RVBER, stage name of Fabio Capoccia, was born in Pitigliano in 1986. After his humanistic education in Siena, he now lives between the Maremma and Rome, where he comes into contact with the classical tradition and the intellectual experience of nature, elaborating his own expressive path through colour.
Creating for RVBER is a necessity, like breathing. The experience of creativity represents his whole life. He calls himself a composer of colour, of chromatic symphonies: colours are the notes of pictorial musical composition. Over the years, he has painted works of small, medium and large format in his Tuscan studio, a kind of human and artistic exile. Canvases and panels represent form, the consistency of colour and the creative process; oil is the lifeblood. Creating means being able to communicate and this is enough to exist.
MAIN UPCOMING ART EVENTS / SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Hotel de Russie /Via del Babuino, 9, 00187 Rome
Palazzo Dama / Lungotevere Arnaldo da Brescia, 2, 00196 Rome
On the occasion of the Jubilee 2025 the Maestro in collaboration with the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic and the VII Commission (Culture, Art, Science) of the Chamber of Deputies is organising an important artistic event. The Maestro will exhibit some portraits of the cardinal nephews – together with large-scale pictorial cycles – who, with the construction of the most important Roman noble palaces (currently home to Italy’s main museums and galleries) have brought enormous cultural progress to Italy and the entire world.
Portfolio / MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ART
The exhibition featured around thirty oil on canvas and panel works of various sizes (125x90cm;100x70cm) inside the splendid residence of Villa Lysis on the island of Capri. The works were set up on the upper floor of the mansion in the bedrooms of Nino Cesarini and Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen with a magnificent view of the Sorrentine Peninsula, the Gulf of Naples and the port of Marina Grande. The works created a cultural dialogue with the history of Villa Fersen, helping the visitor to retrace the memory of one of Italy’s most evocative places
The exhibition in the Umberto Mastroianni Museum featured large painting cycles (250 x 185 cm; 185 x 125 cm) oil on canvas and panel. The first room was dedicated to the myth of Orpheus. The second was set up with large-format abstract works. The fourth and fifth rooms displayed works that paid homage to Rome and a classicism revisited in contemporary myths.
The exhibition featured a select series of canvases and oil paintings depicting mainly Capri landscapes in an expressionist and emotionally engaging style. The exhibition ‘Capri the Coloured Dream’ inaugurated the new exhibition space managed by the Capri Town Council inside Palazzo Vanalesti in Piazza Ignazio Cerio, a few metres from the famous Piazzetta. Some works were also set up in the gardens of the Villa Helios hotel, creating an emotional journey for hotel guests and visitors alike
The ancient rooms of Grosseto’s Cassero Senese, a museum venue of cultural attraction in the city, hosted a monographic exhibition of the artist. The colours of the Maremma were the protagonists of the exhibition, creating medium and large format works. A chromatic journey into the atmosphere that has inspired generations of artists for centuries. An exhibition rich in educational and cultural stimuli; colour is the sign of the journey.
https://www.grossetonotizie.com/colore-di-maremma-fabio-capoccia-cassero-grosseto/
Four large painting cycles were set up on special wooden supports inside the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on the Capitoline Hill in Rome: The Crucifixion oil on panel/dictation 350×250 cm; the Resurrection oil on panel/dictation 350×250 cm; the Deposition oil on panel 250×185 cm and the Pietà oil on panel 185×125 cm. The works were exhibited in the entrance area of the Basilica at the end of the staircase in Piazza Venezia next to the Bufalini Chapel frescoed by Pinturicchio and the tomb of Giovanni Crivelli by Donatello. The sacredness of the place dates back to the time of Emperor Augustus.
https://www.sanfrancescopatronoditalia.it/notizie/francescanesimo/san-francesco-e-l’arte-oggi-52804
Aurinia is the ancient name for Saturnia. It comes from the Latin ‘aurum’ gold in relation to the sulphur in the precious yellow water. The artist wanted to pay homage to Saturnia with three large oil paintings, each measuring 185×125 cm. Three monochromes that could synthesise the soul of Aurinia. The first panel is dominated by blue, the colour of the waters and the sky; the second is dominated by red, the fire, the heat that warms the precious waters; the third panel is dominated by the yellow of the sun, the fields and the sulphur that illuminates the work. The three ‘twin’ tables were set up in the main hall of the famous five-star hotel Terme di Saturnia Natural Destination Spa & Golf Club. The installation thus created an artistic relationship with the works by Arnaldo Pomodoro set up in the gardens and evoked the chromatic atmosphere of the world’s most famous spa.
https://www.lanazione.it/grosseto/cronaca/aurinia-di-fabio-capoccia-ospite-alle-terme-di-saturnia-237e059f
https://www.lanazione.it/grosseto/cronaca/gran-gala-alle-terme-di-saturnia-suggestioni-al-festival-del-film-1.6641249
The museum centre ‘Le Clarisse’ in Grosseto hosted a selection of works by the artist on the occasion of the Saturnia Film Festival and the career award ceremony for actress Milena Vukotic.
https://www.grossetonotizie.com/programma-saturnia-film-festival-2021/
‘La dolorosa fugga’ is a quotation from Boccaccio’s novella Nastagio degli Onesti. The artist wanted to create a kind of contemporary artistic Decameron, setting up large pictorial cycles in the university spaces (the entire ground and first floor) of Palazzo San Niccolò.
https://www.unisi.it/unisilife/eventi/presentazione-della-mostra-la-dolorosa-fugga-di-fabio-capoccia
The marvellous 16th-century frescoed rooms of the Orsini Palace in Pitigliano, seat of the Episcopal Curia and the Diocesan Museum, housed fifteen large pictorial cycles relating to scenes from the Passion and Resurrection of Christ. The artist took inspiration from the Passion and Resurrection pulpit sculpted by Donatello located in the basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence and returned to the public after lengthy restoration.
The Angelica Library is perhaps the best known and most important historical library in Rome located near Piazza Navona. The artist has created an exhibition itinerary within the prestigious spaces of the Galleria Angelica annexed to the Library, offering the public large painting cycles and smaller format works. The colour of the figurative dimension and the contemplative-abstract dimension paid homage to the soul of classical Rome. the ludus magnus, from which the artist drew inspiration for the title of the monographic exhibition, was the gladiators’ gymnasium adjacent to the colosseum, from which the gladiators could access the arena of the Flavian amphitheatre via an underground passageway. Ludomagno thus symbolises a great cultural fresco of the new Rome, of contemporary civilisation.
“May-Day” Personal exhibition
May-day is the cry for help from those in distress. But it is also a homage, playing with the significance of the title, to the month of May, the month dedicated to Maia, the mother-earth. The first floor of the University Palace of San Niccolò in Siena hosted a pictorial cycle composed of ten oil-painted panels, each measuring 185×125 cm. An artistic ecosystem, a portrait of our contemporary society and time.
2015; 2016 Rome – Participation in the selection pool for the Farnesina Contemporary Art Collection c/o MAE / Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The former Latin paper mill, now the headquarters of the Appia Antica Regional Park, hosted an important monographic exhibition by the artist. The place is deeply evocative. Located opposite the Quo Vadis church and adjacent to the catacombs of San Sebastiano, the Nagasawa room offered visitors canvases and oil-painted panels in a fascinating and timeless chromatic journey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhA0VkeP3RA
The gallery located in the heart of Rome’s historic centre near the Vatican featured a series of self-portraits and other works that marked a decisive artistic turning point for the Maestro. The artist wanted to investigate his relationship with creation and nature in a chromatic fusion of panism and rebirth.
https://www.elenagradini.it/mostre/border-line-lorizzonte-metatestuale-di-fabio-capoccia/
The exhibition in the keep of the Orsini fortress in Sorano presented the public with a series of mainly abstract works. Engraving and the barbarity of the sign evoked the styles of a timeless art to engrave and narrate contemporary life.
Inside the magnificent 16th-century Medici family granaries overlooking the Lente river valley in Sorano, the Maestro has created a dreamlike artistic journey. The works ‘flew’ under the high arched vaults of the granary because they were hung with invisible fishing wires. The visitor could therefore swim with his gaze among the colours of the panels and canvases in a suspended but profoundly immanent time.
• 22-04-2011/08-05-2011 Sorano, former Medici granary p.zza del Poggio – “Le figlie della Memoria” Personal exhibition
The daughters of Memory are the muses. The artist thus wanted to link his works to an eternal and irreplaceable cultural identity. Creation is the child of the soul and the mind, and works that communicate the true human artistic experience are handed down through the time of Memory.
Internship: 5/11-05-2009 Internship activities aimed at the acquisition of university training credits at the library of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa; 13/25-9-2004 training and orientation courses at the reception of the Terme di Saturnia Spa
Awards: 11-12-2014 Meeting and debate with prof. Carmelo Occhipinti at the Tor Vergata University on the undersigned artistic works; MAE 2012 trainee winner in collaboration with the CRUI foundation and the University of Siena; first place in the 2005 Youth Project organized by the Soroptimist of Grosseto for new graduates c/o Bocconi University; participation in the ‘Alfieri del Lavoro’ 2005 prize, organized by the national association of the Knights of Labor; 28-6-2004 / 9-7-2004 English language course c/o Embassy CES College in Bedford (UK); 21/22-05-2004 Participation in the Study Meeting ‘Sulle tracce della storia 1933-1945’ in Sant’Anna di Stazzema; 1-09-2003 Certificate of Attendance General English course-accredited by the British Council-c/o ISIS Education and Travel in Greenwich (UK)
