Sandro Bocola

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

Life and work

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

After completion of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic training at the Zurich Seminar, he devoted himself from 1975 onwards mainly art -promoting activities as a publisher, curator and as an author of several books on art historical development of modernity.

In summer 2002, he moved into a second home in Barcelona, ​​where he created over the next five years, videos and digital images that combine photographic figuration with geometric design elements to create a visual unity. The moderate response to his first three exhibitions led him in 2007 to adjust its digital experiments.

Art

Generally

Bocolas artistic production is divided into three periods, namely 1950-1955 ( From Cubism to the geometric non-representational )

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

2002-2005 ( The current design concept is extended in images and videos to the potential of the digital image processing).

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 Meier Hofer).

1971 publication of the artist wallpaper collection Xartwalls.

Commercial art

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

Conception and design of exhibitions

1959: On behalf of the department store chain Globus magazine, Basel, conception and design an exhibition on the 500th anniversary of the University of Basel: "Man 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, but further stations: 1994 Paris, 1995 Munich and Kolding / Denmark, 1995/96 Vienna, 1996 Tervuren / Belgium.

Books (selection)

From 1980 kunsttheoeretische writings and sporadically published articles for the Tages Anzeiger, Zurich. The following books published in Switzerland, Germany and internationally.

  • The experience of uncertainty in contemporary art. Waser Verlag, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-908080-24- X (C. ).
  • 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 psycho- social -Verlag, Giessen, Lahn 2013, ISBN 978-3-8379-2215-8.
  • African seats, each in 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 - The Art of modernity in each of English, German, French and Dutch Edition, bags, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-8228-1357-5; as well as Persian edition in Farhang -e- Moaser Artistic, Tehran, 2009.
  • Families Schär and Bocola, self-publishing, Bocola - Lambelet, Basel, 2010.
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