About Arduino Cantafora
Born 1945. Arduino Cantafora is an Italian and Swiss painter and architect.
Arduino Cantafora (born November 8, 1945, in Milan) is an Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and writer. He was a student of Aldo Rossi.
Biography Cantafora graduated from the Politecnico di Milano. He became renowned for his paintings with Renaissance influence, inspired by Giorgio de Chirico. He became acquainted with Aldo Rossi, of whom he was a pupil.
In the 1990s, he designed scenery for operas: Perseus and Andromeda at La Scala (1991) and Mozart's Don Giovanni in Aix-en-Provence (1993).
His work was included in an exhibition on Italian architecture at the Centre Pompidou in 2012.
He is naturalized as a Swiss citizen.
Publications Quindici stanze per una casa (1988) La pomme d'Adrien (2002) Le stanze della vita (2004)
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Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and writer (born 1945)
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Arduino Cantafora was born on 8 November 1945 in Milan.
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Arduino Cantafora is a painter and architect.
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Arduino Cantafora is Italian and Swiss.
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