Alfred Breitman

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Alfred Breitman
Born Late 1950s
Italy Italy
Field Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Engraving, Ceramics, Land Art, Video Art, Performances, Filmmaking, Literature
Movement Pop Art
Works "American Flag"

Alfred Breitman is an Italian artist of Jewish origin, born in the late 1950s. He has put on shows and performances in Italy and abroad covering pop art, conceptualism, video installations, land art, comic book design, advertising and photography, as well as painting and traditional engraving.

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[edit] Biography

In 1975 the painter Mario Schifano introduced Breitman to the American artist Andy Warhol in Milan. During a brainstorming session with other young artists, the "Pop Art Crisis" project was conceived, which proposed inserting cultural and social values into pop imagery. Breitman has often worked with the marketing departments of major firms, creating pop images capable of reaching the public, not only in art galleries, but also from shop windows and through major retailers. Gatto cinese (Chinese Cat) and Slot Machines for Hoover; Stelle Virtuali (Virtual Stars) for IBM; Icone Pop (Pop Icons) for Schering-Plough etc.

Anne in the Sky, Pastel on Paper 2007

In the 1980s he met the master of graffiti art Keith Haring at Fiorucci in Milan and created with him a series of "Surfers", continuing with the project of restoring to art its role as an example for society. Again in the 1980s Breitman came up with a new notion in performance art, convincing a number of famous poets (among them Gregory Corso and Dario Bellezza) to create graphic images. This led to the creation of contemporary works like Gatto Beat (Beat Cat) and Scatola della Poesia (Poetry Box).

American Flag, Self Haters-Unite! (Boomka.org), Israel Digital Picture 2006

[edit] The Pop Art Crisis

In the 1980s and 1990s Breitman continued the "Andy Warhol and I: the Pop Art Crisis" project, creating powerful and sometimes upsetting images, images that were linked to minorities and human rights. Breitman’s works seek to inspire the public to oppose discrimination. Some of the artist’s output touches on delicate subjects such as racism, homophobia, war and pollution.

Alfred Breitman has been involved in making films and documentaries. He created the series "Il genio in 100 ritratti" (“A Hundred Portraits Of Genius”), in celebration of the artists who changed the course of art history. He was the first land artist to bring crop circles to Italy, creating a number of examples of the form invented by the British artists Doug & Dave. He has collaborated with well-known circle makers from the UK. He was one of the earliest artists to display and sell his works on the internet, by means of virtual galleries. A peace artist, Breitman was the last Western artist invited to put on a show in Iran, prior to 9/11. The show, which centred on peace, was cancelled following the attack on the World Trade Center. Breitman was among the first artists to take part in the famous show "Self-Haters Unite!" against historical revisionism and anti-Semitism. He is involved in the discovery and recovery of artists from oppressed peoples throughout history. Alfred Breitman is candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize 2010, as member of EveryOne Group.

[edit] Israel urged to purchase Hitler's home

November 12, 2009. Alfred Breitman and The EveryOne Group for International Cooperation on Human Rights Culture have asked the government of Israel to purchase an unlikely property - the house where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889. Alfred hopes the Israeli government will purchase and then convert he Nazi leader's birth house into an art gallery.

[edit] Leonardo da Vinci was Arab

Florence, March 1, 2010 – “Leonardo da Vinci, considered ‘the greatest Italian of all time’ in the recent format on Raidue, was an Arab.” This was revealed in a study by Alfred Breitman and Roberto Malini of the Watching The Sky Group, an association engaged in the search for lost works of art and track unknown biography of the great artists of the past. The most important evidence is constituted by the discovery of a fingerprint on the painting of Leonardo’s “Lady with an Ermine.” According to the anthropologist Luigi Capasso type is characteristic of the footprint 60% of individuals from Arab countries. The idea of an Arab origin of the teacher is not new. E ‘is well known that the name of Leonardo’s mother, Catherine, was frequently attributed to the Arab slave purchased in Tuscany from Istanbul. Breitman and Malini are confirmed to their argument in a virile portrait of the early sixteenth school of Leonardo, which is a face that has many similarities with the known portraits of the face of Leonardo da Vinci. Its uniqueness is wearing a headdress fashioned Arabic. You may assume that this is a portrait of the maestro performed by one of his students who knew the true origins of the ‘greatest Italian of all time’. The news, valuable for the History of Art, is also a warning to those who are exceptionally keen the geographical and cultural boundaries of our country, not understanding that social progress, moral and intellectual life of a people can only take place thanks to other experiences and traditions. “

[edit] Exhibitions and Performances

  • 1976 - "Mices on the Moon", Istituto d'Arte e Cultura, Milan (Italy)
  • 1979 - "Andy Warhol and I . The Pop Art Crisis", Centro Cultura e Arte Contemporanea, Milan (Italy)
  • 1984 - "Giorni d'orgoglio", Il Cassero, Bologna (Italy)
  • 1986 - "Pace nel Golfo", Petrofil Gallery, Milan (Italy)
  • 1987 - "Andy Warhol and I. The Pop Art Crisis", Kunst Galerie, Berlin (Germany)
  • 1988 - "Chinese Cat", Hoover Usa, Uk and Italy
  • 1988 - "The genius. 100 portraits", Schering-Plough, Milan (Italy)
  • 1992 - "Animal Death Camps", Municipal Hall, Brescia (Italy)
  • 1999 - "Quezcoatl", crop circle, Alton Priors (UK)
  • 2001 - Alfred Breitman & Rami Lavitzky, "Homo Dolens", Pinakos, Milan (Italy)
  • 2004 - "Dipingere l'Olocausto", Municipal Hall, Pitigliano (Italy)
  • 2004 - "Platform 21 - Rabbi Akiva Installation", Pitigliano (Italy)
  • 2005 - "Oblique Reproductions - From Klee to Basquiat", Digital photos, Studio d'Arte Cassina, Milan (Italy)
  • 2006 - "American Flag", Self Haters-Unite! (Boomka.org), Israel
  • 2007 - "Anne in the sky", Hilo Art Museum, Hawaii (Usa)
  • 2008 - "The Red Wheel - Stop the persecution of the Roma people in Italy", graffito, piazza Duomo, Milan (Italy)
  • 2008 - "The Berluschronometer Watch - I Support Barack Obama", Social Art, Rome/Bruxelles/Washington
  • 2009 - "Israel urged to purchase Hitler's home", a Holocaust Art Gallery and a Memorial of the Responsibility

[edit] Interviews and articles

  • The Pop Art Crisis, in "Specchio Medico", Milano 1985
  • Andy Warhol and the Art SuperMarket, in "Specchio Medico Informa", Milano 1985
  • The Great Pianist, in "Specchio Medico", Milano 1985
  • Francis Bacon: the body as metaphor of the universe, in "Specchio Medico Informa", Milano 1985

[edit] Bibliography

  • Alfred Breitman: "Massimo Ciancimino, politica e mafia", Tracce, anno XXIX - n° 30, 2010
  • Alfred Breitman: "Sulla xenofobia", Tracce, anno XXIX - n° 31, 2010
  • Alfred Breitman, Gino Fanciullacci: "Intervista con il mago" (Interview with the Wizard), Audiobook, LibriVivi 2010

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