Chiara Capellini is an Italian artist living and working in Milan. Her work is focused on void, meditation, and the investigation of vision as a physical and inner phenomenon. The subject represented is the transition between the mental image and its dissolution towards something else. Not a representation or resemblance of something. But a moment of mental transition of an idea. Between seeing something and seeing nothing.
"I believe that questions about nothing are also questions about everything. I aim for the minimum because it wouldn't make sense to create anything less."
Capellini's paintings are usually realised through a process of material subtraction, striving to create a depth of vision with minimal elements. She believes that removing in painting allows for better seeing, for conceptualising, in order to reach the core of the concept.
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Untitled I, 2023acrylic on canvas250cm x 200cm (79" x 99") -
Untitled II, 2023Acrylic on canvas200cm x 150cm (79" x 59")
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Untitled III, 2023Acrylic on canvas200cm x 150cm (79" x 59")
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Untitled IV, 2022Acrylic on canvas70cm x 60cm
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Untitled IV, 2022acrylic on canvas70cm x 50cm (28" x 20")
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Untitled V, 2022Acrylic on canvas70cm x 60cm
Chiara Capellini studied at Naba in Milan, where she lives and works. Her latest painting installation Landscape of Thoughts was presented at 'TERRA', a multidisciplinary site-specific exhibition hosted in the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage vineyards in Burgundy, France, during PARIS+ 2023. Capellini has exhibited alongside celebrated female artists of the last 100 years, such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lee Bul, Leonora Carrington, Judy Chicago, Françoise Gilot, Tamara de Lempicka and Cindy Sherman. Her work has been exhibited in Italian and international museums and galleries.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2024 |
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'The elephant and the blind men. The matter of the void.' Rupture art bookstore, Zuecca Project Space, Venice, Italy. |
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2023 |
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'La forma delle idee' - Stazione Leopolda, Firenze, Italy. |
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'Dialogo in silenzio' - Chiesa San Bernardino, Zuecca Projects Milano, Italy. |
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2014 |
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'Waste Collection #1 #2 #3'. Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy. |
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2011 |
'Akasha'. ROJO artspace, Milan, Italy. |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2023 |
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'TERRA', curated by Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond, Beaune, France. |
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Femme f(r)iction -Academy Mansion, C1760 gallery & Zuecca Projects Venice, New York, USA. |
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2021 |
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This is Arcade', London, UK. |
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2015 |
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'Waste Collection #2', Italian Institute of Culture in Stockolm, Sweden. |
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'004'. Think cattleya, curated by Rossella Farinotti, Milano, Italy. |
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'Arte in Sarpi', Via Sarpi, curated by Rossella Farinotti, Milano, Italy. |
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| 2012 |
'Big size art', Drips, Palazzo Isimbardi, Milano, Italy. |
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| 2011 |
'Ri-generazioni'. Percorsi e Padiglioni Regionali della 54° Esposizione Biennale d'Arte di Venezia, Italy. |
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'La Brilla', Massarosa, Italy. |
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Big size art, Idroscalo, Milan, Italy. |
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| 2010 |
Big size art, Mercato Floricolo, Milano, Italy. |
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'Degenerazioni', Gestalt gallery, Massarosa (LU), Italy. |
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'3', Pure Evil Gallery, Project Space, London, UK. |
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| 2008 |
'Why not', Brandstorming gallery, Milano, Italy. |
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| 2007 |
Street Up. fuori Biennale di Venezia - Venezia, Italy, Curated by Alessandro Riva. |
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Street Up. Byblos art gallery, Verona, Italy, Curated by Alessandro Riva. |
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'Street art, Sweet art', P.A.C. Padiglione d'arte contemporanea, Milano, Italy. Curated by Alessandro Riva. |
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
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2021 |
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Selected COMBAT PRIZE - painting. |
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2020 |
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Via Farini- Milano, Italy. Curated by Giulio Verago. |
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2019 |
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Bocs art - Cosenza, Italy. Curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio. |