ITALIAN ARTIST, US RESIDENT DARIO CAMPANILE EXPOSITION IN EUROPE AFTER 40 YEARS
Vista Palace Hotel, Monte Carlo – August 2014 – Italian Artist Dario Campanile is thrilled to announce that he is having his biggest one man exposition in Europe at the Vista Palace Hotel in Monte Carlo, September 25th, 2014, since his departure to the United States from Rome over 40 years ago.
Self-taught, Dario began painting in oil at the age of 14 intensively studying realism. Before the age of 20, Campanile was successfully selling in Trompe l’oeil style, showing successfully at Galleria Esedera in Rome. He not only attracted the attention of international collectors but also well-known master painters. The creator of the metaphysical art movement Giorgio DeChirico, shared his invaluable techniques with Dario supporting his passion for realism. Upon being shown some of Dario’s work, surrealist master Salvador Dali invited him to his home for an exchange of ideas. “Dali was really impressed with my surrealist work,” Dario remembers. “Maybe he was pulling my leg a little, but he decided to call me, ‘The Roman Master.’”
After leaving Europe in 1973 to attend his first one-man show in Beverly Hills, CA, Dario was inspired to stay in the US to pursue his artistic career. Campanile has enjoyed a rich career in artistic expression. Art critics have tried to find a term that defines Campanile’s work: classicism, realism, neo-realism, abstract expressionism, and real-surrealism.
Campanile has reveled in many achievements such as being commissioned to paint the famed 75th Anniversary Paramount Pictures Logo. He was chosen to travel to India to meet, photograph and paint a portrait of the Dalai Lama for the “Missing Peace” movement. In 2013 Dario was given the title of Associate Living Master by the Art Renewal Center in recognition of his success of painting realism for over 50 years.
In his upcoming exposition in Monte Carlo, Campanile will be focusing mostly on his expressive abstract paintings that started in the 1980’s.
Campanile says, “Working in abstract for me is the most direct and pure form of artistic expression coming from my unconscious. The challenge is to be able to trust and surrender and allow the channel of creativity to come through me, like an open vessel. This process most of the time is very daring because I want to make sure that the pure essence of child-like energy comes through the body and mind of the adult.”
For the past few months, Campanile has been painting in the South of France, an area in which he is profoundly inspired by. “My main goal,” says the artist “is to be able to express my true soul and continue my journey by taking risks and always allowing myself to explore new visions.”
Campanile has been a resident of Maui, Hawaii for the past 10 years and for 30 years before in California. His work is shown in many galleries in the US.