page_title: Alik Cavaliere
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Alik Cavaliere / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Servizio fotografico&#160;: Bologna, 1970 / Paolo Monti. - Strisce: 3, Fotogrammi complessivi: 16&#160;: Negativo b/n, gelatina bromuro d'argento/ pellicola&#160;; 35 mm. - ((I fotogrammi hanno una doppia numerazione. . - Sul portanegativi: Nikon HP4. - Sul dorso del portanegativi Monti specifica: "Cavaliere. Foscherari."
context_page_description: Alik Cavaliere was an Italian sculptor. He spent his life researching the meaning of life, freedom, nature, and history. Atheist and libertarian since generations, he didn't believe in any preconceived, final structure of the society, the environment, or the whole universe. Neither he followed any art movements of his times, although he knew all of them and was temporarily influenced by some. He strove along his own way, narrating his perceptions with witty irony, through sculptures made up of a wide range of materials, disposed in a chaotic labyrinth which visitors are forced to traverse without being able to find a definitive point of view.
context_section_description: Alik Cavaliere was born on 5 August 1926 in Rome, to Alberto Cavaliere, a southern Italian poet and politician, and Fanny Kaufman, a Russian Hebrew sculptress escaped from the revolution.
  After spending part of his childhood between Rome and Paris, he settled in Milan in 1938.  In 1942, after the high school, he enrolled in Brera Academy, where he was a pupil of Francesco Messina.  There he met Giacomo Manzù, Achille Funi, Dario Fo, Bobo Piccoli, and Marino Marini, of whom he first became assistant and eventually succeeded as chair of Sculpture.
  His first exhibit was in 1945, at a young artists show.  His first personal exhibition was in 1951, at Galleria Colonna of Milan.  He exposed twice at Venice Biennale, in 1964 and 1972, both times in a personal room.  He undertook teaching duty in Brera for over 30 years, eventually becoming director.  Noteworthy his retrospective held at Royal Palace of Milan in 1992, named I luoghi circostanti (Surroundings).
  From 27 June to 9 September 2018 Palazzo Reale hosts another Alik Cavaliere exhibition. Entitled the green universe, the anthology focuses on the theme of nature, reconstructing the artist's journey through rendering aspects of luxuriance and suffering by representing plants.
  His body is buried at Cimitero Monumentale di Milano and his name is mentioned in the Famedio (hall of fame).
caption: Works by Alik Cavaliere photographed in 1970 by Paolo Monti at De' Foscherari gallery, Bologna
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