Romano Campagnoli Biography
Romano Campagnoli was born in Turin in 1934. He attended the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, where he studied with the maestro Italo Cremona. Later, he returns to the Academy as a teacher. As a painter, he dedicates himself to the theme of natural elements: water, fire, earth, air, light and colour. In his work, the paintings present large central white spaces with a strong light, but also a perceptive condition of silence and absence of light, with backgrounds marked by clear chiaroscuro contrasts. As an engraver he uses a wide selection of mixed techniques, from drypoint to etching and aquatint, experimenting on plexiglass plates and zinc matrices. Campagnoli addresses a wide range of themes in both his pictorial and graphic work, as though unitary, they are in fact autonomous. Since 1952, he has exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions in Italian and foreign galleries and has participated in important collective exhibitions at a national and international level. Together with other members of the Piedmontese artistic scene, Campagnoli frequents and gets to know the Riviera di Ponente, in particular Alassio, chosen as a place of inspiration for his work.
In the 1990s, he held several anthological exhibitions, including at the Maison des Arts et Loisirs of Thonon-Evian in France and at the Sala Bolaffi, curated by the Piedmont Region. In these exhibitions, he presented over 70 works, including large paintings, engravings and sculptures, which outline fundamental themes in his work characterized by an incisive sign and a harmonious compositional structure.
