Gastone Cecconello

Gastone Cecconello (Italy, 1942) is a prominent visual artist whose career spans more than six decades of continuous experimentation and a unique expressive language. Born into a humble family in Piedmont, he overcame personal and physical challenges to affirm himself as one of the most original figures of Italian contemporary art.
From the late 1960s onward, Cecconello developed a coherent and recognizable poetics in which geometry, texture, and color are in constant dialogue with memory and matter. His works often employ reclaimed and polymaterial media—iron, wood, stone, plaster, printed paper, sand, and pigments—transformed into rigorous sculptural and pictorial compositions. Central to his research are the “ominidi”, stylized faceless beings enclosed in boxes or serially repeated: a radical reflection on identity and the alienation of contemporary man, metaphors of a society that reduces and flattens individuality.
Throughout his long career, Cecconello has built relationships with fellow artists such as Romano Conversano and Guido Mosca, and has received prestigious awards including the Renzo Roncarlo Memorial Prize and the Giangiacomo Spadari National Prize, the latter awarded for a work on the theme “Theater – cinema… seduc...

Accademia di Belle Arti - Vercelli

2025

Ecomuseo di Salussola / Salussola - Salussola, Italia
2024

L'Amicizia di una vita / Auditorium Santa Chiara - Vercelli, Italia
2017

African Dream / Villa Piazzo - Pettinengo (BI), Italia
2016

Retouches / Museo dell'oro e della pietra - Salusssola (BI), Italia
2015

Artisti in Villa / Villa Borletti - Origgio (VA), Italia
2012

Alle origini del mito / Sedi varie - Biella-Vercelli, Italia
2010

Mostra personale / M.A.D. n. 10 - Brescia, Italia
2006

Ame & Matière / Maison de la Mer - Cavalaire sur Mer, Francia
2004

Mostra personale / Galleria Immagina di Stile - Brescia, Italia
2003

Mostra personale / Museo d’Arte Moderna - Gazoldo degli Ippoliti, Italia
1999

Mostra personale / Galleria Effedue - Bergamo, Italia
1999

Mostra personale / Galleria Man Arte - Parigi, Francia
1997

Mostra personale / Kunst und Wein Galerie - Dusseldorf, Germania
1997

Mostra personale / Le Moulin de Ventabren Gallery - Ventabren, Francia
1997

Mostra personale / Salle Privée Art - Malindi, Kenya
1996

Mostra personale / Black Gallery - Verona, Italia
1996

Mostra personale / Stadttheater Fürth - Fürth, Germania
1995

Mostra personale / EOS Arte Contemporanea - Milano, Italia
1992

Mostra personale / Domus Jani - Illasi, Italia
1992

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