Ernesto Tatafiore, born in Naples in 1943, is an Italian artist with a long international career. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1970, 1980, and 1990, and worked closely with Jannis Kounellis starting in 1971. During the 1970s and 80s, Tatafiore regularly exhibited with the influential avant-garde gallerist Lucio Amelio in Naples, alongside artists such as Joseph Beuys, Tony Cragg, Mimmo Paladino, David Salle, Richard Long, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. His work was also shown at prominent galleries in Paris, New York, London, and Cologne. Tatafiore distanced himself early on from the Italian movements *Arte Povera* and *Transavanguardia*, developing instead a unique style in which painting and drawing are combined wit...