Luciano Fabro

Luciano Fabro ( born November 20, 1936 in Turin, † June 22, 2007 in Milan ) was an Italian painter and object artist. He is regarded as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera due to his choice of materials.

Life and work

Luciano Fabro was born in 1936 in Turin and was self-taught artist. From 1954 to 1958, Fabro employed for the first time with moving objects and arranged them into art objects. In 1959 he went to Milan, where he lived until his death. He is regarded since the sixties as a renowned artists of the Arte Povera movement and is one of the most influential artists of Italy.

In 1965 he had his first solo exhibition at the Galleria in Milan Vismara. He became famous for his series Italie, during which he conveyed the silhouette of Italy with different materials such as fabrics, metal or glass. In 1972 he was represented as an artist at the documenta 5 in Kassel in the Department of Individual mythologies, more exhibitions followed at the documenta 7 in 1982 and the documenta IX in 1992. His objects, installations and conceptual art works are shown in most major European museums and in the U.S. been, among others, in 1990 the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, ​​in 1991 at the Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1992 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1996 at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and 1997 in the Tate Gallery in London. He was awarded an Antonio Feltrinelli Prize in 1993.

As an art theorist Fabro lectured widely on contemporary art and was more than twenty years as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Brera in Milan. He commented, for example, in 1995 Pavel Florenskijs obtained in seven parts series of lectures on space and time in the visual arts, which he had held at the Vkhutemas, the Higher State Artistic-Technical - workshops in Moscow from 1923 to 1924.

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

Awards

Writings

• Luciano Fabro, Pavel Florensky: Vkhutemas. Reflections on the lectures ' time and space in the visual arts, " held by Pavel Florensky 1923 and 1924 to the Vkhutemas in Moscow, presented in 1995 at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. Gachnang & Springer, Bern / Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-906127-75-3.