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Sebastiano Carta (Priolo Gargallo, 4 March 1913 – Rome, 8 July 1973) was an Italian painter and poet, author of works belonging to futurism. Sicilian, attracted by the world of the arts, he joined Futurism at a very young age and at just twenty years old, after having received the appreciation of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti for his writing "Physical System", overcoming even the opposition of his family, he left for the capital. Read the full biography

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Sebastiano Carta Biography

Sebastiano Carta (Priolo Gargallo, 4 March 1913 – Rome, 8 July 1973) was an Italian painter and poet, author of works belonging to futurism. Sicilian, attracted by the world of the arts, he joined Futurism at a very young age and at just twenty years old, after having received the appreciation of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti for his writing "Physical System", overcoming even the opposition of his family, he left for the capital. Marinetti immediately understood its expressive strength and potential and introduced it into the Roman group, of which Carta would represent, if possible, the most anarchic and transgressive side, also departing from the more traditional styles of the movement. He produced parolibere tables (1933), exhibited at Bragaglia and signed the Manifesto of Mural Poetry in 1936. Poet, painter, polemicist, in 1944, after the futurist experience ended, together with Stradone, Dorazio, Zavattini, Guttuso founded the "Casa Rossa", an anti-bourgeois cultural group, forming friendships with Roberto Melli, Antonio Marasco, Enrico Accatino, who like him they chose Rome as their new city of choice. An anomalous artist, he moved to Como and Pavia and joined the Valori Primordiali group inspired by the architect Giuseppe Terragni. Returning to Rome, he participated in two Quadrennials, developing a painting different from all his friends and traveling companions, exploring since the 1950s a conceptual abstractionism that brought him closer to the Bauhaus than to Italian painting, often bordering on the expressionist area. With a highly recognizable style and with an approach to work almost like a street artist ante litteram, so much so that the writer Cesare Zavattini wrote: "...when he spreads out the large sheets of paint in front of his friends, we start to love and respect him again. We wander around them to these sheets as to the figures that street painters make on the pavements...". It is a solitary path, marked by serious economic problems and a difficulty in integrating into the bourgeois and commercial context which in recent years prevents him from exhibiting years, in Rome, in 1973.

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