劳迪奥·帕米吉安尼

Claudio Parmiggiani

劳迪奥·帕米吉安尼1943出生于意大利。

Claudio Parmiggiani was born in Luzzara. He studied at the Modena Istituto di Belle Arti an frequented Giorgio Morandi's studio in Bolgna ( 1959-1961). He lives in Torrechiara ( Parma ). For over forty years Claudio Parmiggiani has been making fire and earth, air and smoke, wood and stone sing. His sculptures are of shadow, as George Didi Huberman defined them: figurations in which the bodies and objects, the whole universe of life, in short, is evoked in absentia. It is an art of subtraction, an ascetical rarefaction, engaged in explicit dispute with the deafening worldliness of today's narcissistic “art system”.This art always avoids the gap, of the purely intellectual game: the disappearance staged by Parmiggiani always has something traumatic about it , often alluding to the piercing loss of people and things that have “emigrated” that have swept away by wind, burned by the fire of history. It is an exquisitely, sometimes brutally, material art, but which still retains the longing for a transcendent dimension, for something indefinite that is not of this world, for the “spirituality of art”. It is definitely a religious art but cannot be reduced to orthodoxies of any kind: a faith in nothing, but a total faith is precisely how the artist describes himself .

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