Carlo Alfano

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Carlo Alfano, Photo: Augusto De Luca

Carlo Alfano (born May 22, 1932 in Naples , † October 25, 1990 ) was an Italian painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Carlo Alfano studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli and became known for audiovisual projects in the late 1960s. Alfano was inspired by his literary and philosophical - anthropological interests, by Michel Foucault , Shakespeare , Cervantes , Marcel Proust , James Joyce and many others.

In 1969 Carlo Alfano began with the series “Frammenti di un autoritratto anonimo / Fragments of an anonymous self-portrait”, which he continued to work on throughout his life. Carlo Alfano recorded the passage of time with scriptural signs.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

literature

  • Written painting: Carlo Alfano, Annalies Klophaus, Roman Opalka, Dieter Rühmann, Cy Twombly, Ben Vautier. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 1975.
  • Günter Meißner: Alfano, Carlo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 2, Seemann, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-363-00115-0 , p. 319.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carlo Alfano at artfacts.net accessed on June 4, 2015
  2. ^ Art directory Carlo Alfano , accessed on June 4, 2015 (English).
  3. ↑ madre Carlo Alfano , accessed on June 4, 2015 (English).
  4. ^ Catalog for documenta 6. Volume 3, p. 110: hand drawings, utopian design, books. 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X .
  5. ↑ Art Calendar The time -online, accessed June 4, 2015.
  6. ↑ Napoli unplugged Carlo Alfano exhibition ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on June 4, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.napoliunplugged.com
personal data
SURNAME Alfano, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1990