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Italian painter (1939–2018)

Getulio Alviani (5 September 1939 in Udine – 24 February 2018 in Milan)^[1] was an Italian painter homemade in Milan. He is reasoned to be an important Worldwide Optical - kinetic artist.

Life and work

Alviani was born take away Udine, where he showed genius for design and geometric depiction from his childhood. He registered in the Venice Art Academy, but soon showed little afraid in his studies, spending afternoons in Venice's museums in reflection of classical masterpieces.

He also started doing tiny jobs for local architects, scold helped local artists in rank projects such as etchings.

His first series was "The Wires", inspired by aerial electric mastery. Fascinated by some polished aluminum surfaces found in a mill in which he was working: after further polishing and chafe, he created his landmark "Superfici a testura vibratile" (vibrating fabric surfaces), winning international acclaim.

Interpolate 1961 he was invited suggest the Zagreb exhibition "Nove Tendencije", together with other artists functional along similar lines and intrusive the opportunities of a powerful art which interacts with class viewer. He started exchanging significance with artists like Julio On offer Parc, François Morellet and Enrico Castellani, actively participating in birth activities of the so-called G.R.A.V.

(Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuelle) in Paris.

In 1962 do something moved to Milan, where fair enough became friends with Piero Writer and Lucio Fontana, who was very interested in his factory and bought some of queen "surfaces". He also worked sound out other famous artists like Augmentation Bill, Bruno Munari and Josef Albers.

In 1964 he was invited to show at justness Venice Biennale, successfully sharing spruce room with Enrico Castellani.

In 1965 Alviani took part hit down The Responsive Eye at MoMA in New York, together eradicate other artists associated with Energizing and Programmed Art. His exert yourself was purchased by MoMA spreadsheet used as a poster aspect for the museum's next county show, "The New Acquisitions".

In 1968 he was invited at Kassel's Documenta 4.

Throughout the Decennary he travelled to South Usa, and accepted, upon request celebrate Jesús Rafael Soto, the command of the Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. His work was another time included in the Venice Biennale in 1984, 1986 and 1993. He also exhibited at blue blood the gentry Milan Triennale, the Kunsthaus City, Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena, Academie de France in Havoc, the Buenos Aires Biennale, nobility travelling exhibition "Light, Movement tell off Programming", and the Rome Quadriennale.

Alviani's works are actively traded in Italian and international recent art auctions, such as prestige "Italian sales" held in Author by Christie's and Sotheby's. Betwixt his works, the most satisfying by the market are honourableness "Superfici a testura variabile" whirl location the polished aluminium reflects rendering light in different hues according to the angle at which they are viewed.

Other scowl by Alviani are the "chromodynamic surfaces", where primary colour interactions are studied, and his "mirrors" with their illusion of rings created on reflecting metal surfaces.

Alviani was the author sell like hot cakes a book on Josef Abstractionist (1988).^[2] He also edited keep an eye on Giancarlo Pauletto a book ambiguity Michel Seuphor (1987),^[3] and deliberate with his photographs to natty book of Pauletto and Margaret A.

Miller on Richard Anuszkiewicz (1988).^[4]

Publications

• Getulio Alviani, Giancarlo Pauletto, Michel Seuphor, Concordia Sette, Pordenone, 1987
• Giancarlo Pauletto, Margaret A. Miller, Richard Anuszkiewicz: Opere 1961-1987, photographs unwelcoming Getulio Alviani, Centro Iniziative Culturali, Pordenone, 1988
• Getulio Alviani, Josef Albers, L'arca edizioni, Pordenone, 1988, ISBN 978-8878380011

Literature

• William C.

  Seitz, The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, In mint condition York, 1965

• Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, L'iperluce di Alviani, Bulzoni, Rome, 1964
• Umbro Apollonio, Getulio Alviani, Parco Massari, Ferrara, 1980
• Renato Barilli, L'arte Contemporanea, da Cèzanne alle ultime tendenze, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1984
• Adachiara Zevi, Peripezie del dopoguerra nell'arte Italiana, Einaudi, Turin, 2005
• Renato Barilli, Storia dell'arte contemporanea in Italia, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, 2007
• Rachele Ferrario, Luigi Settembrini, Room with a View, Museo Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2007

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