NOTES: Signed, dated and titled on the back
Certificate of authenticity by Fondazione Baruchello n. 160721174042
PUBLICATIONS/EXHIBITIONS: 1987, Milan, Baruchello. Faraone dei sentimenti, Galleria Milano, ill. in cat. p. 25
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Gianfranco Baruchello. Stylistic exercises
“Faraone dei sentimenti” (“Pharaoh of Feelings”) is the title of this work by Baruchello, made up of hieroglyphics, or rather “baruglifici”, as the artist called his symbols, with pataphisical irony.
For Gianfranco Baruchello, an experimenter with languages and images, styles and forms of communication, writer and painter, philosopher and director, the world is a place of impossible connections, of the infinitely small and the smallest details, of chaos in which surgical precision reigns, or vice versa. In which contradictions coexist as in a labyrinth of nonsense, of stylistic exercises. A game of sameness and repetition, of the same and the double, of unity as fragment and fragment as unity. His images are never unambiguous, they do not describe but suggest, they are constellations in which there is no centre or periphery, no top or bottom, but above all, there is no truth.