Nicola Capone

Don Nicola Capone

Born on January 2, 1958 in Gravina di Puglia, Italy.

Benedictine priest and monk from Oliveto (Monte Oliveto Maggiore)

He lived in various monasteries: Rome-Florence-Brescia-London-Ferrara.

He currently resides in Matera in the Monastery at the Sanctuary of Picciano.

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He studied at the Magistral Institute of Matera, and Theology at Monte Oliveto Maggiore. After the Priestly Ordination he attended the studio of Don Ambrogio Fumagalli and the free school of nude in Rome. Later he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He lived for 20 years at the San Nicola Abbey in Rodengo-Saiano in Franciacorta, where in addition to painting, he restored books and ancient prints in the paper restoration laboratory

Of the Abbey.

The critic Alberto Chiappani said of my works:

Nicola Capone's artistic language, predominantly sign, is composed without structural pre-ordering and, meaning and signifier are summarized in the unknown and in sensation. In fact, an inductive logic of the compositions is not recognized, at least according to the stigmatized custom of the content reading of the figurative references, capable of leading back to reasoning data. What is necessary to grasp is perhaps precisely the will to cancel any possible reference to the "acknown", to entrust the solution and the consequent perception to an essential, consequential, primary sign in its development, therefore not an exercise of compositional pre-ordering but of immediacy, of spontaneous gestures, of inner naturalness.

In this ideative modality where playful graphics and aesthetic sense, external to any constraint, coexist according to an indeterminate mechanism of taste, the "nonsense" of Nicola Capone's poetics seems to be summarized globally, with indefinable semble, in front of which the fruitiotive interlocutor becomes the protagonist, fully realizing the formulation of "seeing as a creative act".

It could be recognized in this faint trace of perceptive versatility, in this "m...