Gianfranco Baruchello

Biography

(Livorno, 1924) is a unique figure on the Italian art scene, in dialogue with the international avant-gardes, including the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. In over 50 years of activity he has drawn, painted, written, and produced happenings, films and videos. After training in the Parisian atmosphere of nouveau réalisme, he went to New York, where he came into contact with abstract expressionism and pop art. His first solo show dates back to 1963, at Galleria La Tartaruga, also the year of his decisive meeting with Marcel Duchamp. Since 1963, the year in which he made Il grado zero del paesaggio,he has made over fifty films and videos; the best known on an international level remains La verifica incerta 1964–65, made with Alberto Grifi. In 2014–15 a retrospective of his work has been held at the Deichtorhallen Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, and ZKM, Karlsruhe.

Directed

1. Uncertain Verification (1965) — Director
2. Per una giornata di malumore nazionale (1969) — Director
3. Rules for Holocausts (1968) — Director
4. Ballade (1996) — Director
5. Cento donne viste dall'interno di un'automobile (1996) — Director
6. Non c'è (1996) — Director
7. Ai campi Elisi (1996) — Director
8. Quaranta immagini (1996) — Director
9. Sostanza e modo (1996) — Director
10. Retard (1996) — Director
11. Beaufort (1970) — Director
12. I giorni di Lun (1969) — Director
13. Limbosigne (1969) — Director
14. A Little More Paranoid (1969) — Director
15. LAP (1971) — Director
16. In Cold Fact (1968) — Director
17. In quarantasette secondi (1969) — Director
18. Peep Sea Show (1971) — Director
19. Pietro Bessone e Renato Ghittoni, due gemme della lotta di liberazione (1970) — Director
20. A partire dal dolce (1979) — Director
21. Forced to Disappear (1968) — Director
22. Never Happened (1969) — Director
23. Inventario di Ottobre 1976 (1996) — Director
24. Perforce (1968) — Director
25. Complement of Guilt (1968) — Director
26. La degringolade (1970) — Director
27. Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante (1969) — Director
28. Filming Man Ray (1990) — Director
29. Filming Marcel Duchamp — Director
30. The coefficient. The garden as a joint agent — Director
31. Caro Trigon (1973) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2020) — Self - Artist
2. A partire dal dolce (1979) — Self
3. Per una giornata di malumore nazionale (1969)
4. Forced to Disappear (1968)
5. Ritratto di Gianfranco Baruchello