Angelo Azzellini

Angelo Azzellini was born in Rodi Garganico (Italy) in 1961. He moved to Turin at the age of 14, where he studied at the Artistic College, and then moved to Urbino, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He later spent some time of his short life in the US, Germany, UK and China, before settling in Milan and finally in Rome, where he passes away prematurely at the age of 34.

Azzellini considered painting to be a form of meditation, a way of being in a state of complete silence where the full awareness of what life offers at that very moment expands into a limitless state of love and innocence.

With a solid foundation of study of drawing, he progressively plunged into a gestural abstraction that instills energy and vigour to his paintings with a reference to early Abstract Expressionism. In his paintings, mostly large format, the strength and intensity of his feelings are revealed through colour and pictorial texture, with the roughness and density typical of acrylics.

Exhibitions

1980 – Group Show, “Le Indipendenze”, Galleria Il Canale di Venezia, Venice.
1983 – Group Show, “Centro San Fedele”, Milan.
1984 – Group Show, “Micro-Macrocosmo”, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino.
1986 – Group Show, Centro Bertold Brecht, Milan.
1988 – Solo Show, G&R Sudler & Hennesy, Milan.
1991 – Solo Show, Galleria Studio ’90, Matera.
1992 – Solo Show, Galleria Studio 52, Altamura.
1994 – Group Show, “Geografia dell’Altrove Spiritualità dell’Arte Astratta”, Pinacoteca Comunale, Terni.
2001 – Solo Show, Centro Studi Torre di Nebbia, Altamura.
2019 – Solo Show, ROAD Rodi Art District, Rodi Garganico.
2021 – Group Show, “The Walkaround Gallery”, eUrban, Rome.
2022 – Solo Show, “Angelo Azzellini. Puer Apuliae 1961-1995”, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome.