CAPOGROSSI Guiseppe

(1900-1972)

Capogrossi subsequently became one of the main exponents of Italian informal art, together with Lucio Fontana and Alberto Burri. Capogrossi participated in the Premio Bergamo in 1939, 1940 and 1942, and in exhibitions such as the first edition of Documenta in Kassel(1955) and the third and fifth Sao Paulo Art Biennal in 1955 and 1957.

In 2012, his work was the subject of a retrospective at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection In Venice.