Luciano Fabro

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La doppia faccia del cielo [translated: The double face of heaven ] (1986)

Luciano Fabro (born November 20, 1936 in Turin , † June 22, 2007 in Milan ) was an Italian painter and object artist . He is considered one of the most important representatives of the Italian arte povera because of the choice of his materials .

life and work

Luciano Fabro was born in Turin in 1936 and was a self-taught artist . From 1954 to 1958 Fabro dealt with moving objects for the first time and arranged them into art objects. In 1959 he went to Milan and lived there until the end of his life. He has been a well-known representative of Arte povera since the 1960s and is one of the most influential artists in Italy.

In 1965 he had his first solo exhibition in the Galleria Vismara in Milan . He became known through his series Italie , in which he depicted the silhouette of Italy with various materials such as fabrics, metal or glass. In 1972 he was represented as an artist at documenta 5 in Kassel in the Individual Mythologies department , further exhibitions followed at documenta 7 in 1982 and documenta IX in 1992. His objects, installations and conceptual works of art are shown in most of the major European museums and in the USA in 1990 in the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona , 1991 in the Kunstmuseum Luzern , 1992 in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , 1996 in the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris and 1997 in the Tate Gallery in London . In 1993 he was awarded an Antonio Feltrinelli Prize .

As an art theorist, Fabro gave numerous lectures on contemporary art and was a lecturer at the Brera Art Academy in Milan for more than twenty years . Here he commented e.g. B. 1995 Pavel Florenskij's seven-part series of lectures on space and time in the visual arts, which he held from 1923 to 1924 at the VChUTEMAS , the higher state-artistic-technical workshops in Moscow.

On June 22, 2007, Luciano Fabro died in Milan of a heart attack at the age of 70.

Awards

Fonts

  • Luciano Fabro, Pavel Florenskij : VChUTEMAS. Reflections on the lectures «Space and Time in Fine Art», given by Pavel Florenskij in 1923 and 1924 at the VChUTEMAS in Moscow, given in 1995 at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. Gachnang & Springer, Bern / Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-906127-75-3 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Luciano Fabro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Evidence cited

  1. ^ New York Times , "Luciano Fabro, Italian Artist, Dies at 70" July 3, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Fabro, Luciano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2007
Place of death Milan