Paolo Schiavocampo

The exhibition celebrates Paolo Schiavocampo, sculptor e painter one of the most original and independent artists in Italian artistic practice of the second Twentieth century. Born in Palermo in 1924 and died in Milan In 2022, the artist looked back on almost a century of history, having played an active part in the cultural developments of the post-war period.

Trained as architect and having completed his training at Academies of Fine Art by Venice with Bruno Saetti and of Milan with Giacomo Manzù, he has developed a keen eye for structure and volume. Throughout his career at Rome is approaching Form 1, whilst in Milan get in touch with the Existential realism, l'Informal and figures such as Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni e Nanni Valentini. Following the significant journey to New York in 1964, he rediscovered Salvatore Scarpitta and develops innovative collage.

The exhibition features over seventy works, including sculptures, paintings e drawings, from the earliest studies on factories and the working-class world of the 1940s right through to his later works, such as the sculptures in wood, iron, polyester, measures to public space a Gibellina and in the Fiumara d’Arte, right up to the iconic Tapestries. The exhibition itinerary highlights how the space represents a living subject to be organised, and the vacuum a fundamental structural element.