Luciano Bartolini was born in Fiesole on 23 September 1948. During his youth he didn’t study art, but he was mainly dedicated to the learning of different languages.
From 1971 he regularly traveled to the East, visiting India and Nepal. These trips will influence his works in a significant way. From 1973 to 1974 he created his first artworks, using in particular the wrapping paper. In 1974 Bartolini started his Kleenex series, works composed of common disposable paper handkerchiefs and often of important dimensions. Also in that year, this series was assembled in a first artist’s book titled Soft, where the Kleenex were disposed and glued on a simple support of colorful paper.
The paper was Bartolini’s material of choice. In this period he created his first Cartepaglie, artisanal paper on which he applied other layers of thin paper. In 1975 he held an important one-man show at the Francoise Lambert Gallery in Milan. In 1976 another solo show
at the Galleria Ferranti in Rome, an exhibition “I colori della pittura” at I.I.L.A. in Rome and an exhibition titled “Acquisiscoes recentes” at the Museu de Arte Contemporanea of São Paulo, Brazil. That same year he published another artist’s book titled Traces.
After the exhibition “Pensando all’Oriente” at the Francoise Lambert Gallery in Milan in 1977, Bartolini started introducing gold leaves in his work.
In 1977 he participated to the XIV Bienal de Arte Contemporanea of São Paulo and exhibited at the collective show “Bilder Ohne Bilder” at Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn. He created the installation The Pearl Mosque, which was presented the next year in the occasion of his solo show at the Paul Maenz Gallery in Cologne.
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GALLERY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1975
Galleria Françoise Lambert, Milan
1976
Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome
1977
Galleria Françoise Lambert, Milan
1978
Galleria Schema, Florence
Galerie Paul Maenz, Köln
1979
Galerie Michele Lachowsky, Bruxelles
Galleria Pasquale Trisorio, Napoli
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève
1980
Gallerie t’ Venster, Rotterdam
Galleria A.A.M., Rome
Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
1981
Galleria Françoise Lambert, Milan
Galerie Walter Storms, Munich
Galleria Ginevra Grigolo, Bologna
Villa Romana, Florence
1982
A Gallery, Amsterdam
Galleria Alberto Weber, Turin
A. Space, Toronto
Galerie Walter Storms, Villingen
1983
Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt
Galerie Beatrix Wilhelm, Stuttgart
Galerie Walter Storms, Munich
Galleria Pasquale Trisorio, Napoli
Galerie Fina Bitterlin, Basil
1984
Galleria Ginevra Grigolo, Bologna
Galleria Françoise Lambert, Milan
Galleria Arco d’Alibert, Rome
Sala d’Arme di Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
Galerie Fahneman, Berlin
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1985
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich
Galleria Piero Cavellini, Brescia
Galerie Beatrix Wilhelm, Stuttgart
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1974
“8 J. A.C. 74”, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, São Paolo
1975
“Per conoscenza”, Zona, Florence
1976
“Aquisições recentes”, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, São Paolo
“I colori della pittura”, I.I.L.A., Rome
1977
“032303”, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Montreal
“Chartae/Papeers”, Nino Soldano, Milan
“La contraddizione del segno”, Sala delle Colonne, Turin
“Senza relazione”, Palazzo Comunale, Acireale
XIV Bienal de Arte Contemporanea, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, São Paolo
“Bilder Ohne Bilder”, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
1978
“Radovi na papiru”, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Beograd
“In/visibile”, Artra Studio, Milano
“ Le figure del tempo”, Galleria de Foscherari, Bologna
“La metafisica del quotidiano”, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
“Françoise Lambert au C.I.C.”, C.I.C., Gent
“Factura”, Palazzo Comunale, Acireale
“Biennale della Grafica, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
“Livres d’Artistes”, Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles
1979
“De sensu rerum et magia”, Fabjbasaglia, Bologna
“Salon stellt vor”, Folkwang Museum, Essen
“Nouvelles tendences italiennes”, Centre Culturel, Macon
“Materiali/Memoria”, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
“Cento libri d’Artista”, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
“Le stanze del gioco”, Pinacoteca Comunale, Ravenna
“Printed Art”, M.o.M.A., New York
“L’ombra”, Casa del Mantegna, Mantova
1980
“I nuovi nuovi”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
“Fiat Lux”, Palazzo Comunale, Alessandria
“Nuova immagine”, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan
“Bookshow”, The Living Art Museum, Nylistasafnid
Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
“7 Juin 1980”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève
“Italian Wave”, Holly Solomon, New York
“Arte e critica 1980”, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
“Biennal de Jeunes”, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
“Après le Classicisme”, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, St. Etienne
“Magico Primario”, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara
