Alfio Giuffrida

Alfio Giuffrida (born 28 January 1953 in Zafferana Etnea ), also known as Alfio Giuffrida AG Sinnwerke, is a contemporary Italian sculptor, installation artist, set designer and painter.

Life and education Giuffrida was born in Zafferana Etnea, Sicily, in 1953. Between 1969 and 1972, he studied at the Scuola statale d'arte, Catania. In 1973, he moved to Rome to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, where he earned a diploma in set design. Between 1977 and 1985, he worked as a freelance painter and set designer in Rome; he moved to Cologne in 1986. From 1990 to 2004, he worked in his studio in Bonn, and has been living in Cologne again ever since. After moving to Germany, he began working as a set designer with the choreographer Jochen Ulrich in 1995—first with the Cologne Tanz-Forum and later with various other ensembles.

In 2003, he founded the fictional company A.G. Sinnwerke®, a brand and artistic project conceived as a "conceptual factory" for the production of serial cycles of works. In the 1990s, he initially created reliefs from fragments of furniture; later, he mostly produced large-scale, movable sculptures that simulate industrial mass-produced items. Some of these are movable and can be walked through. His installations also include references to mass-produced objects, such as antennas or high-voltage pylons, as well as CD cases. April/June 2001 Stadtmuseum Siegburg (Installationen) July/August 2004 Mannheimer Kunstverein. September/December 2006 Märkisches Museum Witten (Kinderwagen & andere Kunststücke) March/June 2007 Stadtmuseum Bergkamen

Group exhibitions

March/April 1975, X Quadrennial of Rome (The new generation) June/October 2017, The Hot Wire (A collaboration between Skulptur Projekte Münster and Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl)

Stage design

Notebook, Premiere, 2 May 1995, Oper der Stadt Köln Get up Early, 22 February 1996, Internationales Tanzfestival Wien Citizen Kane, 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, 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, 22 November 2003, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck Sissi – Kaiserliche Hoheit, 22 October 2005, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck