Sandro Bocola

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Sandro Bocola (born March 16, 1931 in Trieste ) is an Italian - Swiss writer and artist .

life and work

Sandro Bocola was born in Trieste in 1931 and grew up in Italy , Libya and Switzerland . After two years of training at the general trade school in Basel , Bocola embarked on a career as a painter in 1950. In 1955 he moved to Barcelona , where he temporarily gave up painting to work as a graphic designer for advertising. During a ten-year stay in Paris and the move with his family to Zurich in 1969, Bocola worked as a graphic designer and artist.

After completing a psychoanalysis and further training at the Psychoanalytical Seminar in Zurich , from 1975 he devoted himself primarily to art-mediating activities as a publisher, curator and as the author of several books on the development of modern art history .

In the summer of 2002 he moved into a second home in Barcelona, ​​where over the next five years he created videos and digital images in which photographic figuration and geometric design elements combine to form a pictorial unit. The moderate response to his first three exhibitions led him to stop his digital experiments in 2007.

art

General

Bocola's artistic production is divided into three epochs, namely 1950–1955 (from cubism to geometric non-objectivity)

1965–1972 (connection of photographic figuration with geometric, graphic design elements)

2002–2005 (The previous design concept is expanded to include the potential of digital image processing in images and videos).

Solo exhibitions in Basel, Geneva and Barcelona, ​​group exhibitions in Basel, Zurich, Geneva, Paris, London, Oslo, Eindhoven, Berlin, New York, Philadelphia and Caracas.

1968: Foundation of the Multiple Edition Xartcollection (together with three partners: Heinz Bütler, Rolf Fehlbaum, Erwin Meierhofer).

1971 Publication of the artist wallpaper collection Xartwalls.

Advertising graphics

Freelance designer in Barcelona, ​​Zurich, Basel and Paris. 1959–1960 employee of Graphis magazine , Zurich. 1961 artistic director of the advertising agency Robert Delpire, Paris. Design of advertisements and billboards for large department stores (PKZ, C&A, Jelmoli, Vögele).

Conception and design of exhibitions

1959: On behalf of the department store chain Magazine zum Globus, Basel, conception and design of an exhibition for the 500th anniversary of the University of Basel: "The human being in the mirror of science"

1978: Founding and establishment of the Museo de Arte Popular in Horta de San Juan.

Curator of the traveling exhibition “African Seats” for the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein.

Opening: June 10, 1994, further stations: 1994 Paris, 1995 Munich and Kolding / Denmark, 1995/96 Vienna, 1996 Tervuren / Belgium.

Books (selection)

From 1980 on art theory and sporadic articles for the Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich. In the following book publications in Switzerland, Germany and internationally.

  • The experience of uncertainty in contemporary art . Waser Verlag, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-908080-24-X (carton).
  • The art of modernity. On the structure and dynamics of their development. From Goya to Beuys . Prestel, Munich / New York 1994, ISBN 3-7913-1889-6 , new edition in Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen, Lahn 2013, ISBN 978-3-8379-2215-8 .
  • African Seats , in an English, German and French edition, Prestel, Munich / New York 1995, ISBN 3-7913-1426-2 .
  • El Arte de la Modernidad , Ediciones del Serbal, Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84-7628-289-3 .
  • The Art of Modernism . Prestel, Munich / New York 2009, ISBN 3-7913-2146-3 .
  • Timelines - Die Kunst der Moderne in an English, German, French and Dutch edition, Taschen, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-8228-1357-5 ; as well as a Persian edition from Farhang-e-Moaser, Tehran 2009.
  • Families Schär and Bocola , self-published, Bocola-Lambelet, Basel 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Bocola, Sandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Swiss writer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste