Rome, at the Carlo Bilotti Museum, Paolo Di Capua's exhibition on the last 15 years of his work

The Carlo Bilotti Museum in Rome is hosting from May 9 to Sept. 15, 2024, Paolo Di Capua ’s exhibition entitled Natura Umana, a selection of sculpture works summarizing a span of 15 years of activity. Linked to each other, though in turn independent, with reflections on “human nature”-as the title states-lived memory and the perception of life’s journey, the sculptures on display explore individual motions and states of mind in relation to contemporary living. The exhibition is promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Cultura, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali and curated by Mario de Candia. Organizational support and museum services by Zètema Progetto Cultura.

Paolo Di Capua’s sculptures reflect the artist’s predisposition toward a constant search for the essence of “human nature,” understood as a synthesis of harmony and contrasts. The material used is almost constantly wood, with rare exceptions in stone and metal. Already since the late 1980s one can observe in the works the further choice to the renunciation of color, that is, the exclusive use of black and white (acrylics), possibly leaving only the color of natural wood in view.

Paolo Di Capua’s working process proceeds “by way of levare.” The material is etched with sharp, often deep, always and obvious cuts, sometimes violent, sometimes delicately hinted, that draw the form allowing his sculpture to keep itself always in balance, standing, standing, as it was conceived. A form that is still intact, “primitive” in the noblest sense that can be given to the word. This is why Paolo Di Capua’s works occupy space positively, with determination and with fullness; they are concrete and at the same time light; they are purified and liberated masses above a kind of ever-present “emptiness.”

The first room, the Project Room, displays two large drawings on panel titled Human Absence with reference to the period 2019/21 and the volume work Come fosse casa vostra 2022, which among other things nods to the exhibition activity Di Capua is hosting at his Hyunnart Studio. The structure presents themes in part already developed by the artist and in others to be developed, and can be viewed both from the outside and the inside. In the hallway is presented the series I put white on white 2018, which stands for I have written in clear letters; it will be up to the viewer to be able to read through the shadows.

In the three succeeding rooms are exhibited the very recent detections Interior Reflections and the installation + of 1 Moon x Vault on the themes of fickleness and overturning. The latter will require the active participation of the audience, called upon to “modify” the composition by moving the pieces that make it up. Next we find a relief from the series “Human Nature” 2018, the two projecting structures Cozy Shield 2005 and Tension of the Arch 2005. Concluding the exhibition we find two torn pages 2024, the diptych Other Perspectives 2018 and two works from the series Stabbed soul 2007. Concluding the exhibition is the wood and stone model Abandoned Cathedral 2010.

The exhibition will be accompanied by the catalog Paolo Di Capua. Human Nature with texts by Mario de Candia, Carlo Alberto Bucci, and Paolo Di Capua.

Paolo Di Capua was born in Rome in 1957. In 1985 he graduated from theAcademy of Fine Arts in Rome. He was a student of Sculptor Lorenzo Guerrini and Art Historian Lorenza Trucchi. In 1992 he received his PhD in Visual Arts in Spain from the Faculty of Fine Arts atLa Laguna University, Canary Islands, Spain.

Her last solo exhibition Natura Umana was held at theItalian Cultural Institute in Rabat, Morocco, 2019/20. The video me, shot in his own studio, was screened in public in April 2022, at the venue “CasaDante” in Rome, in October of the same year a at the Baratta Library in Mantua and in January 2023 at theEspronceda Institute of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, Spain.

He recently published the two artist’s books Signs of Vers e and Signs with Verse, which are on display in Los Angeles at Roswell Space as part of the exhibition Sheets (Leaves).

For all information, you can visit the official website of the Carlo Bilotti Museum. To learn more about the artist, you can find his official website here.

Rome, at the Carlo Bilotti Museum, Paolo Di Capua's exhibition on the last 15 years of his work

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