Charles Arnoldi

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Charles Arnoldi also known as Chuck Arnoldi and Charles Arthur Arnoldi (born April 10, 1946 in Dayton , Ohio , USA ; lives in Los Angeles , California , USA) is an American contemporary painter , printmaker and sculptor . He is known for his brightly colored, abstract paintings using wood as an expressive form, often with knots and twigs incorporated.

life and work

While visiting a friend's grandmother in New York City , he first saw the works of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning . He felt that he was also able to do the same and enrolled at the Art Center in Los Angeles .

He received a scholarship and attended illustration classes in the late 1960s. After only two weeks he left school and attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1968, where he stayed for eight months until he finally decided to give up his formal education and started it through artistic practice as an autodidact .

Arnoldi began using branches and twigs as compositional elements in his works, in connection with painting, and called this " stick constructions ".

In the early 1970s, he received a lot of attention for his wall relief wood sculptures. He had his first solo exhibition of these works in the Riko Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles in 1971. The following year, 1972, to participate in the Documenta 5 in Kassel in the department / Light Idea + Idea invited. The use of wood continues to play an important role in Arnoldi's work, although he has also frequently used combinations of other media since the 1980s.

He played himself in the film Sketches of Frank Gehry directed by Sydney Pollack in 2005.

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X

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personal data
SURNAME Arnoldi, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnoldi, Chuck; Arnoldi, Charles Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Dayton , Ohio , USA