Luis Frangella
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Luis Frangella | |
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| Born | July 6, 1944 |
| Died | December 7, 1990 (aged 46) |
| Education | Architecture, Visual Arts |
| Alma mater | Universidad de Buenos Aires, MIT |
| Movement | post-modern, figurativism, expressionism |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Luis Frangella (July 6, 1944 – December 7, 1990) was an Argentine figurative post-modern painter and sculptor associated with the expressionist painting of the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1980s. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982. He died of AIDS in 1990.[1][2]
Frangella studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). As an undergraduate student, he obtained a scholarship at the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) to work in Switzerland in urban and regional design. Once there, he was hired by R. Von Senger to work at the villa of musician Herbert von Karajan, in St. Moritz. He travelled through Europe in research journeys to learn more about the work of Max Bill, Le Corbusier, and Alvar Aalto. In Finland he was hired to work in the filming of an advertisement, where he played a mailman.
In 1971 he obtained a scholarship from the University of Buenos Aires, invited by Director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and former New Bauhaus professor, György Kepes, to complete his studies in the study in Visual Research at Urban Scale, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T), in Cambridge. He graduated as an architect from UBA in 1972. He was offered a scholarship at M.I.T between 1973 and 1976, where he finished, along with Maryanne Amacher, protégé of musician John Cage, his work on Spacial Limits, and its relations to Visual Space and Water Drops. In 1976 he moved to New York City where he continued his research in the visual field.
