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Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (11 September 1914 – 20 November 1990), also known as GAC, was an Italian artist and art collector. After an initial activity as a painter, in the 1940s and 1950s he became one of the major collectors of contemporary Italian abstract art, developing a deep relationship of patronage and friendship with the artists. This experience has its pinnacle in the exhibition Modern painters of the Cavellini collection at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome in 1957. In the 1960s Cavellini resumed his activity as an artist, with an ample production spanning from Neo-Dada to performance art to mail art, of which he became one of the prime exponents with the Exhibitions at Home and the Round Trip works. In 1971 he invented autostoricizzazione (self-historicization), upo

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  • Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (11 September 1914 – 20 November 1990), also known as GAC, was an Italian artist and art collector. After an initial activity as a painter, in the 1940s and 1950s he became one of the major collectors of contemporary Italian abstract art, developing a deep relationship of patronage and friendship with the artists. This experience has its pinnacle in the exhibition Modern painters of the Cavellini collection at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome in 1957. In the 1960s Cavellini resumed his activity as an artist, with an ample production spanning from Neo-Dada to performance art to mail art, of which he became one of the prime exponents with the Exhibitions at Home and the Round Trip works. In 1971 he invented autostoricizzazione (self-historicization), upon which he acted to create a deliberate popular history surrounding his existence. He also authored the books Abstract Art (1959), Man painter (1960), Diary of Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (1975), Encounters/Clashes in the Jungle of Art (1977) and Life of a Genius (1989). (en)
  • Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, noto anche come GAC (Brescia, 11 settembre 1914 – Brescia, 20 novembre 1990), è stato un artista e collezionista d'arte italiano.Dopo una prima attività artistica come pittore, negli anni quaranta e cinquanta diviene uno dei maggiori collezionisti dell'astrattismo contemporaneo italiano, fino ad instaurare con i protagonisti di tale corrente un profondo rapporto di mecenatismo ed amicizia, esperienza che culmina nella celebre mostra Pittori moderni dalla collezione Cavellini, allestita presso la Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Roma nel 1957. In seguito Cavellini torna all'attività di artista con opere che spaziano dal dadaismo alla performance art alla mail art, di cui diviene uno dei principali esponenti con le Mostre a domicilio e le opere Andata/ritorno, e nel 1971 inventa l'Autostoricizzazione. È inoltre autore dei libri Arte astratta (1959), Uomo pittore (1960), Diario di Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (1975), Incontri/scontri nella giungla dell'arte (1977) e Vita di un genio (1989). (it)
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  • Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (11 September 1914 – 20 November 1990), also known as GAC, was an Italian artist and art collector. After an initial activity as a painter, in the 1940s and 1950s he became one of the major collectors of contemporary Italian abstract art, developing a deep relationship of patronage and friendship with the artists. This experience has its pinnacle in the exhibition Modern painters of the Cavellini collection at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome in 1957. In the 1960s Cavellini resumed his activity as an artist, with an ample production spanning from Neo-Dada to performance art to mail art, of which he became one of the prime exponents with the Exhibitions at Home and the Round Trip works. In 1971 he invented autostoricizzazione (self-historicization), upo (en)
  • Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, noto anche come GAC (Brescia, 11 settembre 1914 – Brescia, 20 novembre 1990), è stato un artista e collezionista d'arte italiano.Dopo una prima attività artistica come pittore, negli anni quaranta e cinquanta diviene uno dei maggiori collezionisti dell'astrattismo contemporaneo italiano, fino ad instaurare con i protagonisti di tale corrente un profondo rapporto di mecenatismo ed amicizia, esperienza che culmina nella celebre mostra Pittori moderni dalla collezione Cavellini, allestita presso la Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Roma nel 1957. In seguito Cavellini torna all'attività di artista con opere che spaziano dal dadaismo alla performance art alla mail art, di cui diviene uno dei principali esponenti con le Mostre a domicilio e le oper (it)
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