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Luis Frangella
1944–1990
Luis Frangella (1944-1990) was born in Buenos Aires in 1944. He began to paint in the mid-1970's during a fellowship to the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. He moved to New York City in 1976, and in the early 1980's he helped to organize some of the first exhibitions at Limbo, an artists' after-hours club known for its art shows and film screenings. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982.
Equally at ease with painting and sculpture, Mr. Frangella could also alternate between extreme delicacy and robust muscularity. His 1984 exhibition at the Civilian Warfare gallery in the East Village featured expressionistic paintings executed on old car doors that seemed to sum up the rough-edged styles of many East Village artists.
In the late 1980's, Mr. Frangella had two shows at the Julian Pretto Gallery in SoHo and exhibited regularly in galleries in Buenos Aires and in Spain in Barcelona and Madrid.
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LUIS FRANGELLA
Nace en Buenos Aires, el Julio de 1944.
Obtiene la Beca del IASTE (International Association Exchange Students), 1968.
Estudios superiores: UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Master en Arquitectura, 1970.
Trabaja en colaboración con C. Testa y F. Bullrich para el concurso de la Embajada Argentina en Asunción, Paraguay, y en Brasilia, con el cual obtienen el primer premio.
Obtiene la Beca de la UBA para estudios de investigación visual en urbanización, 1971.
Obtiene la Beca del MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology), trabajos de investigación para el Center for Advanced Visual Studies, 1973-1976.
Reside en Nueva York a partir de 1976. Comienza un micro emprendimiento junto a Russell Sharon, donde confeccionan carteras y bolsos con formas de animales.
Obtiene la Beca Guggenheim, 1982.
Muere en Nueva York, el 7 de Diciembre de 1990.
EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES
1976 Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, Mass
1981 Galería Buades, Madrid
Galería Ciento, Barcelona
1982 Galería Alberto Elía, Buenos Aires
Parallel Window, Nueva York
1983 Hal Bromm Gallery, Nueva York
Limbo Lounge, Nueva York
Rockola, Madrid
1984 Galería Ciento, Barcelona
Galería del Retiro, Buenos Aires
Bar- Bar, Estocolmo
Civilian Warfare Gallery, Nueva York
1985 Civilian Warfare Gallery, Nueva York
Hal Bromm Gallery, Nueva York
1986 Galería Buades, Madrid
Civilian Warfare Gallery, Nueva York
Eaton- Shoen Gallery, San Francisco
1987 Galería Ciento, Barcelona
Galería Masha Prieto, Madrid
Studio Corrado Levi, Milán
Hal Bromm Gallery, Nueva York
Art Basel 87, stand Galería Buades
Galería del Retiro, Buenos Aires
1989 Galería Buades, Madrid
Julián Pretto Gallery, Nueva York
1990 Berland may Gallery, Nueva York
Gracie Mansión Gallery, Nueva York
Interamerican Art Gallery, Miami
Dade Community College
1993 Centro per l’Arte Contemporánea Luigi
Pecci, Prato (Italia)
1998 Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires
2000 Homenaje 10 años de su muerte, Galería Buades, Madrid
EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS
1956 Cerámicas, Galería Alcora de Alberto Larco, Galerías Pacífico, Buenos Aires
1971 Figuras en cartón, con Daniel Isla Casares, Grupo Charcas, de Celina Arauz de Pirovano
1974 Projected Images, con Maryanne Amacher, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1975 Boston Celebrations, con Russell Sharon, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass
1976 Lecture on the Weather, con John Cage y Maryanne Amacher
Performances: York University, Toronto
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo
Beethoven Halle, Boon, California, Institute for the Arts, L.A.
1977 Nuevo grabado y dibujo, primer premio Marcelo de Ridder, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
1978 Three Painters, Space of 82 Duane Street, Nueva York
Variations on Latin American Themes, Center for Interamerican Relations, Nueva York
Esculturas “Guality of life”, primer premio, Cambridge, Mass
1979 Dibujo argentino, CAYC, Buenos Aires
1980 Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, Nueva York
1+1=1, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Double visions, Museum of Holography, Nueva York
1981 Empty Words, con John Cage, Hartford
1982 Pintura Fresca, Galería del Buen Ayre, Buenos Aires
Dípticos, Galería Ciento, Barcelona
Mixed Bag, Alternative Museum, Nueva York
1983 Objeto de Objeto, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
The Ritz, Washington, DC
Dancetería, Nueva York
ARCO, Stand Galería Ciento, Madrid
New Talent, Hal Bromm Gallery, Nueva York
Pier 34 Show, Nueva York
The Rules of the Game, con Russell Sharon y John Duffy, Manhattan Borough Presidents offices, Nueva York
Aún la Pintura, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
Acid Paintings, con David Wojnarowicz, Limbo Lounge, Nueva York
La Nueva Generación, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Postcard Show, ABC no Río, Nueva York
The Wild West Show, Piezo Electric Gallery, Nueva York
Terminal Show, Brooklyn, Nueva York
Contemporary Latin American Art, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk
Twenty Artists, Sensory Evolution, Nueva York
A More Store, Jack Tilten Gallery, Nueva York
East Village Art, Niveau Gallery, Nueva York
Prime Cuts, Nine Gallery, Nueva York
1984 Antipasto, Kamikaze, Nueva York
A More Store, Jack Tilten Gallery, Nueva York
New York New, 26 Artists, Corrado Levi Studio, Milán
Limbo’s Urban Jungle Sculpture, Nueva York
New Art, New York, Civilian Warfare, Chicago
Set For an Intermediate Station, by John Duffy, Village
Performers Theatre, Nueva York
Summer Sculpture Show, New Math Gallery, Nueva York
Performance at the Factory, by Mike Bidlo, PS 1, Nueva York
Portrait Show, PS 1, Nueva York
Six Argentine Artists, George Washington University, Washington DC
African Abstracts, Discoteca, Nueva York
Science Projects, Discoteca, Nueva York
Argentinos en Nueva York, Galería Alberto Elía, Buenos Aires
Machine Language, Discoteca, Nueva York
The East Village Scene, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia
Neo York, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, Ca.
Expressions New York, American Center, Paris/ Nueva York
New Figure Drawings: Latin American Artists, Wolfsen Gallery, Miami Dade Community
College, Miami, Florida
Fisher Gallery, University of California, LA, Ca
1985 Graffiti and East Village, Librizzi Gallery, Nueva York
New Talent Painting, Eaton/ Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
Installation at Bonwit Teller, con Keiko Bonk, Nueva York
E.V. Orchestra, Limbo y Discoteca, Nueva York
57 Between A and D, Holly Solomon Gallery, Nueva York
New Painting, Hal Bromm Gallery
New Forms of Figuration, Center for Interamerican Relations, Nueva York
New Sculpture, Hal Bromm Gallery, Nueva York
Drawing the figure, Hal Bromm Gallery, Nueva York
Picture Frame Frame Picture, Gabrielle Breyers, Nueva York
Anni Ottanta, Museo del Arte, Bologna, Italia
Summershow, Birmingham, Michigan, Suzanne Hilberry Gallery
Avenue C by the Sea, Tower Gallery, South Hampton
Infierno, discoteca Cemento, Buenos Aires
Set for His Master’s Voice, discoteca Limelight, Nueva York.
1986 INTER ARTE, stand de Galería Buades, Valencia
The Parallel Window, Nueva York
Painting and Sculpture today, Indianópolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Statue of Liberty, Barney´s, Nueva York
01, con Keiko Bonk, Hollywood
Fashion Moda Benefit, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Nueva York
Senza Paura, Wessel O’Connor, Roma
Feria de Arte de Colonia, stand de Galería Ciento
Miami Biennial, Miami
Il Cangiante, PAC, Milán
Set for An Intermediate Station, de John Duffy, Nueva York.
Mural Kamikaze, Nueva York
1987 Bárbara Green Gallery, Miami
New Jersey Museum, New Jersey
Perdurabo, Bart College, Nueva York
Papeles, Galería Buades, Madrid
1988 Art Basel 88, stand Galería Buades
1989 Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
Gallery 91, Nueva York
Ram Scale, Nueva York
ARCO, stand Galería Buades, Madrid
1990 Rockland Center for the Arts, Nueva York
Salón de los 16, MEAC, Madrid
ARCO, stand Galería Buades, Madrid
1991 ARCO, stand Galería Buades, Madrid
1993 ARCO, stand Galería Buades, Madrid
Toros por la Gran Vía, Galería Buades, Madrid
1996 Variantes de la Figuración en Argentina, con Alonso, Berni, Bianchedi, Eckell,
Gorriarena, Noé, Robirosa, Testa, Uriburu. Fundacion Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires
OBRAS EN ESPACIOS PUBLICOS
1985 8BC Head, Lower east Side, Nueva York.
1986 Cabeza, vereda peatonal, nueva York
Mini Golf Hole, de Carlo McCormick, Palladium, Nueva York