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Artist Exhibitions:
2002 Individual exhibition in
Paris, invited by the Société
des Amis de Roland Topor
(Accatone Gallery, Paris,
France).
Big individual exhibition in
Daniel Maman Fine Arts, the
most important gallery of
Buenos Aires.2001 "20 x 20" A
Collaborative exhibition in
praxis International Arts,
Buenos Aires.
Prepares the films "...
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Artist Statement for Gustavo Charif
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Celebrate, Gustavo Charif
The tear and the egg
The unreal bodies
the hazy present
And the rough eternity.
He, who invites, is invitation.
Verses of Fernando Arrabal -writer and filmmaker-, October 1999.
Stateless, born in August 18, 1966.
Painter, writer, experimental filmmaker, inventor of pictorial and cinematography techniques, of a system of lenses that places the vision in grid form (aiming for a more simple and quick way of learning proportions in drawings), of an embryonic language with his own grammar and laws, of a genre of theatre (the caprela, a sort of dramatic poem that takes its name from the arthropod, for his external skeleton), of a Sophistic International, of a religion that does not accept devotes, of a price without money for scientists and artists (the Charif painted gold).
He has produced a number of institutional and personal studies of paintings, literature, history of religions, philosophy, epistemology, music, excelling in restoration of easel painting and of réggisseur.
He took part in many big exhibitions side by side with Pierre Alechinsky, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Antonio Saura, Bram van Velde, Roland Topor, Jean Miotte and many others, being the only Argentinean artist, and in many of them the only Latin American.
He shows since 1982 in Buenos Aires, Paris, Berlin, Peking and others cities around the world.
Between 1992 and 1994 he writes together with the legendary and classic Argentinean painter Luis Felipe Noé (father of the filmmaker Gaspar Noé), the movie script Recontrapoder.
In year 2000 the Baron Gérard Museum of Normandy, France, selected him to participate in "Kaléidoscopies: Arrabal et les artistes (1964-2000)", alongside the works of Camacho, Dalí, Godard, Miotte, Sempé, Olivier O. Olivier and writers like Michel Butor and Michel Houellebecq. The same year he made a false cover of Le Figaro magazine, which was distributed throughout Paris, announcing his "invasion to conquer the barbaric people of France". In that opportunity he met the great writer and director Alexandro Jodorowsky, who invited him to a public dialog on his work and future, tarot reading in Le père tranquile.
In year 2001, the directive board of the National Found of Fine Arts (Argentine) convoked him to show in the selection The real unreality: echoes of the surrealism, side by side with the great Argentinean masters Xul Solar and others, being Charif the youngest. That incredible selection was presented in arteBA 2001.
In may of the same year Fernando Arrabal showing Charif works at the "Satrapes", masters from the Collège de ‘Pathaphysique (between they, the Nobel Price Dario Fo), whom praise Charif and his work.
During 2002, Milan Kundera and Fernando Arrabal were planning the first book that they write together, and invited Charif to make the illustrations. For Kundera this is the first book of bibliophiles (40 copies, Menú Edition, Spain, appointed to museums and private collections of Europe).
The same year he edited the Incarnate Manifesto for the grand solo exhibition in Daniel Maman Fine Arts. For the varnishing day Charif convoked to a procession of hundreds of people (poets, scientists, chess players, performers). That procession began in the last residence of Macedonio Fernández, master of Jorge Luis Borges, ending with the act of canonisation of Fernando Arrabal as San Fando.
In October and November he exhibit as Charif and Lenz in Accatone, Paris, invited by Kazhik Hentchel, vice-president of the Societé des Amis de Roland Topor (Pierre Alechinsky, Jean-Claude Carrière, Raoul Ruiz, Jerôme Savary, Volker Schlöndorf and Daniel Spoerri are some of the members of that society).
In December 15 he canonise Luce Moreau Arrabal at Notre-Dame de Paris, with a crowd of 2000 people (between others, the president of the Frioul Republic and the members of the Collège de ‘Pathaphysique, the Dream Team Cinématographique, Adjani, Aoi, Marc Brenner, Debenedetti, Ante Glibota, Maxime Godard, Harold, Laurence Imbert, Grégoire Lacroix, Léo Léonard, Gabriel Matzneff. Olivier O. Olivier, Anitra Seawright, Christophe Stycinski, Michel Talheimer and a group "of incarnated artists, chess players, scientists and mystic policemen").
In 2003 he has been invited to make his first retrospective exhibition in the Apricale Museum of the Castello della Lucertola (Italy, 2005-2006).
He has also been invited by to make an enormous one-man show exhibition at the Centro Cultural Borges of Buenos Aires, in October of 2004. In words of Roger Hallua, director of that institution, this exhibition is meant to be "the biggest show of an Argentinean artist of the year".
His works are found in prestigious collections of Europe, Asia, Buenos Aires and New York (col. Elorenzo Einaudi, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Antoine Frémon, Christine Burrus, and many others).
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