Achille Bonito Oliva

Achille Bonito Oliva ( * November 4, 1939 in Caggiano, Salerno province ) is an Italian art historian, art critic and author, and is one of the most prestigious art theorists of contemporary art in Italy. He coined in the late 1970s the concept of Italian Transavantgarde: Transavanguardia.

Life and work

Achille Bonito Oliva graduated 1961 in jurisprudence; after he studied literature, especially poetry. The mid-1960s he became a member of the Writers' Association neoavantgardistischen Gruppo 63, 1967, he wrote the poetry book Made in Mater and 1968 Fiction Poems. In 1968 he moved to Rome, where he distinguished himself as a commentator and critic in the field of contemporary art in the coming years. In 1980 he published his widely acclaimed work, La Transavanguardia Italiana, which provided the doctrinal superstructure for the product derived from the Arte Povera young painter Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi and Mimmo Paladino and abruptly after-effect on other European artists, such as the Neue Wilden in Germany or figuration Libre in France had. As a mediator of Transavanguardia organized Bonito Oliva from early 1980 numerous exhibitions such as the Aperto 80 in the course of its Board of Trustees at the 39th Venice Biennale in 1980, or the Avanguardia Transavanguardia 1982 in Rome. In 1993 he took over the leadership of the Board of Trustees 45th Biennale. Achille Bonito Oliva in 2007 initiated the exhibition Transcendental Realism: The Art Of Adi Da Samraj in the 52nd Venice Biennale.

Achille Bonito Oliva has published numerous papers, essays, and reception of the avant-garde trends in art and described the aftermath of epochal mannerisms on the aesthetics of modernity. For his work he received numerous awards, including the 1991 International Prize for Art Criticism, Valentino d' Oro.

Currently, Achille Bonito Oliva, Professor of Contemporary Art at La Sapienza University of Rome.

Writings

  • Dialogues d' artista. Incontri con l' arte contemporanea 1970-1984, Electa, Milan 1984, ISBN 88 -435 1072- X (Italian, English )
  • The ideology of the traitor. Mannerist Art - Art of Mannerism. Translation by Heinz -Georg Held, DuMont, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-5424- X
  • In the maze of art. Translation of Isolde Eckle, Merve, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88396-025- X
  • Italian Transavantagarde. (Original 1980), Giancarlo Politi, Milan 1992, ISBN 88-7816-038-5 (English)
  • Imaginary dialogues. Merve, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-88396-097-5
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