Luigi Campanelli Biography
Luigi Campanelli is an artist born in Acqualagna in 1943. After graduating as a building expert in 1964, he decided to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in Luigi Montanarini's painting course, where he graduated in 1968. From 1969 to 1997, Luigi Campanelli taught art in various artistic high schools, including the 1st artistic high school in Rome. His artistic research has always been very broad, moving from figuration to abstraction and from painting to sculpture. In 1968 he collaborated on the architectural project of the Italian pavilion at the Osaka Expo by the architects V. Caporioni and G. Mainini, taking care of the artistic part of the project. From 1979 to 1997, Luigi Campanelli had his studio in the former Pastificio Cerere, where he founded the "LABORATORIO 1n" with other artists and the film critic Domenico Giovannini, which became a multimedia space. In 1977 and 1979 he exhibited the two short stories "Il Carro del Sole" and "PSSS", together with a small group of poems "Daedalus and the Wind" and published the essay "Bibliographical Alchemy of a Construction Expert". In 1980, Luigi Campanelli was reported as the best artist by Nello Ponente, an art historian, and in 1992 by Barbara Rose, a New York art critic.
From 1981 to 1984, he created the cycle of works "SINOPIE", of which the poet Emilio Villa wrote an essay. In 1986, with the theorist of "Cultivated Painting" Italo Mussa, he founded the Ausoni Culture Center in the former Cerere pasta factory. During this time he created works for "New Metaphysical Dream" and exhibited in Europe and the United States. In 1988, he created the large stone sculpture "MERIDIANA" (205x205x300 cm) for Gamma International Spa in Rome. Since 1989, Luigi Campanelli began working on the concept of "neoplasticism", a contamination between painting and sculpture. In 1993 he founded and directed the Cultural Association "STUDIO APERTO" in the former Cerere pasta factory, a multimedia space for the promotion of young Italian art in Europe. From 2009 to 2014, he held the position of Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Acqualagna. Since 2015, he has been a councilor for the local Museum of Contemporary Art. Luigi Campanelli has participated in numerous personal exhibitions, including 1981 at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, 1987, 1989 and 1991 at the Shainman Gallery in New York and Washington, 1989 at the Mar Estrada Gallery in Madrid, 1996 for "Sinopie " at the Salone Dicastero Turismo della Repubblica di San Marino, in 2002 for "Daedalus" at the Abbey of San Vincenzo in Acqualagna (PU), in 2005 for "Sinopie" at the Abbondanza del Palazzo Pubblico in Cagli (PU), in 2008 for "Tandem" at the Galleria Hybridacontemporanea and Horty Lamiani Bettivo in Rome and in 2012 at the Galleria Arte in Centro in Bergamo. He also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Figurative Arts Exhibitions of Rome and Lazio in 1963, 1965, and 1967, "Lines of Artistic Research in Italy 1960/1980" at the Palazzo delle Exhibitions in Rome in 1981, "The New Metaphysical Dream" at the Shainman Gallery in 1986, "From Return to Order to the Call of Painting 1920/1987" at the Mathildenhohe Museum in Darmstadt in 1988 and "Italian Contemporary Prints" at the Kaosiung Museum of Fine Art Taiwan in 1996.
