News — Alfano

On May 22, 1932, Carlo Alfano was born in Naples. Following his education at the local Academy of Fine Arts, he developed into a painter and a notable figure in intermedial art. His artistic inquiry was driven by a rigorous effort to visualize the unrepresentable through fragmentation and decomposition, a pursuit that earned him a reputation as an explorer of shards and remnants. Central to his philosophy was the concept of self-representation as a bridge between subjective experience and the objective universe. His body of work consistently interrogates the nature of representation, the process of painting itself, and, more profoundly,...