Flavio “Kampah” Campagna, director, painter, designer, illustrator, photographer and stencil artist of international fame, passed away at the age of 59.
To announce the disappearance is his brother Gino.
Campagna was hospitalized in the Covid ward of the Maggiore hospital in Parma.
“Kampah is a concept, an ideal and as such it does not die but lives in people who, like us, have known it. It lives within us, with us, it does not abandon us. It reminds us that the impossible is possible, that life is valid only if lived to the full as he did “, writes his brother on facebook.
“The cursed virus took us away Flavio Kampah Campagna, man, father, artist, genius. How many projects we talked about, maybe too many to do them all, but you were like that, Flavio: exuberant as always, a volcano of ideas and life “: these are the farewell words of the mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti. “From the whole Parma community, a tender hug to his daughter, mother, brother and the whole family. Hello great artist. We will really miss you, Flavio. We will miss everything about you”. “We will follow your example and continue to walk forward, to fight, to live and always believe that the people who leave us are somehow close to us, precisely because as you say ‘There is no life, there is no’ is death ‘”.
Among the many to remember the artist is Morgan: “Flavio Campagna, aka Kampah, very modern visual artist, great inventor of techniques, experimenter, photographer, director, graphic designer, designer, there is no area of the art of ‘image and the sign that Kampah has not practiced and anticipated, his work will remain “. “Flavio Kampah – adds the singer – was the most good and calm person in the world, with him everything was always very beautiful, easy, because he had an inner security, a person to trust, a real man, a father, a brother, I will miss you so much, my friend.
The street artist, also known as F CK, was one of the pioneers of television motion graphics working from Rome to London, Los Angeles and Sydney.
Kampah colors the Great Ring Road of Rome
There is also the Parmesan Flavio Campagna, aka Kampah or F CK, among the artists who took part in the GraArt project, an urban art project on the walls of the Grande Raccordo Anulare in Rome. A way to color and liven up the outskirts of the capital. The Kampah mural stands out on a 4 meter high and 45 meter long wall in Cinecittà and is inspired by the Peplum films of the 1950s and 1960s; along the perimeter Steve Reeves is painted in seven different colors like seven were Kings of Rome. The initial idea is by Davide Diavù Vecchiato founder of the Urban Art Museum in Rome (Muro).
After graduating from the Paolo Toschi State Institute of Art in Parma, he specialized in Advertising Graphics. lavio Campagna aka Kampah or also F CK, born in Parma on 6 November 1962, is a
In the 1990s, in Los Angeles, he became one of the pioneers of television motion graphics, with a style that has influenced many modern designers and directors. He has worked, among others with Augusto Vignali, Elio Fiorucci, Mario Convertino, and for Cherry Coke, Toyota, Intel, Hyundai, Hbo, Avon, New York Life, Nexxus, Nike, Apple, Adobe, Radius, Espn, Espn2, ABC , E !, Ericsson, Wired, Pac Bell, Cnn, Northwest, Blockbuster, Standford Hospital, Avon, Replay, Toto, Ridley Scott, directed the theme song for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Awarded an Emmy, it boasts a television commercial on permanent display at the MoMA in New York. In addition to exhibiting his works in prestigious galleries and public places, his Street Art works are visible around the world between Italy, the United States and Cuba.
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