[PDF] Expo Luciano Castelli par Vincent simon - France

Who is Luciano Castelli?

Luciano Castelli (born 28 September 1951 in Lucerne) is a Swiss painter, graphic artist, photographer, sculptor and musician. Luciano Castelli visited the preliminary course of the School of Applied Arts where he studied with Max von Moos. Then he learned signwriting and became in the early 1970s the key figure in Lucerne's Bohemia.

What was the cover picture of Luciano Castelli?

In addition to "Luciano Castelli I", "At Luciano's House" and "Marina making up Luciano", it was mainly "Medici", a group portrait of "the long-haired freaks around the shrill painter Luciano Castelli" that became the "cover picture of Harald Szeemann's documenta 5".

Did Luciano Castelli play Stephan Eicher?

1985 Luciano Castelli portrayed musician Stephan Eicher for the cover of the LP I Tell This Night. In 2011, the Gertsch Portrait "Luciano 1" was sold at an auction by Sotheby's at a price of 2.3 million Swiss francs.

What influenced Carlo Castelli?

Castelli’s androgynous self-styling was influenced by the aesthetics of Glam Rock, but then he began to fathom other roles like the young conservative, the movie star or the sadomasochist. 1978 Castelli went to Berlin and became part of the circle around the Galerie am Moritzplatz, to which he adapted with his expressive, fast painting.