Paolo Campagnolo
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Paolo Campagnolo ​was born in Rome in 1965. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. From 1989 to 1995 he lived between London, Berlin and Rome and worked all around the world from Istanbul to Tokyo, from New York to Sydney. 
 
For many years Paolo has worked with Salvo Biondo and, as artistic duo CampagnoloBiondo, they developed a three-dimensional body of art. Three-dimensionality is inspired by contemporary Expanded Painting, meanwhile, the lesson of Lucio Fontana’s Spatialism comes out in the use of canvas as a material, no longer as support. This approach is also expressed by the creation of real "art boxes".
 
The numerous sculptured tapestries by the artist are the result of a choice of shape and form that takes the spectator on a fascinating journey.
The artist exploits the potential of two, apparently distant, materials such as metal and canvas, to create his supple and brilliant artworks. 
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The canvas becomes matter to be molded and the shaped matter changes according to the light and the interferences given by the environment that surrounds the artwork.

​Pigmented glues, gold leaves, silver leaves, metals are attacked by the action of acids for coloring. Case and action intertwine in the swirling search for a semantic language that finds in the reflected light the ideal “deus ex machina” to communicate with the observer who is overwhelmed and regenerated by the refraction and its lighting effects.
 
So, in the collection of portraits Paolo Campagnolo newly revises the idea of myth itself and of hero, often embodied by movie stars. Technique, myth, collective consciousness merge into this unexampled artistic expression. The sparkling light of the mythological image, of the faces that embody it and of the film that engraves it, can corrode over the time, without extinguishing its gilding.
PAOLO CAMPAGNOLO

NEW YORK 2022, "SHAPES OF LIGHT", TIME GALLERY
PARIS 2022, BULGARI STORE - PLACE VENDÔME
LONDON 2020, KENSINGTON CHELSEA ART WEEK, LE DAME ART GALLERY
NEW YORK 2020, VAN DER PLAS GALLERY
MIAMI BEACH 2019, DESIGN MIAMI 
MILANO 2019, MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2019, ARTBAHNHOF - NOLARTE
ROME 2017, BOSCOLO EXEDRA HOTEL (PALAZZO NAIADI)

BOGOTÁ 2017, "MEX CALL" (G. ORTEGA)
NEW YORK 2017, BULGARI STORE - 5TH AVENUE

PALERMO 2016, PALAZZO RISO - MUSEO REGIONALE D'ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA
MOSCOW 2016, BULGARI STORE
VENEZIA 2016, CONTINI ART FACTORY
VENEZIA 2015, FONDAZIONE CINI - IMAGO MUNDI, LUCIANO BENETTON COLLECTION
AMSTERDAM 2014, VANLOON GALLERIES
PADOVA 2013, VECCHIATO GALLERY
NEW YORK 2013
SEOUL 2012
ROME 2012, VILLA DOMINICI
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    • Van Loon Amsterdam 2014
    • Padova 2013
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