Michele Del Campo was born in Sannicandro Garganico (FG) in 1976.
In 2007 he graduated in Fine Arts with specialty 'Artes Plásticas' Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Previously, in 2001, he obtained a degree 'Bachelor of Design (Hons) Degree in Illustration and Printmaking' at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee (UK).
In 2007 he graduated in Fine Arts with specialty 'Artes Plásticas' Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Previously, in 2001, he obtained a degree 'Bachelor of Design (Hons) Degree in Illustration and Printmaking' at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee (UK).
He began to exhibit individually in Madrid in 2004 at the GalerÃa Jorge
Alcolea. Since then his work has been a great success with audiences and
critics in various personal celebrations in Madrid, Barcelona,
Valencia, London and Lima.
Among the awards he has won is worth noting the "BMW Award" in 2006,
with a budget of 35,000 euros, delivered to them by Queen SofÃa of
Spain, and the prize "Luces" the best exhibition of the year in Peru in
2012.
Since 2008 lives and works in London. Its main gallery is now reference
the prestigious Imago Art Gallery, with offices in London and Lugano.
"In my paintings I construct a reality based on decontextualized
mundane scenes of young and attractive people in urban settings. A
reality that goes beyond the capture of an instant but seeks to express,
in more general terms, the notion of a 'globalised' urban youth
according to their idealised vision of themselves.
This concept is materialized in their attitudes, how they occupy the
place, the way they stand or sit, showing the confidence they have in
their own body, always dressed with fashionable clothes. The
environments in which they appear are just hints of the world they live
in, often personalised by their intervention, like in the case of
graffiti or tags, but never a mere description of a particular place or
city."
