Luciano Castelli

b. 1951, Switzerland

Luciano Castelli (b. 1951, Lucerne) is a Swiss painter, printmaker, photographer, sculptor and musician. He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Lucerne and trained as a sign painter. In 1972 he took part in documenta 5 in Kassel as one of its youngest participants. In the 1970s he made androgynous photographic self-portraits. In 1978 he moved to Berlin, where, with the painters Salomé and Rainer Fetting, he became a representative of the expressive Neue Wilde painting, and with Salomé he co-founded the punk band Geile Tiere. In 1984 he received the Manor Art Prize. From 1989 he worked in Paris, where he developed his Revolving Paintings – pictures with no fixed top that can be turned through 360°.

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