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Biography
Italian painter. In 1970, studied Architecture at the Universitá degli Studi "La Sapienza" and acquired a studio where he produced drawings based on his childhood memories and dreams. Boetti, Beuys and Twombly were some of his early influences. In 1971, he exhibited his first collages at the Giulia Gallery, in Rome, and in the years that followed his frequent trips to India were the main source of his inspiration. In the mid-70s, he turned against formalism and Conceptual Art. His first large scale oil paintings were produced during a stay in New York (1981-82) and later presented at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and in Stockholm. He took part in Documenta 7 in Kassel and, in 1984, produced works in collaboration with the painters Jean Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. His paintings combine abstract forms with figurative elements making him, along with Chia and Cucchi one of the major representatives of Italian Transavanguardia.
Exhibitions
The Vocali ( A E I O U) DIA Art Foundation, USA 01-07-1989 ~ 31-10-1989
Affinities and Intuitions: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art Art Institute of Chicago, The, USA 01-05-1990 ~ 01-07-1990
Grande Escala - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 09-10-2004 ~ 18-03-2005
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Sedução Cinema & Pintura Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 27-06-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Affinities and Intuitions: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art, 1990 Published by The Art Institute of Chicago
Grande Escala - The Berardo Collection, 2004 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 972890200X
Sedução Cinema & Pintura, 2006 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903034
Sotheby's, Contemporary Art from the Estate of Gerald S. Elliot, New York, Wednesday, November 2 and November 3 1994, lot 20, 1994 Published by Sotheby´s
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
The Vocali (A E I O U), 1989 Published by DIA Art Foundation
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