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Gianfranco Baruchello’s Infinite Small Systems

June 30, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 5 Comments

Gianfranco Baruchello was born in Livorno in 1924. Throughout his artistic career he explored several media, from painting to drawing, photography, video, theatre and performances. In 1973, the artist founded an agricultural company, Agricola Cornelia S.p.A a political happening aiming to explore the relationships between the value of the artistic and the agricultural product and to investigate the concept of work and how the economical laws regulate it.

His paintings and drawings are fragmented in series of small elements, almost miniatures, connected one another to form a non-linear narrative. Naïve and ermetic at the same time, the canvases are mostly large blank surfaces punctuated with visual annotations and short texts, montages which explore processes and map ideas.

Little galaxies of painted episodes are extrapolated from different realities, from history, natural processes, contemporary events and onirical visions and placed in relationship one another to form unpredictable patterns.
The artist imagines and designs what he defines as “small systems” created in order to contrast the big systems of idealogy and politics.

 

 

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Agricola Cornelia -1 (© Baruchello, ZKM)

 

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Agricola Cornelia -2 (© Baruchello, ZKM

 

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How to survive (© Baruchello, ZKM

 

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Impudique Venus (© Baruchello, ZKM

 

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Interpretacion del preambulo (© Baruchello, ZKM

 

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Intorno ad alcuni Duchamp -1 (© Baruchello, ZKM

 

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Intorno ad alcuni Duchamp -2 (© Baruchello, ZKM

 

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The Brain, 1 (2012) (© Baruchello, Massimo de Carlo)

 

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The Brain, 2 (2012) (© Baruchello, Massimo de Carlo)

 

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Moral – Infrasottile (2006) (© Baruchello, Massimo de Carlo)

 

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Nessun Limite (2006) (© Baruchello, Massimo de Carlo)

 

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Fauste Nozze di Curculionidi (1991) (© Baruchello, Massimo de Carlo)

 

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Dal Nord (1991) (© Baruchello, Massimo de Carlo)

 

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Dillo tu, Casimir Severinovitch (1985) (© Baruchello, Massimo de Carlo)

 

 

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La Grande Biblioteca (1975) (© Baruchello, Massimo de Carlo)

 

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Maremoto nell’arcipelago (1973)

 

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Diego Kid al servizio di sua maestà

 

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Cavalli docili, resi noncuranti

 

Further readings:

(in Italian) Interview with Gianfranco Barruchello on Flashart

(in Italian) Introduzione a Baruchello (an article by Tommaso Tini, on DATA #14)

Gianfranco Baruchello. Certain Ideas (an exhibition at ZKM)

Images courtesy of ZKM (Gianfranco Baruchello: Certain Ideas) and Massimo de Carlo

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Comments

  1. pvaureli says

    July 1, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    un artista straordinario e importantissimo, forse uno dei pochi ad aver articolato il nesso arte e politica in modo serio e rigoroso. sopratutto nei film come verifica incerta un capolavoro stracopiato in modo vergognoso senza però capire l’intento critico del film. quando c’è stata la mostra a roma qualche anno fa ci andai cinque volte ed era sempre vuota. Bravi a pubblicare il suo lavoro.

  2. fosco lucarelli says

    July 6, 2015 at 7:22 pm

    Caro PV,
    in effetti conosciamo Baruchello solo da poco tempo, ma abbiamo intenzione di ritornare presto sul suo lavoro, in particolare su Agricola Cornelia SPA, una delle ultime Gesamtkunstwerke, lavoro che è oggi incredibilmente quasi sconosciuto.

    Nei limiti del nostro sito e del numero limitato dei nostri lettori, cercheremo con piacere di rendere il giusto merito a questo artista straordinario.
    Grazie e a presto,
    FL, MBF

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  3. reduces work productivity says:
    May 6, 2019 at 11:42 am

    five card

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