Giancarlo Flati 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 Lund, Karolinska–Sjukhuset / Karolinska Institutet – Stockholm, University of Bergen, University of Ulm – Marienhospital – Stuttgart, Gdańsk, Fords, New Jersey. Currently he is active as a painter and writer in L'Aquila, Rome, New Jersey. 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. 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. 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", 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. In 2017, within the artistic movement of “heavenly aesthetics” theorized by Daniele Radini Tedeschi he has been invited at the Triennial Exhibition of Visual Arts in Rome, Complex of Vittoriano, Ala Brasini. In 2017 he has been invited to participate as a member of “El Circulo Magico” at the National Pavilion of Guatemala - 57.International Art Exhibition - Venice Biennale. On the occasion of the Theme “The Edge” of Guatemala Pavilion Flati has published the book “On the edge of creative mind” describing the concepts and theoretical foundations of the works exposed: “I the tree of the Edges” and "From the silence of leaves”. Several art critics and editors have been writing about his art:
Awards
In 2005, Flati won the Michetti-Museum Prize. In 2016 won the cover competition for the July/August issue of the magazine Art & Beyond.
Publications
Flati is the author of the following books: His works have been published in the following books, reviews and catalogs:
