AP Ec 10/1 Painting

Antonio Syxty was born in Buenos Aires. He lives and works in Milan since many years. During the 70s he starts as a performer in the art galleries. At that time he was strongly influenced by conceptual and behavioural art, as well as body art, and by a strong fascination with the work of Marcel Duchamp. After having studied in Art and Drama courses in the United States between 1975 and 1976 he began working for art-performance between 1977 and 1984. In 1978 he invented "˜OH-ART!', an autobiographical artistic movement with a fan club dedicated to Syxty himself and to his art work. In the 80s his career moves progressively towards the theatre, which he points out as an art with endless drift and behavioural variations related to the exchange of identity, and to the true and fake. He became also a movie and television director, developing his skill for video installation, public events and shows, gaining a formal attitude to be a director of spaces and behaviours. He also worked as a director for RAI - Italian Television State Broadcasting Company and for private broadcasting group as Mediaset, and for advertising, corporate film-making, fashion, concerts and any other forms of live event. Since 2007 he started an art project called Money Transfer, based on the emotional effects of money and economics in our everyday life. Money Transfer Art Project is supposed to be a Whole Earth Catalogue for New Millennium, starting out with credit cards as artwork, Money Transfer Art Project is turning into a Catalogue of our lives, with different sections which are conceptually involved with the power of economics and the financial markets.