PHOTO BY STUDIO

PHOTO BY STUDIO

Since a student of the School of Art, in the mid-eighties, I started to attend the most important art galleries of my city. It was then that my artistic taste developed: I became familiar with the newest artistic practices and by meeting a few protagonists of those years contemporary scene, my technical and cultural background expanded.

My pictorial art was affected from the shapes of Alberto Burri’s “cellotex” and from Anish Kapoor’s spiritual chromatism.

During that period my paintings developed into large dimensions for a personal need of physically being within the space of representation and to control the organization of the shapes through pondered and conscious acts.

Over the years, in my paintings have entered pop elements, images, and scripts, always following an idea of “hyperrealistic abstractionism”.

My works of art currently require a smaller dimension because acts and shapes are getting more and more intimate and thoughtful.

Spiritual is the term I often refer to, when I talk about my art.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 “SALVATORE SERIO GALLERY” Naples, Italy
2014 performance “ARTISTS IN A SHOWCASE” Ramaglia Naples, Italy
2005 “GIRALDI GALLERY” Bologna, Italy
2001 “PALMIERI GALLERY” Busto Arsizio, Italy
1987 “DEHONIAN GALLERY” Naples, Italy

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 “Centometriquadri Arte Contemporanea” Santa Maria Capua Vetere (CE), Italy
2018 “PAN Palace of the Arts of Naples” Naples, Italy
2017 “SALVATORE SERIO GALLERY” Naples, Italy
2016 “DONNAREGINA MUSEUM” Naples, Italy
2012 “INTERNATIONL CENTER AND ARTIST’S BOOK” Gubbio, Italy
2006 “KARRIE CLAVTON GALLERY” London, England
2004 “MARRIOT HOTEL IRLAND” Dublin, Ireland
2003 “ORIEL GALLERY” Dublin, Ireland
2003 “DOUGLAS HIDE GALLERY” Dublin, Ireland
1992 “ANTONIO CANOVA GALLERY” Rome, Italy
1990 “MINOTAURO GALLERY” La Spezia, Italy

Some works by Massimo Campagna are on permanent display at the "Filippo Palizzi" State Institute of Arts in Naples, Italy.