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Biography of Alfredo Billetto
Alfredo Billetto was born in Turin in 1932 where he still lives and works today. He traveled and stayed for long periods in Spain, Holland, East Africa and France, culturally integrating his experiences to enrich his own work in which he alternates formal and pictorial plastic research with graphics.
A solitary and meditative artist, he has always sought and favored a "precise and essential language" in his artistic research, which has resulted in works that cannot be linked to any particular trend.
Today, Alfredo Billetto produces abstract works that use the immediate gesture, trying to preserve himself from all forms of influence.
Since the beginning of the 1960s, he has been invited to participate in many important nationall and international artistic events. Personal exhibitions are regularly organized in Italy and abroad; his works are part of many collections of various foreign museums. In 1978, an important retrospective exhibition of the artist was organized in Turin by the Piedmont Region; Mario De Micheli, the famous Italian critic, noted in his work a variety of languages: expressionism, cubism, hyper-realism, pop, informal. Billetto's work is solely and strictly pictorial. Forms and spaces, surfaces and rhythms, will be used in chromatic relations more purified with the passing of time, luminous, with a minimum of vibrations of the matter, ethereal veils of color, delicate and haunting, and transparencies.
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
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To read from or about the artist :
* « Panorama della giovane pittura italiana », catalogue d'exposition collective, Ed. E. I.D.A.C., Milan, 1962.* « 129° Esposizione Arti Figurative », catalogue d'exposition collective, Ed. Promotrice delle Belle Arti al Valentino, Turin, 1971.
* « Alfredo Billetto », catalogue de l'exposition de l'artiste, Mario De Micheli, Aldo Viglione, Giunta regionale del Piemonte, Turin, 1978.
* « Alfredo Billetto », catalogue de l'exposition de l'artiste, Galleria Davico, Turin, 1983.
* « Alfredo Billetto », catalogue de l'exposition de l'artiste, Galleria Tuttagrafica, Turin, 1992.
* « Vita di forme nello spazioo-colore », catalogue de l'exposition de l'artiste, Francesco De Bartolomeis, Galleria Arteregina, Turin, 2002.
* « Alfredo Billetto », catalogue de l'exposition de l'artiste, Galleria Biasutti, Turin, 2004.
* « Alfredo Billetto », in revue Rivista 20 n°8, Ed. Centro Culturale Ariele, mars-avril 2015.
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- + NON FIGURATIVE ART / 1942-1975 / Jean Bertholle, André Beaudin, Jeannie Dumesnil, Hanna Ben-Dov, Elvire Jan, Charles Lapicque, etc.
- + ARTISTS OF TODAY / XXth century /
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