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ID: 500053941 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500053941			Record Type: Person

Fabro, Luciano (Italian sculptor, conceptual artist, and writer, 1936-2007)

Note: Fabro participated in the "Arte Povera-Im Spazio" show in Genoa in 1967. His early works in glass and steel ask questions about perceptual experience and relationships between individuals, geometry, and space. Fabro's famous "Piede" series (1968-1971) refute the simplistic description of Arte Povera as an art of poor materials. The feet, resembling the paws of mythological animals, are made of carved marble, polished bronze, or hand-blown glass; long tubes of fine silk top the feet and resemble legs. Their subject matter also refers to the Italy's artistic heritage. Another similar series of about the same time period consists of sculptures of the boot-shape of Italy in various materials. Other works used cloth as well, e.g. "Clothes-Hangers" (1976) and "Habitats" (1983). He turned to heavy stone pieces in the late 1980s; his "Double Face of the Sky" (1986) consists of a massive marbled-blue rock suspended by steel cable in such a way as to appear much lighter.

Names:
	Fabro, Luciano (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
	Luciano Fabro (V,display)

Nationalities:
	Italian (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	sculptor
	conceptual artist
	writer
	installation artist
	performance artist

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Turin (Torino province, Piedmont, Italy) (inhabited place) Died: Milan (Milano province, Lombardy, Italy) (inhabited place)

Events:

active:

Milan (Milano province, Lombardy, Italy) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

collaborated with ....	Nagasawa, Hidetoshi
................................	(Japanese architect, sculptor, and performance artist, 1940-2018, active in Milan) [500194966]

teacher of ....	Wijk, Famke van
..................	(Dutch sculptor, 1969-) [500530308]

worked with ....	Melani, Fernando
....................	(Italian sculptor, 1907-1985) [500356794]

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Persons, Artists

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Fabro, Luciano (I)

Biographies:

(Italian sculptor, conceptual artist, and writer, 1936-2007) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Italian artist, b.1936) ..... [BHA]
(Italian b.1936) ..... [GRLPA]
(Italian sculptor, born 1936) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(Italian artist, born 1936) ..... [AVERY]
(Italian sculptor, 1936-2007) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Italian artist, 1936-2007) ..... [MoMA]
(Italian sculptor, 1936-2007) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Fabro, Luciano ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred]
..............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
..............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..............................	Kennedy, Luciano Fabro, New York Times (2007)
..............................	RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
..............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 207353
..............................	Witt Library, Authority files
..............................	Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera [exhibition pamphlet] (2002)

Luciano Fabro ........	[CL-Courtauld, GRISC, MoMA, VP]
............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, VP]
	..........	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 19 Dec 2002
	..........	LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
	..........	Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera [exhibition pamphlet] (2002)

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