Carlos Ginzburg is a conceptual artist and theoretician born in 1946 in La Plata

La Plata

La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of La Plata partido. According to the , the city proper has a population of 574,369 and its metropolitan area has 694,253 inhabitants....

, Argentina

Argentina

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. He studied philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 and social theory.

Biography

Germano Celant

Germano Celant

Germano Celant is an Italian art historian, critic and curator, mostly renewed for being one of the founding members of the "Arte Povera" movement in 1967....

, when writing about Arte Povera

Arte Povera

Arte Povera is a modern art movement. The term was introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s, when artists were taking a radical stance. Artists began attacking the values of established institutions of government, industry, and culture, and even questioning whether...

, invited Ginzburg by letter to join his movement.

As a conceptual artist interested in digital art

Digital art

Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...

, fractals chaos

Chaos theory

Chaos theory is a field of study in mathematics, with applications in several disciplines including physics, economics, biology, and philosophy. Chaos theory studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred to as the...

 and fractal art

Fractal art

Fractal art is a form of algorithmic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, and media. Fractal art developed from the mid 1980s onwards. It is a genre of computer art and digital art which are part of new media art...

, Ginzburg created what he calls "homo fractalus" – a concept about microcosm totality.

He has worked with the art critic Pierre Restany

Pierre Restany

Pierre Restany , was an internationally known French art critic and cultural philosopher.Restany was born in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda, Pyrénées-Orientales, and spent his childhood in Casablanca. On returning to France in 1949 he attended the Lycée Henri-IV before studying at universities in France,...

 (with whom he developed the concept of "Political Ecology") and with Severo Sarduy

Severo Sarduy

Severo Sarduy was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and critic of Cuban literature and art.-Biography:...

 who put him near Hokusai

Hokusai

was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting...

 in "Barroco", one of the reference's books to Le Pli of Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...

.

He lives in Paris and works, since 2005, with the artist Tschann on ideas between fractal chaos and religion.

Exhibition

Personal exhibition

• 2004 Susan Conde Gallery, New York
• 2002 Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris, France
• 1999 Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris, France
• 1997 Galerie Mabel Semmler, Paris, France
• 1980 I.C.C, Antwerpen, Belgium
• 1978 Galerie Studio 16, Turin, Italy
• 1977 Ecole sociologique interrogative, Paris, France

Collectival exhibition

• September 2010 Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York
• October 2009 Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• May–August 2009 Württembergischer Kunstvereim, Stuttgart, Germany
• 2005 Slought Fondation, Philadelphie, USA
• 2002 J. Wayne Stark Galleries
  J. Wayne Stark Galleries
  The J. Wayne Stark Galleries is an art museum on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. It is run by the University Art Galleries Department, which is a part of the Division of Student Affairs. The art gallery is named after J. Wayne Stark, the first director of the Memorial...
  
  , University Center Galleries, Texas A&M University
• 2001 White Box Gallery, New York
• 1999 Espace Electra, Paris, France
• 1999 Abbeye de Roncereis, Angers, France
• 1997 Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France
• 1996 Gallery of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
• 1995 Galerie Arx, Turin, Italy
• 1994 Foundation, T.Z. Art & Co Gallery, Mai, New York
• 1993 Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
• 1991 Foundation Battistoni, Paris, France
• 1990 Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery, Middletown
• 1989 Kaos Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
• 1987 Ocre d'art, Châteauroux, France
• 1983 Centre Georges Pompidou, Petit Forum, Paris, France
• 1980 Fashion Moda, New York
• 1975 Moderna Musee, Stockholm
• 1973 I.., Antwerpen, Belgium
• 1972 International Meeting of Arts, Pamplona, Spain
• 1971 Musée d'art moderne, Buenos Aires
• 1971 Camden Art Center, Londres
• ...

Official collection

• Reina Sofia Museum. 2010
• French national fonds of contemporary Art. 1988&1990

Conferences

• Université Paris VIII
• Univeristé des Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
• École des Beaux-Arts d'Annecy
• École des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse
• Faculté d'architecture de Venise, Italy
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• School of Visual Arts, New York
• École des Beaux-Arts de Caen

Press

• 1999

1. Figaro magazine, 24 avril, France
2. Journal le Monde, 16 mars, France
3. Revue Beaux Arts Magazine, Identités, Mars, Paris, France
4. Revue TechniArt, Mai, Paris, France
5. Revue Cimaise, Mars, Paris, France

• 1998

1. Revue Paris Match, Janvier, France
2. Revue Science et Avenir, Janvier, France

• 1997

1. Le Monde, 29 Nov, France
2. Revue TechniArt, n°17, France

Articles and text of Carlos Ginzburg

• 1999 Revue Art Press, n°244, Mars, Paris, France
• 1997 Revue Art Press, n°229, Nov, Paris, France
• 1995 Revue Archipielago, Madrid, Spain
• 1993 Art Forum, Mars, New York
• Revue Ometeca, New Mexico, USA
• Revue Histoire et anthropologie, Strasbourg, France
• 1992 Revue Ligeia, n°10, Paris, France
• 1987 Pour la Photographie, Univ. Paris VIII
• 1986 Revue Leonardo, USA
• 1969 Revue Pages, London, Great Britain
• 1967 Revue Approches, Paris, France