Rinaldo Frattolillo

Artist Statement
My work is about counterpointing a word, a thought or a material, that will visualize an idea. This becomes the core of how I execute that idea. A medium is selected that satisfies the visual requirement, and I use any combination of elements. (Belgian linen, bronze, wood, acrylic, corrugated steel, plastics, photography, realism, barbed wire, granite etc.) The juxtaposition elicits the play of strong opposites, and the concepts range from the ironic to the controversial, or the amusing to the political.

A Brief Bio
Rinaldo Frattolillo was born in New York City, his grammar school was P.S.1, he attended Parsons School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, The New School and The Art Students League. His design firm marketed his multiples to museum stores across the country, a book of his photograghy
was published by Harcourt Brace, 1978, and he is in numerous collections. He is now represented by Jim Kempner Fine Arts in New York.
As a conceptual artist his thinking is allied with Ed Ruscha, Robert Gober, Sherrie Levine, Maurizio Cattelan, and Marcel Duchamp.