Bruno Ceccobelli biography

Bruno Ceccobelli is an Italian painter and sculptor. He was born on September 2, 1952, in Montecastello di Vibio, near Todi. He moved to Rome and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a student of Toti Scialoja, from whom he learned the theoretical and practical foundations of abstract art. His artistic research, which starts from abstractionism and shares some characteristics of Arte Povera, fits into the broader context of the return to painting that distinguishes the artists of his generation. However, through the study of theosophy, alchemy, and Eastern philosophies such as Zen and Taoism, Bruno Ceccobelli arrives at his own spiritual and sacred symbolism that sets him apart from the aforementioned artistic movements."
From the second half of the Seventies, together with Piero Pizzi Cannella, Gianni Dessì, Nunzio Di Stefano, Domenico Bianchi, Giuseppe Gallo, he settled in the ex-pastificio Cerere, in the San Lorenzo district of Rome. This group of young artists soon became known as the Nuova Scuola Romana or Gruppo di San Lorenzo or Officina San Lorenzo.
In 1975, Bruno Ceccobelli exhibited for the first time in a group show at the Palazzo Comunale di Albach in Austria, and two years later, held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Spazio Alternativo in Rome.
In 1979, the artist exhibited at the Festival of Italian Culture in Belgrade and subsequently at several group exhibitions in France, Germany, and Croatia. In particular, at Yvon Lambert in Paris, he exhibited the artwork Morpheus, a piece composed of different elements united by a symbolic connection.
In 1984, he participated in the exhibition Ateliers, curated by the critic Achille Bonito Oliva, where the artists of the former Cerere pasta factory opened their studios to the public. This collective exhibition contributed to the affirmation of the San Lorenzo Group on the international art scene. In the same year, Bruno Ceccobelli was invited to the Venice Biennale, with works exhibited in the Aperto '84 section. In 1986, he was invited for the second time to the Venice Biennale, with a room in the Art and Alchemy section curated by Arturo Schwarz.
The eighties and nineties saw him engaged in numerous national and international exhibitions. In 1996, he participated in the Quadriennale di Roma and in 1999 he took part in the Progetto Arte Roma competition, winning it with the creation of a large mosaic for the decoration of the EUR Fermi station of the Rome metro.
Bruno Ceccobelli currently lives and works in Montemolino near Todi.