Ivan Cangelosi

My name is Ivan Cangelosi, I was born in Palermo where I studied foreign languages. Having returned to Italy after a brief experience in Great Britain, I graduated in Political Science in Padua. Historical, philosophical and social subjects have always fascinated me and the field of international relations and the United Nations were the natural career path. The "call" from art (the "Berufung" to use a German word that means "Vocation", "Being called to a duty", from which the term "Beruf", or "Profession" derives) came suddenly like a sort of "deja-vu", like something I had inside me buried and forgotten. It indeed often happens in life, that we forget, along the way, about the small/big passions or talents we had in childhood or youth; the good news is that it is they, those passions and talents, that do not forget about us and if they find the right moment, they come back to life suddenly and in a powerful way.
This is what happened with art, and in particular with this particular way of making art. It happened that one day, reading a page of "Crime and Punishment", I imagined Dostoevskji writing those same lines with pen and inkwell. I imagined his gesture, his pauses for reflection, his doubts and finally his satisfaction. And...

Advanced Degree in Political Science

2010 - Vienna "Art in letters, colors and forms"
2011 - Vienna "Painting with the colors of words" (Exhibition 1)
2012 - Como "Si io fossi foco"
2013 - Milan "Dramatis Personae"
2013 - Ferrara "Dramatis Personae"
2014 - Palermo "Biennale d0arte contemporanea"
2015 - Bologna " Galleria Farini"
2015 - Vienna " Painting with the colors of words" (Exhibition 3)
2016 - Vienna " Painting with the colors of words" (Exhibition 4)
2017 - Vienna " Painting with the colors of words" (Exhibition 5)
2018 - Vienna " Painting with the colors of words" (Exhibition 6)
2019 - Vienna " Painting with the colors of words" (Exhibition 7)
2022 - Vienna " Painting with the colors of words" (Exhibition 8)