Luciano Castelli

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Luciano Castelli
Born (1951-09-28) 28 September 1951 (age 71)
Lucerne, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Occupation(s)Painter, graphic artist, photographer, sculptor and musician
Website https://www.lucianocastelli.com/

Luciano Castelli (born 28 September 1951 in Lucerne) is a Swiss painter, graphic artist, photographer, sculptor and musician.

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Life and work

Lucerne: model, self-promoter, Art Star

Luciano Castelli visited the preliminary course of the School of Applied Arts [1] where he studied with Max von Moos. Then he learned signwriting and became in the early 1970s the key figure in Lucerne's Bohemia. [2] Castelli and his residential community [3] became part of art history through snapshots that artist Franz Gertsch transformed into monumental photorealistic paintings. In addition to "Luciano Castelli I", [4] "At Luciano's House" and "Marina making up Luciano", [5] it was mainly "Medici", a group portrait of "the long-haired freaks around the shrill painter Luciano Castelli" that became the "cover picture of Harald Szeemann's documenta 5". [6] Castelli, who showed in 1971 Shiloum", a smoke pipe used for hashish. [7] Castelli became a star of the art world. [8] Much he owed to Jean-Christophe Ammann, the former assistant of Szeemann and director of the Museum of Art Lucerne, who had brought him into contact with Gertsch and invited him at the Documenta. 1974 Ammann showed in his seminal exhibition "Transformer - Aspects of Travesty" androgynous photos of Castelli. [9] The exhibition represented also the Surrealist Pierre Molinier, who later staged Castelli for photos. [10] Castelli’s androgynous self-styling was influenced by the aesthetics of Glam Rock, but then he began to fathom other roles like the young conservative, the movie star or the sadomasochist. [10]

Berlin: Junge Wilde and Punk

1978 Castelli went to Berlin and became part of the circle around the Galerie am Moritzplatz, to which he adapted with his expressive, fast painting. [11] The painters who demarcated from intellectualism and the severity of the 1970s avant-garde, became a part of art history as Neue Wilde. Castelli painted works together with Salomé as well as with Rainer Fetting. [12] Together with Salomé he founded the avant-garde punk band Geile Tiere (Horny Animals), where he sang and played bass. The band was closely associated with the Berlin Club Jungle and obtained notoriety by shrill appearances. With Salomé and Fetting Castelli undertook in 1982 a tour through France with performance concerts. [12]

Paris: Camera Obscura and Revolving Paintings

In 1989 Castelli settled down in Paris and married two years later Alexandra, who he painted over and over again. He experimented with a home-made camera obscura and developed his Revolving Paintings. They can be turned 360° and have no defined upper edge. Depending on how they are hung, the viewer sees other faces, bodies, or city views. The motives "overlap and penetrate each other, giving supposedly abstract structures that turn out to be representational when the corresponding motive stays right," writes Peter K. Wehrli. [12]

Comeback

Currently Castelli witnesses a growing interest in his work. [13] His photographic self-portraits have been published in a book by renowned art publisher Edition Patrick Frey and shown in a broad overview exhibition in Paris. [14] In 2015 the National Art Museum of China in Beijing presents a major exhibition on the paintings that then goes to the Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai. [15] For China Castelli developed engines, which slowly rotate the Revolving Paintings by 360°.

Miscellaneous

Literature

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References

  1. ↑ Ein Komet am Kunsthimmel. Die sagenhafte Kunstkarriere des Luciano Castelli, Jörg Schwerzmann in: Bolero, Mai 1 2014
  2. ↑ Biographie Luciano Castelli, S. 270 in: Franz Gertsch. Die Retrospektive. Hrsg. von Reinhard Spieler. 2005 Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit. ISBN   978-3-7757-1661-1
  3. ↑ Zwischen Aufbruch und Rückzug, Karl Wüst in: Der Landbote, November 12, 2005
  4. ↑ Kunstmuseum Luzern, Online Sammlung, Sylvia Rüttimann über Gertschs Luciano Castelli I, retrieved March 28 2015
  5. ↑ "Gesteigerte Präsenz", Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath in NZZ, December 16 2005, retrieved March 28 2015
  6. ↑ Ausstellungen Schweiz. Bern & Burgdorf Franz Gertsch, Basler Zeitung, November 14, 2005
  7. ↑ DOCUMENTA 5. Befragung der Realität - Bildwelten heute. Harald Szeemann u.a., documenta GmbH/C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 1972, ISBN   3-570-02856-9
  8. ↑ "Kommt nach 27 mehr als nach 28?", Claudia Spinelli in: Die Weltwoche, Mai 13 2005
  9. ↑ "Transformer – Aspekte der Travestie". Hrsg. Von Jean-Christophe Ammann. Katalog, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1974
  10. 1 2 Luciano Castelli. Self-Portrait 1973-1986. 2014, Verlag Patrick Frey, Zürich. ISBN   978-3-905929-57-7
  11. ↑ Bilder eines exzentrischen Künstlerlebens. Berner Zeitung, June 13, 2013
  12. 1 2 3 Revolving Paintings. Luciano Castelli, 1998, Benteli Verlag, Wabern-Bern. ISBN   3-7165-1121-8
  13. ↑ Ein Komet am Kunsthimmel. Die sagenhafte Kunstkarriere des Luciano Castelli, Jörg Schwerzmann, Bolero Mai 1 2014
  14. ↑ Homepage Maison Européenne de la Fotografie, retrieved April 4 2015
  15. ↑ "Es ist dieses Selbtsvertrauen, was in China fasziniert." Kuratorin Huang Mei über den Künstler Luciano Castelli, retrieved April 4 2015
  16. ↑ "Franz Gertsch sorgt für Sensation in London", Jürg Steiner, Berner Zeitung. February 16 2011, retrieved April 3 2015
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