Kristine Snodgrass, Visual Arts Editor
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May 2022
Angela Caporaso
Angela Caporaso was born in 1962. A visual artist from Caserta (Italy), she began to take an interest in figurative arts in the eighties, exhibiting repeatedly both in Italy and abroad. Angela Caporaso's art has always been characterized by a constant research and experimentation.
Since her first exhibitions she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages. This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world. She has worked on the words of the main contemporary writers and has dedicated some of her exhibitions to Albert Camus, Emily Dickinson, Pier Vittorio Tondelli. Influenced by Pop Art, she has inserted in her works the typical comics “bubbles”, as well as advertising references, decontextualized and transformed into a proper artistic language. She has worked with unrecyclable waste material, humble and inert, which has acquired new sense and meaning thanks to the artist’s intervention. Angela Caporaso focusing on artists books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital format. Many of her works are part of both public and private collections.
Since her first exhibitions she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages. This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world. She has worked on the words of the main contemporary writers and has dedicated some of her exhibitions to Albert Camus, Emily Dickinson, Pier Vittorio Tondelli. Influenced by Pop Art, she has inserted in her works the typical comics “bubbles”, as well as advertising references, decontextualized and transformed into a proper artistic language. She has worked with unrecyclable waste material, humble and inert, which has acquired new sense and meaning thanks to the artist’s intervention. Angela Caporaso focusing on artists books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital format. Many of her works are part of both public and private collections.
Selected exhibitions
1999 : “Le mille Emily “ Solo Exhibition Homage to Emily Dickinson, with a presentation by Luigi Romolo Carrino. Limatola (BN) - Italy
2002 : “Tondelli Imperfetti” Solo Exhibition Homage to Pier Vittorio Tondelli - Tenax, Florence, with an interview with author by Marino Sinibaldi for Fahrenheit - Radio3
2007 : "Kauffmann 0.7...trash art" Solo Exhibition for The Bicentennial of Angelica Kauffmann's death - Palazzo Fazio, Capua (CE) . Catalogue by Associazione Anna Jervolino, Caserta - Italy
2008 : "Nuova Voce-La Fiera del levante adotta Telethon" Collective Exhibitions curated by Fondazione Giorgio Correggiari - Fiera del Levante di Bari - Italy
2012 : "Between the second and third millennium" retrospective (anthological) exhibition of Angela Caporaso - Bourbon Military Quarter, Casagiove (Ce ) - Italy
2013 : “Di Carta/Papermade” Collective Exhibitions of Artist's Book curated by Valeria Bertesina - Museo Civico Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio (VI), Italy.
2016 : “Verbal Glasses” Solo Exhibition of Visual Poetry - Frammenti d’Arte Monteverde Vecchio, Rome - Italy . Catalog published by Youcanprint - presentation by Maurizio Spatola (collaboration by Monica Olivieri).
2017 : “1cartolinaXmagritte” Collective Exhibition curated by Tania Sofia Lorandi - Oratorio di Santo Stefano, Casalmaggiore (CR ) - Italy
2018 : “Oggetto Libro / Book Object” Collective Exhibitions of Artist's Book curated by Susanna Vallebona - Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milano - Italy
2020 : “Lettere S.com.Poste” Collective Exhibitions curated by Duccio Scheggi - Michela Mascarucci - Galleria della Fondazione Il Bisonte, Florence - Italy
2020 : “IoTuNoi-Add&Return” Collective Exhibition of Artist's Book curated by Lamberto Caravita - Museo CABA - Dart Villa Verlicchi , Lavezzola (RA) - Italy
2021: “Alphabet in Decay" International Exhibition of Visual Poetry Beyond Language curated by Timglaset Editions - Etkbooks Gallery, Bern - Switzerland
1999 : “Le mille Emily “ Solo Exhibition Homage to Emily Dickinson, with a presentation by Luigi Romolo Carrino. Limatola (BN) - Italy
2002 : “Tondelli Imperfetti” Solo Exhibition Homage to Pier Vittorio Tondelli - Tenax, Florence, with an interview with author by Marino Sinibaldi for Fahrenheit - Radio3
2007 : "Kauffmann 0.7...trash art" Solo Exhibition for The Bicentennial of Angelica Kauffmann's death - Palazzo Fazio, Capua (CE) . Catalogue by Associazione Anna Jervolino, Caserta - Italy
2008 : "Nuova Voce-La Fiera del levante adotta Telethon" Collective Exhibitions curated by Fondazione Giorgio Correggiari - Fiera del Levante di Bari - Italy
2012 : "Between the second and third millennium" retrospective (anthological) exhibition of Angela Caporaso - Bourbon Military Quarter, Casagiove (Ce ) - Italy
2013 : “Di Carta/Papermade” Collective Exhibitions of Artist's Book curated by Valeria Bertesina - Museo Civico Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio (VI), Italy.
2016 : “Verbal Glasses” Solo Exhibition of Visual Poetry - Frammenti d’Arte Monteverde Vecchio, Rome - Italy . Catalog published by Youcanprint - presentation by Maurizio Spatola (collaboration by Monica Olivieri).
2017 : “1cartolinaXmagritte” Collective Exhibition curated by Tania Sofia Lorandi - Oratorio di Santo Stefano, Casalmaggiore (CR ) - Italy
2018 : “Oggetto Libro / Book Object” Collective Exhibitions of Artist's Book curated by Susanna Vallebona - Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milano - Italy
2020 : “Lettere S.com.Poste” Collective Exhibitions curated by Duccio Scheggi - Michela Mascarucci - Galleria della Fondazione Il Bisonte, Florence - Italy
2020 : “IoTuNoi-Add&Return” Collective Exhibition of Artist's Book curated by Lamberto Caravita - Museo CABA - Dart Villa Verlicchi , Lavezzola (RA) - Italy
2021: “Alphabet in Decay" International Exhibition of Visual Poetry Beyond Language curated by Timglaset Editions - Etkbooks Gallery, Bern - Switzerland
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2011 : Tra secondo e terzo millennio – Opere in catalogo di Angela Caporaso. Monographic catalogue - 50 pages - col. ill. - 20 x 30 cm - Ed. Amande. This publication presents a selection of works produced between 1993 and 2011. 2013 Le Printemps - artist’s book by Angela Caporaso ed. Amande, published in May 2013, centenary of the first performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps ((Paris – May 1913) printed in numbered edition in a limited printing of 25 copies signed by the artist and numbered from 1 to 25 . A literary contribution of Silvia Longo. 2014 : Angela Caporaso’s visual poetry chapbooks - Dan Warner's "This is Visual Poetry" series, USA. 2016 : “Occhiali verbali” published by Youcanprint – Italy; curated by Maurizio Spatola (collaboration by Monica Olivieri). 2021 “Sul fondo del bianco. 5 poete verbovisuali” Bertoni Editore - Italy ; preface by Stefano Taccone. The volume is edited by Giorgio Moio. 2022 : “The Relationships” Timglaset Editions - Malmö, Sweden ; "Il Dubbio" Gap Riot Press – Toronto, Canada http://www.angelacaporaso.com/ PAURE
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