Getulio Alviani

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Getulio Alviani (born September 5, 1939 in Udine ; † February 24, 2018 in Milan ) was an Italian painter , object artist , representative of Op Art and Kinetic Art .

life and work

Since childhood, Alviani showed great talent for design and geometric drawings. He began his training in Venice at the art school there, but soon had little interest in his studies, and instead began to study classical masterpieces in Venice's museums in the afternoons. He also started with smaller works for local architects and artists for example color etchings. His first artistic work was the wires , inspired by electric overhead lines.

He was fascinated by the polished aluminum surfaces that he saw in a factory in which he worked: after further polishing and abrasion of the surfaces, they became his trademark Superfici ein testura vibratile (“vibrating texture surfaces”), which he considered international Gaining recognition.

He exhibited his aluminum surfaces in Zagreb in 1961 at the Nove Tendencije exhibition , together with other artists who followed similar paths: exploring the possibilities of dynamic interaction between art and the viewer. He began a lively exchange of ideas with artists such as Julio Le Parc , Alberto Biasi , François Morellet and Enrico Castellani , and was active in the studios of the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel (GRAV) in Paris.

After moving to Milan in 1963, he made friends with Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana , who were very interested in his work and bought some of his “surfaces”. He also worked with other famous artists such as Max Bill and Josef Albers . In 1964 he was invited to the Venice Biennale to exhibit in a room with Enrico Castellani. In 1968 he participated in the 4th documenta in Kassel .

In 1965 he participated in the exhibition The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City , along with the world's most famous artists of kinetic art. His work was so successful that it was chosen by MoMA as the cover picture for the museum's next exhibition: The New Acquisitions .

In the 1970s he traveled to South America and, at the request of Jesús Rafael Soto, was entrusted with the management of the Modern Art Museum of Ciudad Bolívar . He was also again a participant in the Venice Biennale in 1984, 1986 and 1993.

Since 2000 he has been in many important exhibitions: Triennale of Milan, Kunsthaus Graz , Siena Palazzo delle Papesse, in Rome , in the Académie de France, Buenos Aires Biennale, the traveling exhibition Light, Movement and Programming , in important German museums and on the Rome Quadrennial represented.

Alviani lived and worked in Milan .

Works in public collections (selection)

  • Foundation for Concrete Art and Design Ingolstadt
  • Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico - BEIC 6356189.jpg
  • Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico - BEIC 6356238.jpg

Publications

Literature and Sources

  • IV. Documenta. International exhibition . Catalog: Volume 1: (painting and sculpture). Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects). Kassel 1968
  • The Idea Concrete - Concrete Art as a development in the history of ideas . Ed .: Tobias Hoffmann. Wien Verlag, Cologne 2012
  • Getulio Alviani . Catalog: New Gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, 1979
  • Getulio Alviani . Catalog: Colussa galleria d'arte, 2000
  • Getulio Alviani . Catalog: Galleria comunale d'arte conemporanea di monfalcone, Trieste 2003
  • Getulio Alviani . Catalog: GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo 2005

Individual proof

  1. ^ Getulio Alviani, l'arte dice addio all'artigiano della matematica

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Alviani, Getulio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Op Art and Kinetics artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Udine , Italy
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2018
Place of death Milan , Italy