Franco Scepi

Last updated

Franco Scepi (born 1941 in Piacenza, Italy) is an Italian artist, graphic designer and film director.

Scepi attended the Brera Academy in Milan where he was a student of Gianfilippo Usellini. [1] After a spell like set designer at La Scala Theatre in Milan, he replaced Fortunato Depero as Art Director at Campari, [2] where he worked for over ten years.

He directed the films Can Cannes (1980) and Packaging (1982). [3]

In 1999, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Nobel Peace Laureates added their signatures to Scepi's work Man for Peace. [4] Originally created in 1977 for the poster of the Andrzej Wajda film Man of Marble , Man for Peace was inspired by Karol Wojtyła as a symbol that foresaw the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the support of the MAGI Museum in Bologna, several editions of the monument have been subsequently acquired by town municipalities and art galleries. [5]

Bibliography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Franco Fontana</span> Italian photographer

Franco Fontana is an Italian photographer. He is best known for his abstract colour landscapes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bruno Munari</span> Italian artist and designer (1907–1998)

Bruno Munari was "one of the greatest actors of 20th-century art, design and graphics". He was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts in modernism, futurism, and concrete art, and in non-visual arts with his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning, and creativity. On the utility of art, Munari once said, "Art shall not be separated from life: things that are good to look at, and bad to be used, should not exist".

The Man of Peace is an award conceptualized in 1999 by the annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome. The purpose of the award is to recognize individuals who "from personalities from the world of culture and entertainment who have stood up for human rights and for the spread of the principles of Peace and Solidarity in the world, made an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace".

Gianfranco Goberti was an Italian painter.

Felipe Cardeña is a street artist, known for floral patterns, pop art figures and modern collages, many of which are aimed at challenging consumer society.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Luigi Malice</span> Italian painter

Luigi Malice is an Italian abstract artist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gretta Sarfaty</span>

Gretta Sarfaty, born Alegre Sarfaty, is also known as Gretta Grzywacz and Greta Sarfaty Marchant, also simply as Gretta. is a painter, photographer and multimedia artist who earned international acclaim in the 1970s, from her artistic works related to Body art and Feminism. Born in Greece, in 1947, she moved with her family to São Paulo in 1954, being naturalized as Brazilian.

Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan is a Serbian painter and conceptual artist. He lives and works in Milan and Belgrade.

Sergio Zanni is an Italian painter and sculptor. After obtaining the Diploma at the Institute of Arts 'Dosso Dossi' in Ferrara, Italy, he graduated from the Academy of Arts in Bologna. He taught in the Institute of Arts 'Dosso Dossi' until 1995. For his research in sculpturing he utilized backed clay and, successively, lighter material for sculptures of large dimensions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antonio Papasso</span> Italian painter and engraver

Antonio Papasso is an Italian painter and engraver.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gillo Dorfles</span> Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher (1910–2018)

Angelo Eugenio "Gillo" Dorfles was an Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Agenore Fabbri</span> Italian sculptor

Agenore Fabbri was an Italian sculptor and painter. He moved between a rigorous expressionism and experimental informalism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Agostino Bonalumi</span> Italian painter

Agostino Bonalumi was an Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor.

Grazia Varisco is an Italian visual artist and designer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yumi Karasumaru</span> Japanese artist

Yumi Karasumaru is a Japanese artist. She lives and works in Bologna, Italy, and Kawanishi, Japan.

Walter Noetico is an Italian painter, sculptor, and writer. He is the founder of two art movements: Indimensionalism and Neoilluminism. He is also the inventor of new artistic techniques and of the new Alphabet, Neoilluminist Alphabet, in which every letter has a symbol of a woman and a man.

Giuseppe Biagi is an Italian painter and member of the Metacosa Movement.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alik Cavaliere</span> Italian sculptor (1926–1998)

Alik Cavaliere (1926–1998) was an Italian sculptor. He spent his life researching the meaning of life, freedom, nature, and history. An atheist and libertarian, he didn't believe in any preconceived, final structure of society, the environment, or the universe. Nor did he follow any art movements of his time, although he knew all of them and was temporarily influenced by some. He made his own way, narrating his perceptions with witty irony, through sculptures made up of a wide range of materials, disposed in a chaotic labyrinth which visitors are forced to traverse without being able to find a definitive point of view.

Augusto Orazio Vittorio Garau was an Italian artist, theorist of color, and professor. Garau took part in the Concrete art Movement (MAC).

Lea Vergine, born Lea Buoncristiano, was an Italian art critic, essayist and curator.

References

  1. "FRANCO SCEPI LA BIOGRAFIA - Facebook". www.facebook.com.
  2. "Campari: arte da bere. In un sorso - GALLERY". Oggi - Cucina.
  3. Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto (2000). Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gremese Editore. p. 107. ISBN   88-7742-423-0 . Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  4. Cronica ONU. United Nations Publications. 2003. p. 76. ISBN   970-661-225-4 . Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  5. "MAGI '900 MUSEUM - The man of peace by Franco Scepi".