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Alfio Giuffrida

Alfio Giuffrida (born 28 January 1953 in Zafferana Etnea[1]), also known as Alfio Giuffrida AG Sinnwerke, is a contemporary Italian sculptor, installation artist, set designer and painter.[2]

Alfio Giuffrida
Alfio Giuffrida (2008)
Born(1953-01-28)28 January 1953
Zafferana Etnea, Italy
EducationAccademia di Belle Arti di Roma
Known forPainting, sculpture, scenography
WebsiteAG Sinnwerke

Life and education

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Giuffrida was born in Zafferana Etnea, Sicily, in 1953. Between 1969 and 1972, he studied at the Scuola statale d'arte, Catania. In 1973, he moved to Rome to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, where he earned a diploma in set design. Between 1977 and 1985, he worked as a freelance painter and set designer in Rome; he moved to Cologne in 1986. From 1990 to 2004, he worked in his studio in Bonn, and has been living in Cologne again ever since.[1]

Works

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ELEMENT LVIII-Animation, 2003

In 1975 Giuffrida participated in the X Rome Quadriennale.[3] After moving to Germany, he began working as a set designer with the choreographer Jochen Ulrich in 1995—first with the Cologne Tanz-Forum and later with various other ensembles.[4]

ELEMENT LVIII-Einstellung 11, 1997/98
B-731 R, 1996/97

In 2003, he founded the fictional company A.G. Sinnwerke®, a brand and artistic project conceived as a "conceptual factory" for the production of serial cycles of works. In the 1990s, he initially created reliefs from fragments of furniture; later, he mostly produced large-scale, movable sculptures that simulate industrial mass-produced items. Some of these are movable and can be walked through. His installations also include references to mass-produced objects, such as antennas or high-voltage pylons, as well as CD cases.[1]

Selected exhibitions

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  • February/April 2001 Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen[5]
  • April/June 2001 Stadtmuseum Siegburg (Installationen)[6]
  • July/August 2004 Mannheimer Kunstverein.[7]
  • September/December 2006 Märkisches Museum Witten (Kinderwagen & andere Kunststücke)[8]
  • March/June 2007 Stadtmuseum Bergkamen[9]

Group exhibitions

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  • March/April 1975, X Quadrennial of Rome (The new generation)
  • June/October 2017, The Hot Wire (A collaboration between Skulptur Projekte Münster and Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl)[10]

Stage design

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Bibliography

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  • Künstler in Köln 1990, Köln 1989. M. Haas
  • A. Tolnay (Ed.), Grafische Sammlung der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Bestands-Kat. II, Esslingen 1991
  • B. Colarossi (Ed.), Quadriennale d'arte di Roma, Inv. Dell′arch., Rome 2000, ISBN 8876211276
  • Ulrich Schneider, Gert Fischer: Suermondt Ludwig Museum Aachen
  • Stadtmuseum Siegburg (Hrsg.): Giuffrida, Aachen/Siegburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-007525-9.
  • Martin Stather: A.G. Sinnwerke
  • Mannheimer Kunstverein (Hrsg.): A.G. Sinnwerke Giuffrida CDs, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-00-014058-1.
  • Nele Lipp, Uwe Rüth: Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (Hrsg.): Körper – Leib – Raum: Der Raum im zeitgenössischen Tanz und in der zeitgenössischen Plastik, Marl 2006, ISBN 3-924790-73-6.
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References

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  1. 1 2 3 Kronthaler, Helmut (2021). Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; Tegethoff, Wolf (eds.). "Giuffrida, Alfio. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online". www.degruyterbrill.com. Berlin, New York: K. G. Saur. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  2. ↑ "DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  3. ↑ "Giuffrida, Alfio". QUADRIENNALE DI ROMA (in Italian). Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Koegler, Horst (2001). Von der Veränderbarkeit alles Lebenden im Fluss der Zeit. Program booklet “Casanova” Ballet by Jochen Ulrich (in German). Innsbruck. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ "Giuffrida : Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, 24. Februar - 15. April 2001 ; Stadtmuseum Siegburg, 29. April - 3. Juni 2001". Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (in German). Retrieved 23 March 2026.
  6. ↑ "Archiv 2000 bis 2009". Stadtmuseum Siegburg (in German). Retrieved 23 March 2026.
  7. ↑ "Guiffrida CDs : 18.07.2004 - 15.08.2004, Mannheimer Kunstverein". Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (in German). Retrieved 23 March 2026.
  8. ↑ "Märkisches Museum Witten - Ausstellungen". Märkisches Museum Witten (in German). Retrieved 23 March 2026.
  9. ↑ "SessionNet | Programmplanungen für die Kultursaison 1. Halbjahr 2007". ris.bergkamen.de. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
  10. ↑ "Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl - Ausstellungen". www.skulpturenmuseum-glaskasten-marl.de. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
  11. 1 2 Lipp, Nele. "Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln" (PDF). Retrieved 23 March 2026.
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