Young Man” is one of several 1980s figurative works by Campanella painted before he began his abstractions in the 1990s.