Emiliano Capotorto

I was born in Ponte San Pietro, Bergamo Italy, where I live and work, December 27th 1970. I got closer to painting thanks to Gianfranco Bonetti, a famous artist, my teacher at Bergamo high school for art in the late eighties. I'm not interested in art as an intellectual game, an end in itself or like a sterile provocation or decoration.
My research is aimed to reach a personal sinthesis of the mark of artists like Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Degas, Giacometti, and Francis Bacon to achieve that "clinic realism" often quoted by the great irish artist.

Liceo Artistico Bergamo, Italy
Accademia di Belle Arti Brera, Milan, Italy

2013: -20 april - Biennale di Brescia, Sala Polivalente Beata Cristina, Calvisano, (BS) collective
2015: -11/19 settembre - “Corrispondenze” Sala Civica Ponte San Pietro (BG) personal
2016: British National Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, with ART NOW -2 oct/29 jan
2017, “PersonA” ANiSE’ Art Gallery, Bergamo, personal exhibition
2018: -3/18 feb “Social Network” Galleria Cento4, Bergamo, personal exhibition
2018: - "Immagini dall'esistenza" ANiSE’ Art Gallery, Bergamo May 13 - ?, collective exhibition