Giorgio Orefice Biography
Giorgio Orefice (Syracuse, 11 November 1941) is an Italian painter. In his artistic career he has experimented with abstractionism, hyperrealism, pop art, fractalism, computer graphics and sculpture. He lived in Syracuse, Florence, Verona, Rome, Milan, Jesi. Since 2004 he has lived in Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. He held his first solo exhibition in 1957 in Foggia. He attended the Nude School in Bologna, in 1996 he graduated from the Art School of Catanzaro and in ceramics from the art school of Vibo Valentia. He travels frequently to New York, London and Paris. In recent years he experimented with abstractionism, hyperrealism and pop-art. He creates works in expanded polystyrene, galvanized sheet metal, plastic and self-propelled luminous objects. In 1971 he moved to Rome, where he held his first exhibitions for the general public. He frequents Cinecittà, also works with Pier Paolo Pasolini and is interested in set design. In 1973 he was awarded by the jury of the Viareggio Prize, twinned with the international exhibition "Ai Frati" in Camaiore, and on that occasion he met Leonida Repaci. In the 1980s, struck by a trip to Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Brazil, he began his discussion on ethology as the regeneration of man. Since the 1990s he has been interested in computer graphics, fractals and image fractalization. He wrote the Manifesto of fractalism in art and is considered the protagonist of this avant-garde. In 1997 he visited Lanzarote, where he moved permanently in January 2004. Here he began a pictorial investigation and created works on raw lava, painted with enamels and fire.
