Carlo Alfano ^©  

(1932 - 1990)

Same artwork but different example is in the collection of MOMA, New York with object number n 207.1976.1-4

The lot is visible at Blindarte Milan


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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)