Paolo Capovillla - Untitled

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

The work has a marked expressionist vocation, which tends to emphasize the expression of emotions. Expressionist art seeks to proclaim its moods to the world and flaunt them with passion. Formally, this translates into a summary rendering of the figures, through a very nervous and animated line, as well as the use of a violent color palette. These characteristics are found in the historical avant-garde movements of expressionism: Fauvism and the Die Brucke movement in Germany.

Gianpaolo Capovilla, known as Paolo, was born in Padua in 1945 and passed away in 1997. He was a painter, a director, and an actor. His studies focused on film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. In 1968, he directed the film Tabula Rasa. In 1969, he starred in Bernardo Bertolucci's Partner and in Roberto Rossellini's television miniseries Acts of the Apostles. He began painting in 1975. In 1976, he moved to the Ippolito Nievo Student Residence, where he was able to set up his own studio.

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