II FLOOR -
ROOM
3.12
materials and measurement
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Materials
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Iron, glass, paper, pumice in powder and stone
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Measurement:
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Variable Dimensions
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Achrome
1960
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1959
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Merda d’artista (n.63)
1961
Linea 15,81
1959
Fiato d'artista
1960
untitled
1962
Concetto Spaziale
1960
La barra d'aria
1969
/ 1996
Untitled
1960
Payload
1962
Calendar
1962
Untitled
1967
A De Chirico
1962
Do it yourself (Target)
1960
Untitled
1960
Place of Power III
1989
Place of Power I
1989
Untitled
1968
A line in Ireland
1974
Direzione
1966
- 1967
Untitled
1971
Raw/War
1970
L'incidente
1964
Frammenti di un autoritratto anonimo
1969
- 1970
Untitled
1966
Senza titolo (to Ileana and Michael Sonnabend)
1970
Azzurro, Oro
2001
Untitled (SOTTOSOPRA)
2000
Untitled
1968
Add
1968
Engagement
1968
Triumph of Galatea
1961
Spalding Soft Ball
1962
Untitled
1960
Untitled
1961
Untitled (Hammer)
1962
FOUR CHAIRS # 12
1962
Black Venus
1967
- 2008
JAW BROKEN OCHRE
2007
UNTITLED (BASKETBALL DRAWING)
2002
Rock Head
1998
INTERIOR WITH PAINTING OF TREES
1997
Meringue Chantilly
1962
Dessert on plate
1962
Bread on breadboard
1962
Vitello tonnato
1962
FALLING OMELETTE
1964
THIS IS ALL THAT REMAINS OF THE ORIGINAL STATUE
1974
Steel Channel
1968
Asta In Equilibrio
1970
Wolken
1970
Study for interior #2
1969
Untitled
1964
Untitles
1973
Map
1971
- 1973
The Story Of One Who Set Out To Study Fear
1982
Goya Series: so much and more
1997
Pompei Gourmet Kitchen Glut (Neapolitan)
1986
Terrae Motus
1981
Pittore di fuoco
1985
20 Aluminium Rectangle
2008
Above All Else
1991
Don’t think about it
2001
Our Spunk
1997
Untitled
1995
Schlafzimmer [Bedroom]
1975
Untitled
2005
Wound
1988
IN EXTREMIS VIII
1994
Study for a Fashion Plate (B)
1969
When Logics Die 212-214
1999
Aminabenzoyl Hydrazide
2008
Teapot
1979
Seascape: floating costume to drift for eternity III (Elvis suit)
1992
Bel canto
1987
BOY
1994
Girl
1994
OTTODROME, MANUAL A (TRIPTYCH)
1992
CREMASTER 4:3 LEGS OF MANN
1994
Uffizi
1989
Untitled
1984
ENGADIN II
2006
Portrait of a Young Woman with Child Full Length
1995
What We Want, Death Valley, T54
2002
- 2008
Magma
1985
- 1995
L'altra figura
1986
Scribbles
2012
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Ernesto Tatafiore
Robespierre
1980
Courtesy :
Courtesy of the artist
On display from 2009 to 2012 (April)
From the 1969 solo exhibition at the gallery of Lucio Amelio in Naples to one of the latest paintings in 2008, Robespierre per i napoletani ardenti del 1799, ("Robespierre for the
Neapolitan Revolutionaries of 1799"), the figure of Robespierre appears repeatedly in Ernesto Tatafiore's imagery. As a symbol of the incompatibility between the theoretical
virtue of Enlightenment Reason and the political use of Fear, Robespierre is the icon of an ambiguously contradictory revolution in human ideals and principles of government,
translated directly into the ambiguity of the elements and materials used: drawing on pieces of paper cut out and superimposed to compose not the powerful figure of a hero but the silhouette of a puppet held upright by a thread, despite the display of two large red wings of vitality, which seem to give him the power to fly high above the cube-shaped stage which encloses him.
Ernesto Tatafiore
Napoli 1943
Born at Marigliano in the province of Naples in 1943. He approached painting through the artistic activities of his uncle Guido (1919-80) and his father, a doctor and ...
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