Sergio Cappellini Biography
Sergio Capellini was born on 19 December 1942 in Bologna. In 1962 he moved to Rome where he made his first attempts to "make art". He visited museums and galleries, appreciating the works of Medardo Rosso, Manzù, Marini, Greco and Fazzini. As a self-taught artist, he began modeling with clay and wax. His favorite materials were bronze, marble and wood. His sculpture is predominantly figurative, but approaches each subject differently. His female figures are ethereal, launched in harmonious and vibrant movements. The male figures are full of sadness, stunned, desperate and some are frozen in the last moments of their lives. Mythical animals are often depicted in an enchanted, transcendental aura in motion which is the dominant motif. His religious-themed figures embody a message of peace, faith and love. In 1978 he moved to Verona with his wife Gabriella and children Simona and Alessandro, where he lived until 1985. He then moved to the countryside, first to Castel d'Azzano and then to Isolalta di Vigasio, where he still lives and works. Capellini has created commissioned works that can be found in public and private squares, buildings and sacred places. He has held solo and group exhibitions in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, the United States, Canada and Japan. In Japan you can admire one of his most significant works of the 1970s "Even the Hero Dies" at the Hacone Open Air Museum in Hacone (Tokyo), together with the most renowned sculptors of the 20th century. In 2005 the sculpture "E io non morirò - Studio n.2" was placed in the Generations Italiane del Novecento Collection curated by Giorgio Di Genova at the G. Bargellini Art Museum of Pieve Cento (Ferrara) and was placed in diocesan civic museum center of Sulmona. In 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him a member of the Pontifical Honorary Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosos of the Pantheon.
