Francesco Capello

BIOGRAPHY

Francesco Capello was born in Chivasso (TO) on 11 February, 1944.
After the maturità artistica ( Advanced Level or high school graduation, with specialization in Art), he graduated at the Academy of Belles Arts in Turin, where he gained a diploma and was awarded the prize reserved for the best students.

From 1970 to1973 he was a teacher of ‘Painting Disciplines’ at the Artistic High School “Arturo Martini” in Savona and, until 1994, at the Primo Liceo Artistico (Primo Artistic High School) in Turin. He was always interested in the painting of images and after various explorations in the figurative field, in the early seventies he completely rethought his realistic technique, in order to make his treatment of subjects related to contemporary society more penetrating.
In this decade he unconsciously developed his work in the direction of American Hyper-realism.

His first one-man show was in 1967 at the Galleria Civica Palazzo Centori, Vercelli, after which numerous one-man and collective exhibitions made him known in Italy and abroad. After a series of prestigious exhibitions in the United States and Europe, in 1999 he held a one-man show in the Hall of the Columns in the Valentino Castle in Turin, at one time...

Diploma Primo Liceo Artistico Statale di Torino (Italy)
Diploma di Laurea all'Accademia "Albertina" di Belle Arti di Torino (Italy)

Selected Solo Exhibition
1967 Galleria Civica Palazzo Centori, Vercelli
1968 Galleria S.Matteo, Genova
1982 Galleria Ideogramma, Torino
1985 Galleria S.Giorgio, Portofino
1988 Venice Gallery, Boca Raton (Florida)
1988 Galleria Fogliato, Torino
1989 P.H. Gallery, Torino
1990 Galleria Perazzone, Biella
1991 Galleria Biasutti, Torino
1991 Centro Culturale S.Michele - Milano
1992 Istitut Culturel Italien, Lyon
1993 Gallerie Hermes, Lyon
1996 Gallerie Lorelei, Bruxelles
1997 Gallerie Liliane - Françoise, Parigi
1998 Galleria Davico, Torino
2000 Fogola Galleria Dantesca – Torino
2000 Galerie Lorelei, Bruxelles
2002 "Oltre lo sguardo", Galleria Factory Fine Art – Modena
2007 "On the road" Galleria 44 – Torino
2009/2010 “Metropiolis, le città reali e immaginarie” (personale a due) Galleria 44 – Torino
2012 "Francesco Capello, opere recenti", Fogola Galleria Dantesca - Torino

Selected Group Exibitions
1972 Maestri di grafica contemporanea, Galleria Kursaal, Varazze
1977 Galleria De Castro, Oristano
1984 Salon National des Galeries d’Arts, Montreal
1985 Art Expo, Los Angeles
1985 Huit Peinters Realistes, Galleria La Française, Montreal
1985 Italianscultureel Institut, Amsterdam
1987 Stockolm Art-Fair, Stoccolma...