Ele D'Artagnan - "An Italian Outsider"
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PERSONAL EXPOSITION OF ELE D'ARTAGNAN IN FRANKFURT
Friends and supporters of Ele D'Artagnan Brazilian Project at I.C.B.I.E., you are all invited to the exposition of his artworks at the Heussenstamm Galerie of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. There will be 10 days of events going on from the 7th till 18th November: Paintings, Music, Dancing, Italian and Brazilian food, products, videos and photos!
For more details check out our facebook page and http://www.italianoutsider.de/.
HEUSSENSTAMM GALERIE - Braubachstrasse 34 - www.heussenstamm.de
Happy Christmas from Heussenstamm-Galerie
HEUSSENSTAMM GALERIE - Braubachstrasse 34 - www.heussenstamm.de
Paris
Hôtel du Duc
22 rue de la Michodière
75002 Paris, France
Hours:
Thursday, October 20th: Early Access & Vernissage 2:00 - 10:00 pm
Friday, October 21st: 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 22nd: 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Sunday, October 23rd: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Ele D'Artagnan
Italian, 20th century.
Born 1911, in Venice, Italy; died 1987, in Rome.
D'Artagnan (né Michele Lombardi-Toscanini), a trained actor, self-taught artist, and vagabond extraordinaire who floated in and out of the Italian Surrealist scene, made drawings employing a cosmic sexuality and psychedelic line that anticipate the vital work by numerous young artists today. D'Artagnan's libidinally charged drawings had, for the most part, never previously been publicly exhibited before his first exhibition in 2003 at KS Art; five of these drawings were recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.
A steamer trunk full of approximately 400 of D'Artagnan's works was unearthed for the first time from a wine cave in Testaccio several years ago, the same gypsy neighborhood in Rome where D'Artagnan last lived - and where Fellini frequently filmed. D'Artagnan's artistic scrapbook, also in the trunk, pictures him in photographs throughout the years with Dali, de Chirico, Gina Lollobrigida, and many others. Ele D'Artagnan's work suggests the cosmic vitality of a lost era, while simultaneously evoking an uncanny affinity with recent artistic directions.
- Courtesy of KS Art, New York
ELE D'ARTAGNAN
in a collective show
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June 7th - 9th September 2016
TOGETHER WITH ELE D'ARTAGNAN THERE ARE ARTWORKS BY:
Judith Bernstein, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Leidy Churchman, Ele D’Artagnan, Valie Export, Guerrilla Girls, Anthea Hamilton, Lena Henke, Sanya Kantarovsky, Lee Lozano, Margherita Manzelli, Carol Rama, Anicka.
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Ele D’Artagnan
Exposition of Drawings
at KERRY SCHUSS GALLERY NYC
opening: Friday, February 5, 6 - 8pm
KERRY SCHUSS
34 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
T: 212 219 9918
info@kerryschuss.com
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Ele D'Artagnan Chicago
A casual gathering of food and drink in honor of Pietro Gallina, founder of I.C.B.I.E in Salvador, Bahia.
Sunday, September 20 6:30-11pm at the home of Katherine Desjardins.
Lost photo found!
A lost photo of Ele D’Artagnan was found. The photo shows Pietro Gallina and Ele D’Artagnan in Testaccio in Rome in 1983.
NEMO PROFETA IN PATRIA - PROGETTO ELE D'ARTAGNAN
ELE D’ARTAGNAN
Nemo Profeta in Patria
PROPOSTA PER IL 55º FESTIVAL DEI DUE MONDI DI SPOLETO 29 GIUGNO 15 LUGLIO 2012
PROGETTO a cura di Pietro Gallina
mostra delle opere dell’attore-pittore Ele D’Artagnan (1911-1987)
Ele D’Artagnan
L’attore/pittore Ele D’Artagnan, in veritá Michele Lombardi Toscanini, nacque a Venezia il 13/11/1911 e
morì a Roma il 23/10/1987. È stato lasciato dalla madre sin da bambino in un orfanotrofio. La sua strana storia in mezzo e ai margini della “Dolce Vita” di Roma è dovuta al fatto di essere stato amico del regista Federico Fellini e di aver lavorato in cinque dei suoi film.
A Cinecittà (la Hollywood italiana), tra gli anni 50/60 fino agli anni 70, D’Artagnan ha partecipato a circa 40 film. Persona molto colta, ha frequentato il mondo artistico italiano tra Venezia, Milano e Roma conoscendo molte personalità famose della cultura europea come: Fellini, Salvador Dalì, il grande pittore metafisico De Chirico, Novella Parigini; attori come: Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Valter Chiari, Eva Vilma; musicisti come: Domenico Modugno, Mina. Amante della musica, suonava la tromba, per per questo nei suoi quadri sono sempre presenti elementi musicali.
Dopo la chiusura di Cinecittà, la grande industria del cinema italiano, D’Artagnan ha cominciato a dipingere quadri, e questo l’ha costretto a vivere in condizione di miseria.
Il progetto
“Ele D’Artagnana – nemo profeta in patria”, questo è il titolo del progetto che vogliamo dedicare alla forza vitale, ai colori, all’allegria e alla positività di questo grande artista che ha dedicato la sua vita all’arte.
Ele D’Artagnan, pittore, ha lasciato circa 500 dipinti: opere che non voleva nemmeno vendere per paura di buttare parte della sua vita. Nei suoi lavori lui usa una tecnica mista su materiali di scarto, come: legno, cartoline, cartoni, locandine ecc. È evidente che la sua arte può essere considerata naif, ma con influenza dei movimenti pittorici, come per esempio: Chagall, Mirò, Kandinskij e Dalì.
Ele D’Artagnan, attore, ha partecipato a 40 film, molti dei quali diretti da Federico Fellini, quali: Il Bidone, Amarcord, Casanova, La città delle donne.
Dopo il successo ottenuto in USA, Brasile, Olanda e Germania è il momento di dare anche in Italia spazio e visibilità alla vita e alle opere di ELE D’ARTAGNAN.
All’interno del MoMa di New York sono esposti 5 quadri di Ele D’Artagnan
Ele D’Artagnana – nemo profeta in patria, è:
1- esposizione delle opere pittoriche
2- retrospettiva cinematografica
3- esposizioni di fotografie
THE NYC METRO – SHOW
D'Artagnan centenary
Short films will be created in five different locations around the world on the 16th of December 2011 to celebrate the centenary of Ele D'Artagnan. Events will take place in the following places:
Lahn Artists in Limburg, Germany
Arps Gallery in Amsterdam
KS Art Gallery in New York
Private reception by the friends of ICBIE in Chicago
ICBIE in Salvador, Brazil
Flyer - English (.pdf)
Flyer - Portuguese (.pdf)
IL FOGLIO article on etiquette featuring Ele D'Artagnan
The Italian newspaper Il Foglio published an article on etiquette featuring Ele D'Artagnan
Article(pdf)
IL FOGLIO newspaper article on Ele D'Artagnan
The Italian newspaper Il Foglio published an article on the life of Ele D'Artagnan and the setting up of ICBIE
Article - Part 1 (pdf)
Article - Part 2 (pdf)
D’Artagnan Show for ICBIE Theater
Last night at the Mocobo Cultural Center in Rome, Pietro held a special private showing of selected artworks by Ele D’Artagnan (1911-1987), “the painter of the Dolce Vita,” in order to raise funds for the burgeoning ICBIE Theater Project. Besides original artworks, the show also contained beautiful life size reproductions of the D’Artagnan pieces that Pietro sold to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
Private show in Rome
TETRADACTILUS is bought by the New York Museum of Modern Art
A D’Artagnan work is now hanging in public display at the Museum of Modern Art! A new exhibition, ‘Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing,’ organized by Connie Butler (Chief Curator of Drawings for the Robert Lehman Foundation), has opened in the galleries of the museum’s drawing department, and it includes D’Artagnan’s TETRADACTILUS, one of the four works that the MOMA purchased in 2003. Click here to see this painting on the MOMA website
D’Artagnan Show in Amsterdam, June 4-10
A large part of the ICBIE’s financial support has come from the paintings of Ele D’Artagnan, the eccentric artist who befriended Pietro from earliest childhood. Pietro inherited all his works when the maestro died in 1987, and since then, he has worked to establish a posthumous reputation for him, as a precious testimonial of the Dolce Vita days of Cinecittà . The success of Pietro’s campaign culminated in the famous New York showing in 2003, when the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) grabbed a handful of the best paintings, causing their market value to skyrocket (and our ICBIE dreams to materialize).
In a few days, the most important showing of D’Artagnan art works ever held in Europe will take place in Amsterdam, thanks to the efforts of a wonderful lady named Ella Arps, who Pietro met in Salvador, where she was seeking to help the Alagados, the awful favelas built on stilts over the bay, about a mile away from the ICBIE. Their encounter began ICBIE’s rapport with the venerable capoeira master, Mestre Pedro, and led to Ella’s passion for D’Artagnan.
The Amsterdam show will be a week long festival held in various venues, under the august auspices of the Italian Cultural Institute, where, on June 7, Pietro Gallina will give a lecture, presenting his biography Ai margini della dolce vita: Il pittore/attore Ele D’Artagnan. The evening will also include the projection of D’Artagnan filmclips and a live concert dedicated to Nino Rota, Fellini’s musical alter-ego. On June 10, the Film Museum of the Vondelpark will show more D’Artagnan filmclips, together with integral projections of both Amarcord and the amazing short film Toby Dammit.
The Arps Gallery website has all the information about the exhibit in English. Just go to www.arpsgallery.com, and remember to tell your art-loving friends.