Gianfranco Baruchello

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Gianfranco Baruchello (* 1924 in Livorno ) is an Italian artist who lives in Rome and Paris.

Life

Gianfranco Baruchello is the son of a lawyer, who was also director of the "Unione industriale di Livorno" (interest group of industrialists) and professor at the University of Pisa, and a primary school teacher. He attended the "Umberto I" high school in Rome, today the "Pilo Albertelli" high school. After the Second World War, he completed his law studies with a thesis in economics. In 1947 he worked for the Bombrini Parodi Delfini company , which produced chemically manufactured gunpowder and explosives . Between 1949 and 1959, at the instigation of his father, he took care of the company for chemical-biological research and production . In 1959 Baruchello left the company to devote himself exclusively to art. He met Sebastian Matta and three years later Alain Jouffroy . In 1963 he met Marcel Duchamp, who introduced him to the New York art scene. In New York in 1964 he made the acquaintance of John Cage and Pop Art and American abstract expressionism. Under this influence, he began to be interested in moving images, in film, and worked with the Italian filmmaker Alberto Grifi . The film Verifica incerta was created through their collaboration .

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His artistic beginnings can be traced back to 1959, when he experimented with the canvas as a picture carrier and composed objects with recycled found materials. From 1962 he painted pictures on large canvases and developed a series of his own motifs. He placed sporadic traces of color, vague shapes and single lines on white surfaces. In the early 1970s, Baruchello began assembling objects in boxes made of wood or Plexiglas and his paintings are now more on aluminum. The pictures on the canvases, the drawings and the aluminum pictures are populated by small figures and objects from everyday life that are spread out on the paper in the form of trails and maps.

Gianfranco Baruchello has dealt with a wide variety of topics over the decades. He made his first film in the mid-1960s. It deals with the degradation of the image, with the photocopy and the photocopy of the photocopy. In 1968 he co-founded the company "Artiflex", which simulates financial operations. The motto was "Artiflex commercializes everything". In 1975 Baruchello moved to the countryside and founded the "Agricola Cornelia SpA" movement, which deals with agriculture and researches myths, cultures and traditions of agriculture and zoo technology. In 1984 the book "Bellissimo il giardino" was published, which explains Baruchello's preoccupation with garden art.

"Take a painting, a box, one of Gianfranco Baruchello's books. They are 'great stores' of invisible, barely audible stories, which emerge from the visual and incomprehensively reveal themselves through monograms ... They are deposits of narrative energy. Little generators of fable ... There is little to see, a lot to think about. "

The painting of Baruchello, which makes itself out on large white surfaces, is an intellectual painting. A relationship with Paul Klee is unmistakable. It behaves in a similar way to Pop Art. Here, artists have picked out banal objects from everyday life and enlarged them again. Baruchello, on the other hand, shrinks it. Baruchello's painting, however, is based on the same banal everyday pictures that were placed on the canvas as letters of the alphabet on a book page. These images, which come from the iconography of television and advertising, were shrunk by the artist to the size of writing. Hence his painting has to be read. As a result, it must be thought, deliberated, as any scripture requires. Baruchello also admits that his work is never inspired by images, but rather by words and ideas. He is interested, for example, in the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and in the French artist Marcel Duchamp , to whom he often dedicates works. He was a close friend of the latter, and Duchamp appreciated Baruchello's work; they are made to look at them closely and for a long time. Theories of German philosophers from the 19th century such as Hegel and Kant are also part of his spiritual nourishment. In a previously unpublished interview between the artist and his colleague Maurizio Cattelan , Baruchello also admits that whenever possible he likes to visit museums of "classical" art, where he admires masterpieces by Cranach, Bosch or Mantegna. The artist's entire oeuvre is influenced by autobiographical elements. The history and places of his life as well as personal artistic, political and literary myths such as love, friends, gardens, Duchamp, Lacan etc. can be found in his miniaturized objects.

Baruchello's work is little known in German-speaking countries.

Exhibitions

bibliography

  • Fabbri, P. (ed.) Gianfranco Baruchello. Flussi, pieghe, pensieri in bocca , Skira, Milano 2007
  • Bandini, M. L'altopiano dell'incerto , Fabbri, Milano, 1992
  • Lyotard, J.-F. La pittura del segreto nell'epoca post-moderna , Baruchello, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1982
  • Huber, HD System and Effect: Rauschenberg, Twombly, Baruchello, Questions of the Interpretation and Meaning of Contemporary Art, A Systems Theoretical Approach , Fink, Munich, 1989
  • Trini T. I ntroduzione a Baruchello. Tradizione orale e arte popolare in una pittura d'avanguardia , Galleria Schwarz, Milano, 1975
  • Eco, U. Conversazione con Baruchello , in: De Consolatione Picturae, Galleria Schwarz, Milano, 1970

Bonito Oliva, A - Subrizi C., Baruchello. Certe idee , Electa, Roma, 2011.

Artist books

  • Mi viene in mente , Galleria Schwarz, Milano, 1966
  • Avventure nell'armadio di Plexiglass , Feltrinelli, Milano, 1968
  • La quindicesima riga , Marcatrè, Lerici, Roma, 1968
  • Alphabets d'Éros , Galilée, Paris, 1976 (with G. Lascault)
  • La Stazione del Conte Goluchowsky , Exit, Bologna, 1978
  • L'altra casa , Galilée, Paris, 1979
  • Agricola Cornelia SpA . 1973-'81, Exit, Milano, 1981
  • La scomparsa di Amanda Silvers , Exit, Bologna 1982
  • How to imagine , McPherson, New York, 1984 (with H. Martin)
  • Bellissimo il giardino , Exit, Ravenna, 1989
  • Miss Omissis , Exit, Bologna, 1991
  • Occhio di pietra , Exit & Galleria Milano, 1995
  • 6 poèmes et 8 dessins , AIOU, Saint-Etienne-Vallée-Française, 1995
  • Quaranta evening in TV , Exit, Ravenna, 1996
  • "Gianfranco Baruchello, Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin. 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lyotard, La pittura del segreto nell'epoca post-moderna, Baruchello, Feltrinelli, 1982.
  2. ↑ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on May 4, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Baruchello, Gianfranco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Livorno