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 Fred Charap
Fred
Charap was born in Brooklyn,(USA) in a family of emigrant
Russian jews. As a young man he studied at New York
University, where he received a Master’s in Public
Administration, and at Yale University, where he received a
Master’s in Urban Studies.
In a short time he had launched a successful career in labor
administration, but he retained his early love of art. He
became friends with many young contemporary artists and began
to visit their studios.Finally, in the early 80’s, Fred
decided to change careers in order to dedicate himself
entirely to art. He enrolled in the San Francisco Art
Institute where he received both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s
in Fine Arts.
Then Fred began his artistic activity in America and Europe.
Presently, Fred lives in a small medieval village in Tuscany.
He has had shows in Switzerland (Lausanne, Zurich and Ronco s/Ascona),
France (Paris), and Italy (Alessandra and Florence).
Further information on the Exhibitions
[...]
Frederick ( or Fred, as he likes to be called) Charap is
Jewish, born in the United States but of Russian origins.
These three interior realities, these three histories,
these three cultures have worked profoundly upon his
intellect and his spirit; what emerges is a man and an
artist of culture and consciousness, with a great
sensitivity to the events of the world both as history
and as significance, contradiction, suffering. The
artistic realization is projected through the material,
the colors and the symbolic implications of the signs,
all of which intersect and are superimposed much like
the motivations of the intellectual and moral fundament
in which they have their roots.
Read the presentation of the exhibition in Milan and an
interview with Fred Charap
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