Carmelo Cappello
1912-1996
Born in Ragusa, Sicily, in 1912, Carmelo Cappello trained at the Istituto d'Arte in Comiso, then in Milan and at the ISIA in Monza, in Marino Marini's classes. He made his debut as a sculptor in 1937.
Shown at the Venice Biennale from 1940 and at documenta II in Kassel in 1959, he turned to steel from 1961. In 1987 the city of Milan commissioned from him a nine-metre steel sculpture for Piazza VI Febbraio. He died in Milan in 1996; his home town devotes the Civica Raccolta Cappello to his work.
