Antonio Michelangelo Faggiano Biography
Antonio Michelangelo Faggiano (1946 - 2001), enrolled at the Faculty of Architecture in Milan where he did not graduate due to dissent and in 1975 he began his artistic journey with a floor installation dedicated to "Proustian desperation" in the Deambrogi gallery: he marks the demarcation of the sign unitary, which will accompany all its production. It draws from Joyce, Kafka, Lautréamont, Defoe, Carroll; texts read and translated on the walls, in the invention of an "expanded space". A research that culminated in 1978 with Impossible Cities which was followed by the imposing installation The Tower of Babel: soft and faded images, photocopied or drawn, collages of ideas, in which color makes its appearance, through a pastel retouching on an emulsified canvas base. It is in this period that Renato Barilli includes him in the Nuovi Nuovi team, in which Fagiano will occupy a marginal role, due to his nature. At the end of the 1980s he self-produced the first volume of an encyclopedia inspired by the fantasy world of Ukbar, taken from the writings of Borges and began to accompany the canvases with three-dimensional elements to then also translate into actual sculptures. There will be no lack of recourse to satire, to the use of sophisticated Duchampian quotations or to redesigning a neopop imaginary inspired by Leonardo's female universe or more simply by American cinema.
