Gustavo Charif

Gustavo Charif (沙里夫•古斯塔沃) is a «Stateless» writer, visual artist and filmmaker, who born in America, lived in Europe and lives in Asia.

He has showed artworks since 1986, and took part in international exhibitions side by side with Pierre Alechinsky, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Antonio Saura, Bram van Velde, Roland Topor, Jean Miotte and many others.

In 1989 was named Special Guest at the First Art Biennial of Young Art for his body of work as experimental filmmaker (Recoleta Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires), and, in 1997, The Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires organized his first short film retrospective.
Charif has a script written in the 90s with the legendary Argentinian artist Luis Felipe Noé, project for a feature film.

In 2002 Fernando Arrabal and Milan Kundera invite him to illustrate the first artist’s book that brings them together. The book (a limited edition of 33 copies, Ed. Menú, Cuenca, Spain) is exhibited for the first time in 2004 at the Charif's solo exhibition "Alexandria" (organized by the Centro Cultural Borges).

In 2003, he canonized Luce Moreau Arrabal at the front door of the Notre-Dame of Paris, giving her the title of Saint Lis in the presence of the Collège de ‘Pataphysique and two...