The artist Gianfranco Baruchello died aged 98 years old to Rome. Born in Leghorn on August 24, 1924, is considered one of the undisputed interpreters of the contemporary world. He was the painter of the “small drawings” and a representative of the so-called “extramedial». After the war, he completed his law studies with an economics thesis and founded a research company in the 1950s that dealt with chemistry and biology, but then turned to the artistic field. So he started his new apprenticeship Paris where he met the artists Roberto Matta, Alain Jouffroy, and John Cage. And where did he meet? Marcel Duchamp. In 1998 he founded the Baruchello Foundation along with his wife Carla Subrizi, Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Rome La Sapienza. A cultural company that has a huge library of about forty thousand volumes, equipment and audio-video systems, as well as various works by Baruchello. In 2011 the National Gallery of Modern Art (Ynam) from Rome organized an exhibition of his works entitled “Gianfranco Baruchello”. His artworks are included in major museum collections, including those of Maxxi of Rome.
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