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Carlo Zinelli was born near Verona, Italy. He was only two years old when his mother died. Seven years later his father, a carpenter by trade, sent him to work on a farm. Carlo later became a butcher’s apprentice at the municipal abattoirs in Verona. During the Second World War he enlisted in an alpine chasseurs platoon. It was then that the first signs of psychological trouble became evident. At the age of 31, he was admitted to the San Giacomo hospital in Verona. Ten years later he started to scratch graffiti on the walls of the establishment. Faced with a need for self-expression on Carlo’s part, the hospital board permitted him to attend the painting and sculpture workshop created in 1957.
Carlo went on to produce almost 2,000 works. His graphic language is characterised by an accumulation of certain motifs and by changes of angle and scale. He painted animals and people in profile using gouache on both sides of sheets of paper and embellished his compositions with inscriptions.
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Écriture en délire
Écriture en délire, 18 x 24 cm, 55 color ill., 128 pp. Publisher 5 Continents / Collection de l’Art Brut, Milan/Lausanne, 2004. In French.
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Véhicules d'Art Brut
Véhicules d'Art Brut, Paris, Editions Thierry Magnier,2013, 21 x 16 cm, 32 pages.
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Vehicles (french version)
Véhicules (édition en français), Michel Thévoz and Anic Zanzi, with a Preface by Sarah Lombardi, Vehicles, Lausanne/Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/5 Continents Editions, 2013, Art Brut, la collection Directed by Sarah Lombardi.20,5 x 25,5 cm, 168 pages, 130 color illustrations.
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Vehicles
Vehicles (english version), Michel Thévoz and Anic Zanzi, with a Preface by Sarah Lombardi, Vehicles, Lausanne/Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/5 Continents Editions, 2013, Art Brut, la collection Directed by Sarah Lombardi.20,5 x 25,5 cm, 168 pages, 130 color illustrations.
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Bonhomme d'Art Brut
Bonhomme d'Art Brut, Paris, Editions Thierry Magnier, 2015,24 x 20 cm, 28 pages.
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The Art Brut Fascicle N°11
The Art Brut Fascicle N°11, 18 x 24 cm, 150 ill. black/white or color, about 160 pp. Since 1964 to 2018. In French. One fascicle CHF 30.-
Price Complete collection, 25 fascicles (N°2 - N°26) : CHF 720.-
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The Art Brut Fascicle N°06
The Art Brut Fascicle N°06, 18 x 24 cm, 150 ill. black/white or color, about 160 pp. Since 1964 to 2013.In French. One fascicle CHF 30.-
Price Complete collection, 25 fascicles (N°2 - N°26) : CHF 720.-
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Carlo Zinelli - Recto Verso
Carlo Zinelli, recto verso
Anic Zanzi, Pauline Mack, Valérie Rousseau, Florence Millioud-Henriques, Marta Spagnolello, et al., Carlo Zinelli, recto verso, under the direction of Sarah Lombardi, Lausanne/ Milan, Collection de l'Art Brut/ 5 Continents Editions, 2019 (192p./ 180 ill.).
Notebook "Carlo Zinelli"
Notebook 32 pages/ 107 mm x 154 mm
image: untitled, Carlo Zinelli, gouache on paper, ca 1960
CHF 6.-
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