Gillo Dorfles Biography
Gillo Dorfles, born in Trieste in 1910 was an Italian painter and art critic.
He was one of the most multifaceted personalities in the world of art and contemporary culture. After experiencing a very productive creative phase, he decided to dedicate himself to aesthetic studies and art criticism, delving into the problem of the avant-garde, the relationship between art and industry and the phenomenon of taste in modern society. According to his vision, aesthetics encompasses the entire culture and encompasses fantastic, symbolic, metaphorical and mythical elements. Among his most important works we can mention "Modern architecture" of 1954, "The Kitsch" of 1968, "The fashion of fashion" of 1984, "The daily fetish" of 1988 and "Horror pleni. The (in) civilization of noise" in 2008. In 2015, he was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
He participated in the first Italian exhibition of abstract art in Milan in 1945 and in 1948 he was one of the founders of the Movement for Concrete Art (MAC). His artistic production has been exhibited in various places. In 1986, in Milan, at the Studio Marconi, his poems, prose writings, pictorial and graphic works were presented. In 1988, the artist's first anthology was organized in Aosta, at the Torre del Lebbroso. In 2010, on the occasion of his hundredth birthday, an exhibition entitled “Gillo Dorfles. The avant-garde betrayed”. Among the most recent exhibitions, we can mention “Gillo Dorfles. Kitsch - Kitsch today” (Triennale di Milano, 2012), or “Gillo Dorfles. Yesterday and today” (Marconi Foundation of Milan, 2014) and “Being in time” (National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, 2015).
Gilles Dorfles passed away in Milan in 2018.
