Afro, l'itinerario astratto
works 1948-1975
Exhibition Catalogue
Afro, l’itinerario astratto. Opere 1948-1975, curated by Luciano Caramel, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, 7 October - 19 November 1989, catalogue, texts by Luciano Caramel, Giorgio Cortenova, Fabrizio D’Amico and Erich Steingräber, catalogue of the works and biography by Francesco Tedeschi, technical sheets by Francesco Sandroni
Hardback
Size 27,5 x 23,5 x 2 cm
48 ill. col., 202 ill. b/w
200 pages
Nuove Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, Milan, 1989
ISBN 88-202-0900-4
Exhibitions with artworks of Afro Basaldella
Artist
He was born in Udine in 1912. In 1950 he stayed in New York and began his collaboration with the dealer Catherine Viviano. Present at the exhibitions of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh and at the first edition of Documenta, in 1956 he won the prize for best Italian artist at the Venice Biennale. His mural Il giardino della speranza (The Garden of Hope) for the Unesco headquarters in Paris dates from 1958.
