Enrico Corte

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Full Name	Enrico Corte
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Jun 21, 1963(1963-06-21)
Age	61
Birthplace	Cagliari
Country	Italy
Birth City	Sardinia
Horoscope	Gemini

Enrico Corte Biography

Enrico Corte is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on June 21, 1963 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

In the second half of the 1980’s Corte produced two series of works: the Double Face series, consisting in thirty-five pieces, followed by the Cross Fades series, consisting of forty pieces. In the former, the artist altered the traditional way a picture is displayed, hanging panels attached to steel cables in the center of the exhibiting area. The panels were painted on both sides, often with images and subjects that are quite different from the point of view of color or figurative representation. The viewer is invited to walk around the picture as it hangs in a void to discover the conceptual tie between the two sides of the work. Often the images depicted emerge from the surface, standing out like altorilievi or jutting sculptures. The Cross Fades series began in 1987 and represent an extension of the works in Double Face: the pictures in this series look as if they are hanging on the wall in a traditional fashion but they are divided into two panels joined by hinges so that they can be opened and closed like a book (or rather, like a Japanese book: from right to left). One of the two panels is fixed to the wall while the other is moveable and can be opened or closed by the viewer on the hinges. When the works in the Cross Fades series are closed, that is to say, when one panel is folded over the other, all that the viewer can see is a black square hanging on the wall; it is necessary to use one’s hands to open the panels in order to be able to see the images painted within.

Enrico Corte was born in Cagliari, on the island of Sardinia, Italy. He completed his courses of studies at the artistic high school in Cagliari, where he met a classmate, Andrea Nurcis, an artist with whom he began an artistic dialogue and partnership that have lasted to the present day. Corte began exhibiting in 1980; in 1982 he held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Cagliari, where he juxtaposed his works directly with those of the artists in the Gallery’s permanent collection, such as Giulio Paolini, Bridget Riley, Enrico Castellani, and Piero Gilardi. In addiction to visual art, he was influenced by international literature, cinema, theater and, above all, to the history of music. In 1983 his interestin the cinema and theater led to an encounter with the film director Mario Martone, who put him in touch with the Idra Duarte gallery in Naples, an experimental space run by artists where Corte and Nurcis organized a double solo exhibition in 1986. They received the attention of the art critics Enrico Crispolti and Filiberto Menna, who invited them to exhibit at the 1986 Rome Quadriennale. The Quadriennale aimed to take stock of the Italian visual art in the mid-1980s and included such artists as Francesco Clemente, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giuseppe Penone, Mimmo Paladino, Mario Merz. Through to his presence in the Quadriennale, Corte was introduced to some of the representatives of the cultural and artistic world in Rome, including Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Enzo Cucchi, Gino De Dominicis and, in particular, the multimedia artist Luigi Ontani. Ontani and Corte belonged to different generations but shared a common sensitivity and culture; they developed a friendship that inspired Ontani to write a presentation in the form of a poem of Corte’s first solo exhibition in Rome, at the Planita gallery in 1989.

Enrico Corte Net Worth

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

Enrico Corte (born June 21, 1963) is an Italian contemporary artist. He works in painting, sculpture, drawing, video art and photography. His exhibitions often include multimedia installations that mix diverse genres and form relationships both with the surrounding area and the viewing public by means of ever-changing combinations. He has lived for extended periods of time in Rome, London, Berlin, Paris and New York, always immersing himself in the contemporary culture and assimilating the tensions of the metropolitan counter-cultures. His works can be found in both private and public collections in Europe and the USA.

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In 1999, Swiss critic Harald Szeemann, director of the 48 Venice Biennale, invited Corte and Nurcis to organize as an artist/curator a program within within the Oreste project in the Room A of the Italian pavilion. The name they gave to their specific project was “Orestecinema: networking as a privileged method.” The main topics dealt with the themes of international counterculture, creative hackering and political and cultural dissent. In addition to Room A of the Italian pavilion, Orestecinema expanded to other public spaces, including the Aula Magna of the Università Iuav di Venezia and the Chiostro of Tolentini, Venice. With the sponsorship of J. Walter Thompson, the two artists organized a series of film and video screenings and panel discussions between a number of international intellectuals, journalists, musicians, radio/television/theater directors, and the public of contemporay art. It put into practice Corte’s desire to escape the “self-indulgent individualism of the artist,” a stance Corte relates to the Gramscian school of thought. To secure the partecipation of three radio and television directors from the clandestine and main counter-information news station B92 in Belgrade – a city that at the time was at war – Corte had to seek diplomatic assistance from the Italian ambassador to Belgrade and financial support from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. The result was an exhibition that included a countercultural critique of Slobodan Milošević, his regime and the civil war underway the former Yugoslavia – just 200 kilometers from the Biennale. The press conference that followed, along with a number of interviews with guests of Orestecinema, were transcribed and published in the book “Oreste at the Venice Biennale.”

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Enzo Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Enrico Corte celebrates birthday on June 21 of every year.

In 2008, the monograph Enrico Corte – Spectrospective was published by Damiani, with a critical essay by art critic Gianluca Marziani. The volume, distributed internationally, can be found in the libraries of institutions such as Tate Gallery, Stanford University,Columbia University and the Pratt Institute in New York.