Biography Bruno Ceccobelli

Bruno Ceccobelli was born in Montecastello di Vibio (Todi-Perugia) on the 2nd of
September 1952.
He feels deep gratitude for his teacher Toty Scaloia, informal abstract artist, with whom he
graduates in scenic design at the “Accademy of fine arts” in Rome.
Ceccobelli loves and studies artists such as Malevich, Kandiskij, Klee, De Chirico,
Brancusi, Beuys, Mirò, Dalì, Tapies, Magritte, and he completes his eclectic juvenile
studies by learning about eastern philosophies.
From the mid seventies on, he is one of the young artists who occupies and restores the
old pasta factory “Cerere”, in the San Lorenzo neighborhood in Rome, a group of creative
artists later well-known under the term “Nuova Scuola Romana” or “Scuola di San
Lorenzo” or “Officina San. Lorenzo”. His research starts out as performative-conceptual,
reaching further on pictorial abstractions leading to a genuine spiritual symbolism.
In 1971 he takes part in his first group exhibition in Austria at the Europäisches Forum of
Alpbach.
1977 he has his first solo-exhibition at the “Spazio alternativo” Gallery in Roma. He
participates also in two group exhibitions at “La Stanza”.
1979 Festival of Italian Culture Belgrade
1980 “Biennale des Jeunes” Paris
1981 Ferranti Gallery Roma
1981 Lambert Paris
1983 Ala New York
1984 “Ateliers”
1984-1986 Biennale in Venice “Aperto 84” and “Arts and alchemy”
1985 New York Sperone Westwater
1988 New York Shainman Gallery and Caffè Florian Venice
1989 London Mayor Rowan Gallery and Barcelona Carstens
1993 Montreal
1994 Senegal Dakar
1996 “Quadriennale di Roma”
1999 Guastalla Gallery Livorno and Bilbao Luis Borgus
2002 B.M.B. Gallery Amsterdam
2005 “Classico Eclettico” Archeological Museum of Villa Adriana Tivoli Roma
2006 “San Lorenzo” Villa Medici Roma
2007 “Longa Marcia post-temporale” Volume! Roma
2008 “Invasi” Fondazione Pastificio Cerere Roma
2009 “Attici unici” Attico Roma and “Natalis in Urbe” Basilica di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
Roma
2009 “Officina San Lorenzo” Mart Museum Rovereto and Limen 895 Roma
2010 “In carta sogni. Works on Paper 1980-2010” Pescara
2011 “Schöne Träume” Rovereto and Venice Biennale
2012 “Eroi d’Eros” Catania and then Argentina
2013 “Arte a Roma-Anni 70” Pala expo Roma