Gianfranco Baruchello

(1924 - 2023)

Galleria Schwarz, Milan, as per label on the reverse;

Private collection

Exhibitions:

Baruchello Supericonoscopio, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, from April 3rd to 30th 1968

Literature:

Baruchello Supericonoscopio. An interview by Arturo Schwarz to the artist, curated by Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 1968, illustrated on a page not numbered


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In the artworks of Gianfranco Baruchello (Livorno, 1924 - Rome, 2023) stands out, as in the work of 1967 here proposed, a creative virtuality that is expressed through the miniaturization of the sign, the suggestions that affirm a creative spirit deliberately light and unpredictable.

An experimenter of languages and techniques, Baruchello began his activity at the end of the fifties by rethinking the pictorial medium, practicing juxtaposition, assembly and writing. Hence his decision to leave the certain for the uncertain and a continuous artistic research. For the artist the color of the uncertain is the white that becomes the field of his paintings on which are deposited sequences of signs-images that many have tried to define.

The artist’s iconography is the result of collisions and short circuits that respond to the logic of an almost biological dialectic. The space of art with Baruchello is no longer the space of representation but that of the event: it opens to receive the signs that are organized and define themselves in tune with their support, without a value scale, with neither high nor low, neither right nor left, the fragment is presented as an autonomous entity that has renounced any form of unity or centrality. (from the artist’s biography by the Museo Madre, Naples).