Bruno Ceccobelli biography

Bruno Ceccobelli is an Italian painter and sculptor. He was born on 2 September 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 bases of abstract art. His artistic research which starts from abstractionism and shares some characteristics of Arte Povera , fits into the more general context of the return to painting , which distinguishes artists of his generation. However, through the study of theosophy, alchemy and oriental philosophies, such as Zen and Taoism, Bruno Ceccobelli arrives at his own spiritual and sacral symbolism which differentiates him from the artistic currents mentioned above.
From the second half of the Seventies, together with Piero Pizzi Cannella, Gianni Dessì, Nunzio Di Stefano, Domenico Bianchi, Giuseppe Gallo, settle in the former Cerere pasta factory, in the San Lorenzo district of Rome. This group of young artists soon became known as 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 in the Palazzo Comunale di Albach, in Austria and, two years later, held his first solo show at the Galleria Spazio Alternativo di Rome.
In 1979 the artist exhibited at the Festival of Italian Culture in Belgrade and, subsequently, at some group exhibitions in France, Germany and Croatia. In particular, from Yvon Lambert to Paris exhibits the work Morpheus, a work divided into different elements cohesive by a symbolic connection.
In 1984 he participated in the exhibition Ateliers, curated by the critic Achille Bonito Oliva, in which the artists of the former Cerere pasta factory opened their studios to the public. This collective exhibition contributes 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 took part in the Quadrennial of Rome and in 1999 he took part in the Progetto Arte Roma competition and won 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.