Overview
- He died on October 28 in Naples at age 91, drawing official tributes from Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli and Mayor Gaetano Manfredi.
- A public camera ardente is scheduled for Thursday, October 30, at the Maschio Angioino from 12:00 to 16:30.
- Over six decades his work moved from socially engaged views of Naples and southern Italy to metaphysical black-and-white studies of ruins, landscapes and classical art.
- He taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli from 1970 to 1994, collaborated with Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys and Sol LeWitt, and exhibited at institutions including the Centre Pompidou, the Louvre and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- His archive includes donations of works and his darkroom to the Museo di Capodimonte, with a study center in his name announced for the Capodimonte site.