b. 1912 in Udine, IT – 1976 in Zurich, CH

Afro defined form as psychological, giving shapes and colours an intellect, a significance beyond their physical attributes. He excavates through this practice an informality, resulting in an own subjective world order. His abstraction is a mental process, a liberation of scale and logic which casts aside preconceived notions of knowledge and develops a language comprehensible to anyone who is willing to embark on a journey of the unknown. Today, Afro's work can be found in many important public and private collections: including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, the Tate Modern in London and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.