Luciano Caruso (poet)

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Luciano Caruso
Born1944
Foglianise, Sannio, Italy
Died2002
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forPoetry, Visual arts

Luciano Caruso was a poet, visual artist, critic, journalist and writer. He was born in 1944 in Foglianise, a region located in the mountains of Sannio, Italy. [1] He grew up and lived in Naples until 1976. After this point, he moved to Florence. [2] He graduated in Medieval Aesthetics, with a thesis on carmina figurata. [3] While in Naples he was also the editor of many magazines of the avant-garde, among them Linea Sud, Ana etcetera, Continuum, Uomini e Idee, Silence's Wake, E/mana/zione etc.... [4]

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Influences

As a young student of philosophy, Luciano Caruso was influenced by the style of Benedetto Croce and Antonio Gramsci. [5] In Naples, he was surrounded by the work of the historians Nino Cortese, Vincenzo Cilento, Giuseppe Galasso, Francesco Compagna, Salvatore Battaglia, and the Latin scholar Francesco Arnaldi. He frequented 'heretics' such the art historian Raffaello Causa and the writer Luigi Incoronato. He held a political loyalty which brought him into extremely close contact with the conditions of life in the poorer parts of Naples. This loyalty brought to his attention the problematic nature parallel with art and contemporary poetry. He spent a lot of time in Naples with the painters of Group 58. These artists included Enrico Bugli, Bruno Di Bello, Lucio Del Pezzo, Mario Persico, [6] Salvatore Paladino, Guido Biasi etc.... Among such artists, Luciano Caruso was closest to Mario Colucci, who, having himself joined the movement 'Pittura Nucleare', brought Caruso into contact with the Milanese environment as well as the Parisian. He did this by introducing him to Baj, D'Angelo and Manzoni as well as the Parisian Letterism, Dufrène and the Situationists. Caruso was also influenced by the French experience of the 60s. This is evident in his use of the analogue procedure of Surrealist descent and also in his experimentation with the possibility of the 'letter' freed from the word in artist's expression. He met up regularly with the poet Stelio Maria Martini, together founding the group Continuum in 1967. [7] Caruso would also often visit Rome to see Emilio Villa and Mario Diacono. [8]

Caruso re-discovered medieval visual tests and researched painters such as Alberto Burri. [9] This research resulted in the artistic use of manual or printed writing. Caruso also began creating works using untouched or torn paper, paper respected or tampered with, paper with stains or deletions. He started assembling works with everyday or strange recycled objects. [10] For example, Caruso would use bark, rope, sheets of paper. His first calligraphic works can be traced back to 1963–64 [11] and his first book was created in 1965. After the anthology Il gesto poetico [12] of avant-garde poetry (Naples, 1968) Caruso produced a substantial amount of essays, writings, revisions and annotations. Luciano Caruso was both a practitioner and student of Futurism, looking over the re-printing of various Futurist texts starting from 1974. [13] Between 1976 and 1994 he collaborated with the British composer and early Fluxus artist Dick Higgins. [14]

Demise

Luciano Caruso himself held around 60 personal exhibitions and participated in a number of exhibitions dedicated to 'Poesia Visuale', 'Poesia visiva', 'Nuova scrittura' and 'Libri d'artista', in Italy and abroad. [15] Many of his later artistic works, such as 'The silk road' [16] and 'Atlanta' are dedicated to the theme of "artistic life as a long journey". Caruso was among the curators of the exhibition 'Alfabeto in sogno' [17] in 2002 in Reggio Emilia and, in November, he presented his final pieces in Naples: 5 books. On 16 December 2002, Luciano Caruso died in Florence. [18]

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  1. ↑
    • Piemontese, Felice (September 1990). Autodizionario degli scrittori italiani (01/90 ed.). Milan: Leonardo. pp. 93–94. ISBN   88-355-0077-X.
  2. ↑
    • Caruso, Luciano (February 1997). Anabasi Senza Nome: Poesia visuale e libro d'artista in Italia. Reggio Calabria: International AM Edizioni.
  3. ↑ Caruso, Luciano; Polara, Giovanni (July 1969). Iuvenilia Loeti. via Lazio 9, Rome: Lerici Editore Roma.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. ↑
    • Parola Immagine Per l'Aggiornamento di un Museo. Viale Milano 21: Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna. September 1991. p. 41.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. ↑
    • Maria Martini, Stelio (March 1984). Del Poetar Citando (Luciano Caruso 1962–1983) (1 ed.). Belforte Editore Libraio. p. 101.
  6. ↑ Caruso, Luciano (September 2002). Personae. via Marano, 46 (UD): Campanotto Editore. pp. 8–9. ISBN   88-456-0451-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  7. ↑
    • Caruso, Luciano (February 1997). Anabasi Senza Nome: Poesia visuale e libro d'artista in Italia. Reggio Calabria: International AM Edizioni.
  8. ↑ Caruso, Luciano (September 2002). Personae. via Marano, 46 (UD): Campanotto Editore. pp. 8–9. ISBN   88-456-0451-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  9. ↑ Caruso, Luciano (December 1997). Noirnul per burri - per villa: libro-opera 1969 (Esemplare N. 31 ed.). via Grande 91, Linvorno: Belforte Editore Libraio.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  10. ↑ Tecce, Angela; Villa, Emilio; Bandini, Mirella; Zanchetti, Giorgio (May 1995). Alchimia della Scrittura – Luciano Caruso, Opere 1963 – 1995. Livorno: Belforte Editore Libraio. p. 108.
  11. ↑ Tecce, Angela; Villa, Emilio; Bandini, Mirella; Zanchetti, Giorgio (May 1995). Alchimia della Scrittura – Luciano Caruso, Opere 1963 – 1995. Livorno: Belforte Editore Libraio. pp. 27–28.
  12. ↑ Caruso, Luciano; Piancastelli, Corrado (December 1968). Il gesto poetico: antologia nella nuova poesia d'avanguardia. Via Poggio de' Mari, 16 Naples: Enzo Portolano Editore.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  13. ↑ Manifesti e Documenti teorici del Futurismo 1909–1944. Spes-Salimbeni, Florence.
  14. ↑ Higgins, Dick. "Lettere di Dick Higgins a Luciano Caruso" (1976-1994) [Letters]. Archivio Luciano Caruso, Box: 23, File: 15, ID: 2, pp. 44. Via de Ginori, 23: Archivio Luciano Caruso. 1976–1994.
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    • Caruso, Luciano (February 1997). Anabasi Senza Nome: Poesia visuale e libro d'artista in Italia. Reggio Calabria: International AM Edizioni.
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  17. ↑ Parmiggiani, Claudio (2002). Alfabeto in sogno. Foro Buonaparte 52, Milano: Mazzotta. pp. 299–342. ISBN   88-202-1532-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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