Carlo Alfano

(1932 - 1990)

Modern Art Agency - Lucio Amelio stamp on the back

Provenance:

Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples
here acquired by the present owner

Exhibitions:

Naples, Castel Sant'Elmo, 9 November 1991 - 19 January 1992

Literature:

Out of the Shadow - New Trends in Fine Arts in Naples from 45 to 65, Naples, Elio de Rosa Editore, 1991, page 378 n. 299;
Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Naples 1950 - 1981, the renewal of painting in Italy, 24 September 2000 - 7 January 2001, exhibition catalogue, page 113

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Carlo Alfano was born in Naples in 1932 where he lived and studied ABA before becoming a painter, designer and exponent of intermediate art. After his debut linked to the Informal painting of the 1950s, Carlo Alfano began a reflection dedicated to the mechanisms of vision and perception, which starting from the production of kinetic works of art led to the creation of three-dimensional environments. Since the end of the 1960s his work has increasingly consciously taken on the features of conceptual research. This season is characterized by linguistic and philosophical elements that investigate space and time, the individual and the other. During the Seventies and with more continuity in the following decade, Alfano's work returns to figuration, dealing with mythological subjects and iconographic references from the history of art, without however giving up the self-reflexive dimension that distinguishes his results up to his latest creations. He died in 1990 and in April 2001 the Castel dell'Ovo Museum in Naples dedicated an important retrospective to him.

(From the website libreriamartini.it)