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 works have been exhibited internationally, from Paris to the French Riviera, as well as in numerous solo shows curated by critics including Carlo Munari, Renzo Margonari and Lorella Giudici.
In recent years, Cecconello has focused on enclosing real objects within boxes, creatin...

Accademia di Belle Arti - Vercelli

Gastone Cecconello has held over a hundred exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

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
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