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 André
Gandolfo
I. Biography
GANDOLFO was born near Paris in
France in 1947.
As a young man he traveled a lot and spent a year in Tahiti.
A self-taught man and an seasoned individualist, he say this about
himself:
One goes to the University one can afford. Some people have their
own
University…
At my own School of Fine Arts, I learned how to sculpt when I was
about 9,
by carving tomahawks and jet planes out of wood off-cuts with a
penknife.
Such childlike games taught me the love and understanding of hidden
shapes.
Essentially present, they lay concealed but have a form of material
existence, not unlike the clouds that stage for us an infinity of
silhouettes. Since then I have never ceased…
A tightrope walker, I work balanced between the Figurative and the
Abstract.
Were it not for a nostalgia for technical performance the Figurative
would not have much significance for me now.
Prone to various excesses, the Abstract often shifts towards provocation
as its only means of expression.
I prefer an approach where themes and
subjects, which give the merest hints, are not so obtrusive that
they rob the visitor of this or her creativity.
►► Some
of the artist's artwork
Contact: a.gandolfo@wanadoo.fr
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