Croce Taravella (born 1964 in

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) is an

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Biography

Croce Taravella was born in 1964 in

, in the

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on the island of

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. Taravella studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo ( Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo). Between 1983 and 1984, curator and art dealer

Lucio Amelio Lucio Amelio (13 September 1931 – 2 July 1994) was an Italian art dealer, curator, and actor. For decades he contributed to make Naples an international art centre encouraging the dialogue between European and American contemporary arts. Bio ...

, who introduced Taravella to members of the

transavanguardia Transavantgarde or Transavanguardia is the Italian version of Neo-expressionism, an art movement that swept through Italy and the rest of Western Europe in the late 1970s and 1980s. The term ''transavanguardia'' was coined by the Italian art criti ...

, as well as

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Robert Rauschenberg Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...

Nino Longobardi Nino Longobardi (born 1953) is an Italian artist, known for painting and sculpture. Biography Nino Longobardi was born on 30 November 1953 in Naples, Italy. He was primarily a self taught artist. In 1968, Longobardi met curator and art dealer L ...

, and

Mimmo Paladino Mimmo Paladino (born Paduli, 18 December 1948) is an Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker. He is a leading name in the Transvanguardia artistic movement and one of the many European artists to revive Expressionism in the 1980s. Biography ...

. In the 1990s he moved to

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where he worked as a production designer for

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. In 2011, he participated in the Italian Pavilion curated by

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at the 54th

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Bibliography

* Eva Di Stefano, ''Croce Taravella: Opere 1983-2004'', Falcone,

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, 2004. 978-8888335100

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Croce Taravella
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