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born 1939

Achille Bonito Oliva (November 4, 1939) is an Italian art critic and historian of contemporary art.

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These saints (of Fathi Hassan) look at nothing, as if facing the ideality of a timeless space and therefore without the sound of worldly looks. They condense, within their peoples, the condition of absolute suffering of a culture, the African, profound and highly symbolic, open to the fluidity of a sentiment suited to the absolute and not to the precariousness of everyday life.

Achille Bonito Oliva in: Achille Bonito Oliva (2000)

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