Giancarlo Flati

Giancarlo Flati (L'Aquila, May 11, 1953) is an Italian painter, researcher and writer.

Biography

Flati is born in L'Aquila, in the region of Abruzzo in central Italy. His artistic production began in 1964.

Since 1972 he has been doing artistic and biomedical research in several European Countries (University of L'Aquila, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Rome (Italy), University of Lund (Sweden), Karolinska–Sjukhuset / Karolinska Institutet – Stockholm (Sweden), University of Bergen (Norway), University of Ulm – Marienhospital – Stuttgart (Germany), Gdańsk (Poland), Fords, New Jersey (US). Currently he is active as a painter and writer in L'Aquila, Rome, New Jersey (US).

He has performed exhibitions in several European countries, in cultural institutions, in museums and private art galleries. Private and public collections of his works exist in Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Spain, Australia and US.^[1]

He has been working, until 2009, in the field of Microsurgery and General Surgery. Flati has been docent in Scientific Methodology in the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He is author and coauthor of several surgical books and scientific articles, published worldwide in the fields of microsurgery, male infertility, hepato- pancreatic, gastrointestinal and endocrine surgery.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

In 2009, after an earthquake struck and destroyed his hometown of L'Aquila, Flati founded the Cultural Association "Cantiere Aquilano di Cultura Creativa ai Margini della Coscienza",^[11] which is now active as a "Think tank" group dedicated to creative consciousness, with a particular attention to the aesthetic implications of the holographic paradigm proposed by Itzhak Bentov, David Bohm and Karl H. Pribram.^[12]

Several art critics and editors have been writing about his art.^[13][14] Luigina Bortolatto describes Flati's style as:

Flati represents the world in its complexities, grasping the moment in which it organizes itself, shapelessly flowing and defines itself from the first sound of the big bang, bursting and expanding in the euphony of space-time. In the works of Flati there are tangled woods, metallic nodes, electronic boards, broken glass, grains of sand, stones, and nutshell sounds of Triton. Every element has the memory of the arpeggio of the forest, the lapping of the waves, the sounds of electronic machines, the inebriation of the wind meeting the clouds. A new polyphony of space, a new melody with multiple voices, a sort of ars nova, a music between art and science.

— Luigina Bortolatto^[15]

Awards

In 2005, Flati won the Michetti-Museum Prize.^[16]

Publications

• Varicocele ed infertilità maschile (Flati, Gentile, Lenzi), SEU, 2006.
• Flati, Giancarlo (2008). Giancarlo Flati: Intersezioni del Tempo. Matteo Editore. 
• Flati, Giancarlo (2012). From Qbits to Time Knots. Nero su Bianco. 
• Il segreto del pendolo di Bentov. Co-Scienza, estetica dell'invisibile e ordini nascosti, Aracne Editrice, 2013.

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