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until 01.11. | #4779ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from Wednesday, 10. September 2025 a Solo-exhibition by the artist Ernesto Tatafiore.
Ernesto Tatafiore was born in Naples in 1943. He took part in the 1970 Venice Biennale, again in 1980 and 1990, and has worked closely with Jannis Kounellis since 1971. From 1975, repeated exhibitions at Lucio Amelio, one of the leading international avant-garde galleries of the time. Among others, 1981 exhibition there with Joseph Beuys, Tony Cragg, Mimmo Paladino, David Salle; 1984 (in the Villa Campolieto) with Richard Long, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol. In addition, further early groundbreaking gallery exhibitions, for example at isy Brachot Paris, An-dré Emmerich New York, Lisson Gallery London, Paul Maenz Köl.
Tatafiore distanced himself from the Italian Arte Povera and Transavanguardia movements, with which he initially had points of contact. He developed his forms of expression early on, working with different techniques and materials, the combination of painting and drawing, collage and object-like sculptures, the subversive approach. The theme of the French Revolution is essential, which for the artist “represents a kind of ‘great metaphor'” (Jean-Christophe Ammann) and expands into a comprehensive view of history as allegory.
Robespierre toujours, 1970, Bleistift auf Japanpapier, 20 x 27 cm
1980-1981 Participation in the exhibition on contemporary Italian art at the Kunsthalle Basel, the Museum Folkwang Essen and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, with catalogue. Museum exhibitions, including 1982 at the Kunstmuseum Luzern (catalogue, several specialist contributions); 1985 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York (with the drawings); 1993 at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (catalogue ed. by Lorand Hegyi, numerous specialist contributions); 2005 at the Museo Capodimonte in Naples “Non solo”, with catalogue; 2009 in Reggia di Caserta under the title “I maestri di Terrae Motus” – as a universal metaphor for the abysses of history and its personnel, told in wonderfully light images.
Opening: Wednesday, 10. September 2025, 12 am. – 6 pm.
Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 10. September until Saturday, 01. November 2025
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Title image caption: English Garden, 1998, Acryl auf Fabriano, 168 x 234 cm
Exhibition Ernesto Tatafiore – Galerie Dittmar | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
