1965 – 2015 Galerie Buchholz

Gianfranco Baruchello

* 1924 in Livorno, Italy

Looking at Gianfranco Baruchello’s work the assumption arises that meeting Marcel Duchamp in his early years prompted him into devoting himself to „how things are situated side by side in ones head“ and working thus consequently: a dense structure of smallest image details and sections plus words usually relates to comprehensive situations. The sense of the works emerges through reenactmentof of the detail’s polystructures in context.

 

There are outstanding early works, drawings on multilayered acrylic panes, parts of the works done in enamel on aluminum. Another body of work are the object cases, leading to a multitude of surprising formal inventions. Putting together elements offairy tales, daily life, personal obsessions, reflections on nature, on art – much more could be mentioned, may create the appearance of an extract of all these issues.

 

„… We were in Italy, visiting the painter Baruchello, whom I quite like. He paints big white paintings with tiny things on them. You have to get very close to look at them …“ Marcel in Duchamp in Pierre Cabanne: Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp, 1972

Photo: Godula Buchholz, Rom 2011

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