Terracotta sculpture by Carmelo Cappello (Ragusa, 21 May 1912 – Milan, 21 December 1996) signed and dated 1949.
CARMELO CAPPELLO (Ragusa 1912 – Milan 1996) He attended the Comiso School of Art. Trained at a very young age in Ettore Colla’s studio, he moved to Milan in the 30th. Thanks to a scholarship he follows the courses of Marino Marini at the Istituto Superiore di Monza. In 37 he made his debut as a sculptor and the following year he held his first solo show at the Bragaglia Gallery in Rome. In 41 he consolidated his friendship with Giò Ponti, which later became a close collaboration. He has participated numerous times in the Venice Biennale, the Rome Quadriennale and the Milan Triennale. In 59 he was invited to Documenta 2 in Kassel. After the first figurative phase, struck by Moore’s modern European sculpture, he passes from Tatlin’s Russian Constructivism to the discoveries of the filtering space of Pevsner, Brancusi and Gabo: these are the cultural matrices, in his artistic iter, of his original declination of pure linear rhythms and volumetric that constitute the fulcrum of his mature language. Constant components of its structures are the curve, linked in the circle or marked in the ellipsis, in a rigorous equilibrium of two-dimensional relationships. In Ragusa, in 94, the Civic Collection Cappello was inaugurated, the result of the donation of 15 sculptures and 20 graphic works that formed the starting point of the Museum dedicated to him in 55. Good production of multiples and graphics of his maturity.
Period: 1949
Measurements: H 35 x W 26 x D 20 cm
