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Item Number: 114685
Title: Il mezzo secolo di FRANCO BALAN : Peintre et graphiste 1957-2011
Author: Vierin, Laurent (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788837086718
Description: Milano: Electa, 2011. 29cm., hardcover, 283pp. illus., most in color. Multi-lingual text. Exhibition held at Centro Saint-Benin, Aosta. Summary: Franco Balan is an artist and, as such, he does not need only the scissors and colored paper he uses to make his posters to instill his subjects with natural gaiety or a pensive sideways stare. For this exhibition he has tried to create art using the myths and dramas of human history and the history of the ancient gods. And the dream he leads us into seems more real and surprising than ever. To celebrate his first 50 years of work he has opted not to stage a conventional, celebrative exhibition, with a formal "general catalog of works" but, since he is an obstinately active figure, not a boring collector of his own work but master of surprise, for the occasion he has prepared a dense, compact corpus of work, all of which refers to the so-called "low" cultures and to figurative popular repertoires, some of which are ethnic if not outright folk. An extraordinarily new, different book. Graphic designer by profession but with a natural flair for experimentation, during his long career he has contributed to national and international projects, without ever betraying his origins - the Roman archaeological remains of Aosta, and the valley's cultural and popular traditions -sometimes enhancing his personal baggage with not only graphic but also pictorial and design-oriented stimuli and nuances from beyond the Alps.
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