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Alfio Giuffrida, also known as Alfio Giuffrida AG Sinnwerke (born 28 January 1953 in
In 1975 he returned to non-figurative representation and participated in the X Rome Quadriennale.
Between 1977 and 1985 he worked as a freelance painter and set designer in 
2003 saw the founding of the fictitious factory A.G. Sinnwerke®. The first products to appear under the A.G. Sinnwerke label were the ''CDs'', ''CD-Sets'', and ''Selbstbau-Sets''. More concentrated object cycles followed: ''CD-Roms'', ''Samples'', ''Ovali'', ''Kugeln'', ''Irrigatoren'', ''Mona Lisa'', and ''Sample-Sets'', all offered in blister packs. Adjustable, space-consuming sculptures were made in parallel, their models presented in the form of corsets. Many ideas were captured in painting. He followed the same principle when he continued the richly varied idea of the objects in painting : ''Irrigatoren'', ''Irrigatoren-Sätze'', ''CD-Homes'', ''Figuren'', ''Enthüllungen'', ''Bezüge'', ''Seitenblicke'', ''Antennen'', ''Töpfe'', ''Tempel'', ''Angebote'', ''CD-Stapel'', ''Kathedralen'' etc. Eventually the artist provided only the material, that is, the ''Do-it-yourself-Baukästen'', allowing the buyer to come to a personal decision about what form to use for his or her individual picture.
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File:Kathedralen-Do it yourself-Baukaesten-Set1 Alfio Giuffrida-AG Sinnwerke.jpg, Kathedralen-Do it yourself-Baukaesten-Set1, 2009
File:Kathedralen-exp1 Alfio Giuffrida-AG Sinnwerke.jpg, Kathedralen-exp1, 2009
File:Angebote-exp15 Alfio Giuffrida-AG Sinnwerke.jpg, Angebote-exp15, 2008
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File:CD-HOMES-exp19 Alfio Giuffrida-AG Sinnwerke.jpg, CD-HOMES-exp19, 2008
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Zafferana Etnea
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) is a contemporary Italian
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sculptor, installation art
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ist, set designer
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and painter
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.
Works
In 1975 he returned to non-figurative representation and participated in the X Rome Quadriennale.
Between 1977 and 1985 he worked as a freelance painter and set designer in Rome
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.
He moved to Cologne
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in 1986.
From 1990 to 2004 he worked in his studio in Bonn
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.
2003 saw the founding of the fictitious factory A.G. Sinnwerke®. The first products to appear under the A.G. Sinnwerke label were the ''CDs'', ''CD-Sets'', and ''Selbstbau-Sets''. More concentrated object cycles followed: ''CD-Roms'', ''Samples'', ''Ovali'', ''Kugeln'', ''Irrigatoren'', ''Mona Lisa'', and ''Sample-Sets'', all offered in blister packs. Adjustable, space-consuming sculptures were made in parallel, their models presented in the form of corsets. Many ideas were captured in painting. He followed the same principle when he continued the richly varied idea of the objects in painting : ''Irrigatoren'', ''Irrigatoren-Sätze'', ''CD-Homes'', ''Figuren'', ''Enthüllungen'', ''Bezüge'', ''Seitenblicke'', ''Antennen'', ''Töpfe'', ''Tempel'', ''Angebote'', ''CD-Stapel'', ''Kathedralen'' etc. Eventually the artist provided only the material, that is, the ''Do-it-yourself-Baukästen'', allowing the buyer to come to a personal decision about what form to use for his or her individual picture.
Exhibitions
Selected exhibitions March/April 1989 Bahnwärterhaus Villa Merkel – Galerie der Stadt Esslingen. February/April 2001 Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen. April/June 2001 Stadtmuseum Siegburg. July/August 2004 Mannheimer Kunstverein. September/December 2006 Märkisches Museum Witten. March/June 2007 Stadtmuseum Bergkamen.Stage design
''Notebook'', Premiere, 2 May 1995, Oper der Stadt Köln. ''Die Verlobung in St. Domingo'', 17 June 1995, Schlosserei Schauspiel Köln. '' Goya-Danzas negras'', 20 December 1995, Oper der Stadt Köln. ''Get up Early'', 22 February 1996, Internationales Tanzfestival Wien. ''Citizen Kane
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'', 4 April 1997, Oper der Stadt Köln. '' Diaghilew - Die Offenbarung'', 10 January 1999, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck. '' Lorca y Dalí-Perros de Luna'', 19 February 1999, Stadsschouwburg Heerlen (NL). '' Mon Orphée'', 1 April 2000, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen. ''Phädra'', 30 November 2000, Deutsche Oper am Rhein
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, Düsseldorf. '' Romeo und Julia'', 20 January 2001, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck. '' Casanova'', 10 November 2001, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck. '' Diaghilew - Die Favoriten'', 8 November 2003, Aalto Theater Essen. ''Caravaggio
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'', 22 November 2003, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck. '' Sissi - Kaiserliche Hoheit'', 22 October 2005, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck.
Bibliography
* Künstler in Köln 1990, Köln 1989. M. Haas, A. Tolnay (Bearb.) * 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, * Ulrich Schneider, Gert Fischer: Suermondt Ludwig Museum Aachen * Stadtmuseum Siegburg (Hrsg.): Giuffrida, Aachen/Siegburg 2001, . * Martin Stather: A.G. Sinnwerke * Mannheimer Kunstverein (Hrsg.): A.G. Sinnwerke Giuffrida CDs, Bonn 2004, . * Nele Lipp, Uwe Rüth: Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (Hrsg.): Körper – Leib – Raum: Der Raum im zeitgenössischen Tanz und in der zeitgenössischen Plastik, Marl 2006, .Gallery
See also
Postmodernism
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References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Giuffrida, Alfio 1953 births Living people People from Zafferana Etnea 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 21st-century Italian painters Italian installation artists Italian postmodern artists 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male sculptors 21st-century Italian sculptors Artists from Sicily 21st-century Italian male artists