(ANSA) – ROME, JAN 14 – Farewell to the artist of the “little drawings”. The painter Gianfranco Baruchello, an exponent of what is known as “extra-medial” art, has died in Rome at the age of 98. A major protagonist of the Italian art scene since the 1960s and master of our time, Baruchello was born in Livorno on August 24, 1924.
Paris will mark the turning point thanks to meetings with the Chilean painter Roberto Matta, the French poet and art critic Alain Jouffroy, the American composer John Cage and above all Marcel Duchamp, who will have a strong influence on Baruchello’s production. The Italian artist will turn to other forms of expression and enter the field of extra-media art, as defined by art historian Enrico Crispolti. He manages to fuse together, in an eclectic and atypical way, multidisciplinary tools and references: not only painting, installation, assemblage, moving image, photography, sound, publishing, but also economics, anthropology, agriculture, aesthetics.
Its beginnings date back to 1962 with participation in the New Realists exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York, along with Enrico Baj, Tano Festa, Mimmo Rotella and Mario Schifano. In 1963 he received a personal exhibition at La Tartaruga in Rome. In 2011, the National Gallery of Modern Art (Gnam) in Rome dedicated an anthological exhibition to him entitled “Gianfranco Baruchello.
Certain Ideas”, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, followed by others in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in 2018 the retrospective “Gianfranco Baruchello”, curated by Gianfranco Maraniello at the Mart in Rovereto.
His works are part of the collections of the most important museums, not least the Maxxi in Rome, which houses “Piccolo Sistema”, a kind of compendium of the artist’s poetics.
Also famous is the project “Voices on the water” that Baruchello presented at the Spoleto Festival in 1989, a performance in which the artist takes care of a small ginkgo biloba bonsai.
In 1998, at the behest of him and his wife Carla Subrizi, professor of contemporary art at the Sapienza University in Rome, the Baruchello Foundation was created with premises of a thousand square meters on four floors in via di Santa Cornelia in Rome. in the Park of Veio. (HAND).
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