Alfio Giuffrida

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Full Name	Alfio Giuffrida
Occupation	Italian sculptor
Date Of Birth	Jan 28, 1953(1953-01-28)
Age	71
Birthplace	Zafferana Etnea
Country	Italy
Horoscope	Aquarius

Alfio Giuffrida Biography

Alfio Giuffrida is one of the most popular and richest Italian sculptor who was born on January 28, 1953 in Zafferana Etnea, Italy. Alfio Giuffrida (born 28 January 1953) is a contemporary Italian sculptor, object and installation artist, set designer and painter. He is one of the artists who consciously refused to bow down to the current trends in order to create a highly distinct, coherent piece of work. Giuffrida who comes from Catania initially worked in Rome until he relocated to Germany in the mid eighties.

He moved to Cologne in 1986, deliberately setting his sights on one of the most active centres in contemporary art at that time. The colours appear in characteristic dapple style on large-format canvasses, under which shapes are silhouetted, apparently moving as if behind textured glass. The horizontally layered colours are broken up in irregular though rhythmic sequences, and in this way suggest the movement of an undetected being that is captured in a distortion akin to a wipe effect in photography. Something similar happens in the human images group of works in which figurative representation becomes an experimental sphere. The human images develop their suggestive power through serial sequencing and dynamic distortion. In their mask-like reproduction of almost identical forms, they run counter to any expression of unique personality, which differs from the classical portrait emphasizing one person‘s individuality. The human being mutates into a prototype, appearing in diverse variations within the serial arrangement and disappearing in the masses.

Künstler in Köln 1990, Köln 1989. M. Haas, A. Tolnay (Bearb.), Grafische Sammlung der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Bestands-Kat. II, Esslingen 1991. B. Colarossi (Ed.), Quadriennale D′arte di Roma, Inv. Dell′arch., Rome 2000, ISBN

8876211276. Ulrich Schneider, Gert Fischer: Suermondt Ludwig Museum Aachen, Stadtmuseum Siegburg (Hrsg.): Giuffrida, Aachen/Siegburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-007525-9. Martin Stather: A.G. Sinnwerke, Mannheimer Kunstverein (Hrsg.): A.G. Sinnwerke Giuffrida CDs, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-00-014058-1. Nele Lipp, Uwe Rüth: Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (Hrsg.): Körper – Leib – Raum: Der Raum im zeitgenössischen Tanz und in der zeitgenössischen Plastik, Marl 2006, ISBN 3-924790-73-6.

From 1990 to 2004 he worked in his studio in Bonn. Still committed to varied sequences and rhythmic movement, Giuffrida ended up in his new group of works at the picture puzzle using abstract elements and shapes. Canvasses were now inspired by architectural and ornamental structures captured in mysterious light and shadow arrangements, in shades of grey-blue and white. With the wooden reliefs and sculptures that then followed in 1995, Giuffrida transposed the notion of picture puzzles into the third dimension. He made assemblages from dismantled individual items and furniture freed from its functional context, combining them with worked wood panels. The relief-like wooden sculptures look like magnified details of the painted puzzles. Symmetrical arrangements, repetitions and sequences crop up here as well.

Between 1977 and 1985 he worked as a freelance painter and set designer in Rome. At this point he began to develop a substantial body of painted work, a stringent transitional route in which the reduction of form revealed his early proximity to Minimalist Art and at the same time took on mythical, fantastic features. His pictorial language incorporates traces of Italian Futurism (Giacomo Balla, Carlo Carrà), of painters such as Lucio Fontana, Mario Nigro, Gustav Klimt, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky. Added to which, it can also be traced back to Pre-Columbian Mayan art. Experience of post-Impressionism (Pointillism) combines with computer graphics techniques (raster graphics), which in turn have links to the visual effects of his current high-tech constructions (microwave towers).

Alfio Giuffrida Net Worth

Alfio Giuffrida is one of the richest Italian sculptor from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alfio Giuffrida 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

There was a concentrated series of works in the early 1970s influenced by Minimalism (Minimal Art). Among other things, he created transparent, folded canvases that incorporated superimposed folded shapes, form elements – cut out and therefore definitively liberated from their original context: floating particles in a solidified fluid, like scattered inlays in radiant amber. The colour only becomes apparent in the light and iridescence, further differentiated by the surface. As in other still haptic works, the first configurations are not created through construction but through attachments that allow forms to emerge through a mechanical process, almost by chance and in a semi-experimental way. Impression, abrasion, reprinting, reduction are pseudo-objective processes that resemble scientific production methods in the infusion of chance and methodology, subjectivity and objectivity. Pastel colours are dabbed on paper then gently lifted off, their image detached onto gauze impregnated with glue, the colour particles sticking to it like delicate pollen. In the milky-white of the semi-transparent base mass, the detached pigments float like preciously preserved spolia and spores, sprinkled like stars over the universe of the paper. Imperceptibly yet inexorably their blaze expands the sfumato-white background into an all-encompassing space which attains cosmic dimensions and spans light years.

In 1975 he returned to non-figurative representation. This period saw him participating at the X Rome Quadriennale that year.

March/April 1989 Bahnwärterhaus Villa Merkel – Galerie der Stadt Esslingen. February/April 2001 Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen. April/June 2001 Stadtmuseum Siegburg. July/August 2004 Mannheimer Kunstverein. September/December 2006 Märkisches Museum Witten. March/June 2007 Stadtmuseum Bergkamen.

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A period of intense nature studies followed these works, though he did not formulate them as naturalistic reproductions but instead took them in an abstract direction. With scientific precision, he examined plant structures in particular, dissecting organic material and making cross sections in natural tissue in order to study the essence of things and figure out the basic nature of form. Giuffrida understood the minutiae at the heart of the elements he analysed as fundamental forms of nature, which are combined in natural creation in myriad, endlessly varied formations. He reduces these basic shapes to geometric patterns which he captures in small square pictures in equally diverse variations. These mainly take the form of black-and-white dabbed paintings, some of which are on transparent paper that seems to correspond to the materiality of the diaphanous floral tissue. It is at this point that he begins to be captivated by the technical quality and effect of transparency, another guiding principle running consistently through Giuffrida’s art and his constant search for the best forms of expression for the wide range of materials suited to him.

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Alfred Ranked on the list of most popular Italian sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Alfio Giuffrida celebrates birthday on January 28 of every year.

During the self-imposed exile in the foreign language environment, he developed his artistic vocabulary with which he formulated his own cosmos. With the Adjustable Elements, Giuffrida bypassed the boundaries of the term “sculpture” known until then. Ambiguity and variability become basic principles which constitute Giuffrida’s sculptures as well as his paintings.