Luciano Castelli

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Luciano Castelli (born September 28, 1951 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss painter, graphic artist, photographer, sculptor and musician.

life and work

Lucerne: model, self-promoter, art star

Luciano Castelli attended Max von Moos ' preliminary course at the Kunstgewerbeschule, then learned to be a script painter and was the key figure in Lucerne's bohemian tradition in the early 1970s. Castelli and his flat share went down in art history through snapshots that the artist Franz Gertsch translated into monumental photo-realistic paintings. In addition to “Luciano Castelli I”, “At Luciano's House” and “Marina makes up Luciano”, this was primarily “ Medici ”, a group portrait of “the long-haired freaks around the shrill painter Luciano Castelli”, which became the “actual cover picture of Harald Szeemann's documenta 5 " has been. Castelli, who had his first solo exhibition in 1971, was - at the age of just 21 - also invited as an artist to Documenta 5, where he presented sculptures of everyday objects such as a shoe or a handkerchief, which are also used as a “chiloum”, a smoking pipe could. Castelli became a scene star.

He owed a lot to Jean-Christophe Ammann , the former assistant to Szeemann and director of the Kunstmuseum Luzern, who brought him in contact with Gertsch and brought him to the Documenta. In 1974 Ammann showed androgynous photos by Castelli in his groundbreaking exhibition "Transformer - Aspects of Travesty " and remarked: "For him, travesty means less a basic behavior between the sexes than the expressive marriage of a male realizing and a female pole characterized by availability." The surrealist Pierre Molinier was also represented in the exhibition, who subsequently corresponded with Castelli and staged him for photos. The androgynous self-stylization was influenced by the aesthetics of glam rock , soon afterwards Castelli began to explore other roles, ranging from the young conservative to the film star to the sado- maso looks.

Berlin: New wild and punk musician

In 1978 Castelli moved to Berlin and ended up in a circle around the gallery on Moritzplatz, to which he fitted with his expressive, fast painting. The painters, who distinguished themselves from the intellectualism and the rigor of the 1970s avant-garde, went down in art history as Neue Wilde . Castelli painted community pictures with Rainer Fetting as well as with his partner, the artist Salomé . With Salomé he founded the avant-garde punk band Geile Tiere , where he sang and played bass. The band was closely associated with the Berlin club Dschungel and gained notoriety through shrill performances. With Salomé and Fetting, Castelli undertook a tour of France with performance concerts in 1982.

Paris: Camera Obscura and Revolving Paintings

Castelli settled in Paris in 1989 and married Alexandra in 1991, whom he repeatedly painted. He experiments with a self-made camera obscura and develops his revolving paintings. These can be rotated and have no defined top edge. Depending on how they are hung, viewers see different faces, bodies or cityscapes. The motifs «overlap and penetrate each other, sometimes lie flat or stand upside down, provide supposedly abstract structures and often only prove to be objectively bound when the associated motif is“ straight ”,” writes Peter K. Wehrli .

comeback

Castelli is currently experiencing a growing interest in his work. His photographic self-portraits have been published in a volume by the Zurich art publisher Edition Patrick Frey and have been shown in a broad overview exhibition in Paris. In 2015, the National Art Museum of China in Beijing is presenting a large exhibition on painting, which will then go to the Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai. Castelli had motors developed for China with which the Revolving Paintings slowly rotate through 360 °.

Public collections

  • Fonds régional d'art contemporain - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne , France

various

  • In 1985, Luciano Castelli portrayed the musician Stephan Eicher for the cover of his LP I Tell This Night.
  • In 2011 the Gertsch portrait "Luciano 1" achieved a price of 2.3 million Swiss francs at a Sotheby's auction.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1971 Toni Gerber Gallery, Berne.
  • 1986 Kunstverein Kassel
  • 2014 Luciano Castelli, Self-Portraits, 1973–1986, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.
  • 2015 The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
  • 2015 Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1970 Visualized thought processes , Kunsthaus Luzern, Switzerland.
  • 1972 Documenta 5 , Kassel
  • 1974 Transformer - Aspects of Travesty , Kunsthaus Luzern, Switzerland.
  • 1980 39th Biennale di Venezia (Aperto), Venice.
  • 1987 Berlin Art 1961-87 , Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  • 2018/19 The Invention of the New Wild - Painting and Subculture around 1980 , Ludwig Forum , Aachen.

literature

  • Luciano Castelli: the pirate Fu. Luciano Castelli . 1985, exhibition catalog Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva.
  • Erika Billeter & Luciano Castelli: Luciano Castelli. A painter dreams. A painter who dreams himself. 1986, Benteli, Bern.
  • A look behind the screen. Luciano Castelli . 1986, exhibition catalog Raab Galerie, Berlin.
  • Castelli, Luciano. Images 1972-1988 . 1989, Benteli, Bern.
  • Luciano Castelli, exhibition catalog, 1990, Galerie Raab, Berlin and London.
  • Luciano Castelli, 1991, exhibition catalog Galerie Fischer, Lucerne
  • Erika Billeter: Luciano Castelli. The dreamed woman / La femme revee / The dreamed woman . 1993, Benteli, Bern.
  • Revolving Paintings. Luciano Castelli . Benteli, Wabern-Bern 1998, ISBN 3-7165-1121-8 .
  • Luciano Castelli: Le Miroir du Desir . 1996, Editions Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris.
  • Jean-Michel Ribettes: Luciano Castelli . Exhibition catalog, Edition Mennour 2001, ISBN 978-2-914171-06-9 .
  • Luciano Castelli: Works from 1979 to 1999. Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin 2001.
  • Matthias Liebel: Luciano Castelli - 30 years of painting. The painterly oeuvre of the artist from its beginnings to the end of the 90s . Dissertation, University of Bamberg 2006 ( full text ).
  • Luciano Castelli. Self-Portrait 1973-1986 . Patrick Frey publishing house, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-905929-57-7 .
  • Harald Szeemann : Documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today . New gallery, Schöne Aussicht, Museum Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz, Kassel. Bertelsmann, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-570-02856-9 .
  • Jean-Christophe Ammann (ed.): Transformer - Aspects of the travesty . Exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Luzern 1974.
  • Swiss art 70-80. Regionalism / internationalism; Assessment of a new attitude in Swiss art in the 1970s using the example of 30 artists. - Vol. II: Libro d'artista, 15 artisti formano agniuno 15 pagine. JM Armleder, Luciano Castelli, Martin Disler, Marianne Eigenheer, Heiner Kielholz, Urs Lüthi, Chasper-Otto Melcher, Markus Raetz, Claude Sandoz, Jean Frederic Schnyder, Hugo Suter, Niele Toroni, Aldo Walker, Ilse Weber, Rolf Winnewisser. 1981 Kunstmuseum Luzern, ISBN 3-267-00022-X .
  • 30 artists from Switzerland. Galerie Kritzinger, Innsbruck, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Galerie St. Stephan, Vienna. 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A comet in the artificial sky. The fabulous art career of Luciano Castelli, Jörg Schwerzmann in: Bolero from May 1, 2014
  2. ^ Biography of Luciano Castelli, p. 270 in: Franz Gertsch. The retrospective. Edited by Reinhard Spieler. 2005 Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit. ISBN 978-3-7757-1661-1
  3. ^ Between departure and retreat , Karl Wüst in: Der Landbote from November 12, 2005
  4. ^ Kunstmuseum Luzern, online collection, Sylvia Rüttimann on Gertsch's Luciano Castelli I, accessed on March 28, 2015
  5. ^ "Increased presence", Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath in the NZZ of December 16, 2005, accessed on March 28, 2015
  6. ↑ Exhibitions Switzerland. Bern & Burgdorf Franz Gertsch, Basler Zeitung of November 14, 2005
  7. ↑ DOCUMENTA 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today. Harald Szeemann u. a., documenta GmbH / C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 1972, ISBN 3-570-02856-9
  8. ↑ "Does more come after 27 than after 28?", Claudia Spinelli in: Die Weltwoche on May 13, 2005
  9. ^ "Transformer - Aspects of Travesty". Edited by Jean-Christophe Ammann. Catalog, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1974
  10. ↑ a b Luciano Castelli. Self-Portrait 1973-1986. 2014, Patrick Frey publishing house, Zurich. ISBN 978-3-905929-57-7
  11. ↑ Pictures of an eccentric artist's life. Berner Zeitung of June 13, 2013
  12. ↑ a b c Revolving Paintings. Luciano Castelli, 1998, Benteli Verlag, Wabern-Bern. ISBN 3-7165-1121-8
  13. ↑ A comet in the artificial sky. The fabulous art career of Luciano Castelli, Jörg Schwerzmann in: Bolero from May 1, 2014
  14. ↑ Home page Maison Européenne de la Photography, accessed on 4 April 2015
  15. ↑ "It is this self-confidence that fascinates in China." Curator Huang Mei on the artist Luciano Castelli, accessed on April 4, 2015
  16. ^ "Franz Gertsch causes a sensation in London", Jürg Steiner in: Berner Zeitung of February 16, 2011, accessed on April 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Castelli, Luciano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter, graphic artist, photographer and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne