Antonio Recalcati (2 May 1938 – 4 December 2022) was an Italian painter and sculptor.

Biography

In 1960, Recalcati moved to

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and met the poet and critic

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, who first noticed his work. From 1960 to 1962, he exhibited his works in

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and

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, which gravitated informal space and ''Impronte''. In 1963, he moved to

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, where he met the painters Gilles Aillaud,

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, and Paul Rebeyrolle. In 1965, alongside Aillaud and Arroyo, he published a collective work titled '. The three painters documented the rise and imaginary fall of

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. During the 1970s, Recalcati's paintings tackled the themes of social commitment and repression in subject such as student struggles and the working class outskirts of large cities. Between 1965 and 1971, he took multiple trips to New York, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, and East Asia. In 1980, he moved to

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, where he lived until the summer of 1985. In 1990, he began working with ceramics following his stay in

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and manufactured a series of 656 vases. His portraits of imaginary New York City landscapes continued until the end of the 1980s with the series ''After Storm'', presented at the Galleria

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in Milan in 1988. In 1992, Recalcati began his career in sculpture while he was living in

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, producing a series of terracotta sculptures. However, he returned to painting in 1996 and produced a series of large canvasses while staying in Morocco. Antonio Recalcati died in Milan on 4 December 2022, at the age of 84.

References

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