Giovanni Campus (Terranova Pausania - Italy, 1929). Lives and works in Milan.
Giovanni Campus' approach to art began in Genova, where he moved in 1948 to study and started to experiment with paint by using traditional techniques in innovative materials. His first exhibition had place in Rome, 1960, where he worked with the art critic Giuseppe Appella while attending the Free Academy of Fine Arts in Livorno. From 1968 he devoted himself entirely to the practice of art and moved to the Quartier delle Botteghe (artists' commune) in Sesto S. Giovanni and later to the Brera District in Milan.
Giovanni Campus' research is based on the ongoing phenomenal perception of the work in its extension and relationality with the spaces in which it is placed, giving rise to phases and developments of work on the determination before form, temporal coordinates and finally measure, with the aim of giving epistemologically perceptible indications of the ideas that move the poetic imagination.
Some of the most memorable exhibitions of the artist are: New Multiple Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery London, exhibition placed in seven English cities (1970); the participation in the Italian Pavilion curated by Palma Bucarelli for the 2nd International Triennial of Art India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (1971); Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (1976); Italian section of the Six British Printing Biennale, Bradford (1979); Experimenthal Art, Yamanashi Museum, Kofù, Japan (1986); Le vie della Costruzione. Pratiche della Scultura in Italia, curated by C. Cerritelli, Museo Civico Riva del Garda (1999); Arte in Italia negli Anni Settanta. Arte e Ambiente 1974 -1977, curated by L. Caramel, Erice (2002); Aspetti di Pura Pittura, curated by K. Wolbert, Museo della Permanente, Milan (2007); Viaggio in Italia, Neue Galerie Am Landesmuseum in Graz (2008); Percorsi dell'Arte Italiana exhibition at the VAF-Stiftung MART in Rovereto (2011). Among the most important museum acquisitions are: Museo Sperimentale, Arte Italiana degli anni sessanta, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, curated by L.Vinca Masini (1968); Galleria Comunale d'Arte, Palazzo Forti, Verona (2006) and Civico Museo d'Arte Moderna G. Fattori, Villa Mimbelli, Livorno, both curated by Giorgio Cortenova.
