The polymateric compositions displayed in this exhibition - of which they form the backbone, though not exclusively - exemplify the main expression of Gastone Cecconello's art. Angelo Giardino 2003 Notes on polymaths   An educated painter, in devising his assemblages he has not abandoned painting, but has made it one of the means to be employed in a quest that skirts the thresholds of the

Angelo Gilardino Catalog of the exhibition at "La Finestrella" gallery, 1990.   Cecconello comes from afar, and he was certainly not trained in the studios of Piedmontese painters: an inheritance from the local tradition may have flowed obliquely during his training at the Institute of Fine Arts in Vercelli (the city where the artist was born in 1942): there Renzo Roncarolo - a favorite pupil

Bruno Pozzato From the catalog for the solo exhibition in Salussola 1996 Gastone Cecconello no longer needs any expressive deformation to be himself. Behind him presses an experience gained in the shadow of the great masters of modernity: from Picasso to Duchamp, from Fontana to Bacon. Today in Cecconello there is something that, within this homologated language (which has itself become "traditional"), characterizes him in

Salvatore Maugeri 1991   One element that is certainly indicative of Gastone Cecconello's personality can be found right from the evidence of his debut, and that is that of conceiving plastic expression capable of absorbing the element proper to painting. The two distinct forms of artistic invention can coexist, coexist, and not only where one imposes on the other its explicit mode of being and

The Place of Beauty. The hamlet of Bonda di Mezzana Mortigliengo belongs to that conspicuous Biella geography of ascetic places of untamed charm. Six hundred meters above sea level, perched on a panoramic terrace with three orders of rural settlements overlooking the Cossatese baraggia from the southern slopes of the Mosso Valley, the tiny hamlet has an ancient and a modern history. The ancient one

  Silvio Zanella From the catalog of the anthological exhibition in Gallarate, 1991   The panorama of Gastone Cecconello's creative years is presented in two sharp periods divided by a profound caesura as if a shocking event in his life but especially in his soul had determined a new way of loving, living and making art. It is 1986. On one side of the furrow