Baruchello. Certain ideas

When three years after the Baruchello Rome show (2011), Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg under Dirk Luckow and the ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe under Peter Weibel decided to hold a comprehensive show of Baruchello’s oeuvre and to republish the 2011 catalogue in English with important updates, they did so in recognition of the artist’s global significance. Baruchello is among the key figures who in the 1960s and ‘70s, beginning in New York but also in Italy, France and Germany, declared war on the bourgeois culture of representative art and the commercial art business, calling for a critical, political and socially conscious art