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Il teatro di Marcello’ by Tonino Caputo.
In 1952 he was in Rome where he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture. His first collective exhibition dates back to 1956, thus beginning his five-year research in the field of the Informal .
In 1958 he took part in a group show in Rome together with Mimmo Rotella , Carla Accardi , Corrado Cagli , Giandomenico Gnoli , Gastone Novelli , … he knew and became friends with Piero Manzoni . From 1963-1965 we find him active in Paris, in 1965 he took part in the 9th Quadrennial of Rome [1] and from 1966-1968 he began working as a set designer starting with the theater and cinema of Carmelo Beneof which he will be a friend and his close collaborator.
The sets of Nostra Signora dei Turchiand Capricci [2] and all the playbills of Bene’s theatrical performances of this period are by him. From 1970 to 1973, Caputo made several trips to Eastern European countries.
In 1972 he participated in the Venice Biennale (theater section) with the sets for the drama “Egloga” by Franco Cuomo and Maricla Boggio.
In 1974 he collaborated with the Treccani Encyclopedia as coordinator of the vocabulary image.
In 1977-1979 he is in Australia. Between 1983 and 1984 he painted two altarpieces for the church of Quercia di Aulla (Massa-Carrara).
In 1983 he was in Sweden (1983) and starting from 1984 he commuted between Rome and New York.
In 1992 Caputo was among the fifty most significant Italian artists of the second half of the 19th century in the English magazine Art and Design .
His works appear in private and public collections in Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, England, Sweden, Denmark, Israel, the United States, Argentina and Australia.
For his desolate urban views, especially in New York, Fortunato Bellonzi defines Tonino Caputo as the “new metaphysician
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