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Joel Peter Witkin 1939 -

Born in Brooklyn , New York in an Itlaian- Russian catholic family. Witkin buys a Reflex Rolleicord camera in 1955 and begins a quest to immortalize the revelation of the sacred unseen world. Seeing in the bodies oand eyes of "freaks" the extraordinary and infinite will of God, in lack of original models Witkin at times recreates fantastic and grottesque scenes with bizzarre characters and settings full of metaphores representing the enigma of life. Seduced by mythological super heroes and esestential nonsense as proof of the manifestation of the devine. In 1961 he joins the army as photographer to document the dead soldiers. From 1970- 1974 he returns to Cooper Union School of Art where he gets a degree in sculpture. In 1975 he leaves New York and goes to New Mexico where he elaborates a new personal language in which photography and sculpture, graphic and manual artistry create the extraordinary language Witkins now uses to express his dreams and nightmares. In this 1995 interview at the Castello Rivoli in Turin we spoke of life and art, the metaphysics of the flesh and the influence Classic European art has had in his work.

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KEITH HARING 1958-1990

Keith Haring born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania started to draw at an early age inspired by cartoons on television. He studied at the Ivy School of Art in Pittsburgh where he drew and painted on T-shirts. In 1978 he moved to New York to study at the School of Visual Arts and became a fixture of the East Village club scene. In the 80's Haring began Graffiti Art, decorating advertisements in the New York Subway with his magic markers a series of narratives designed with white chalk on the black billboard paper of unused advertising spaces. His choice of imagery included means of communication like televisions and telephones, references to nuclear energy, childlike bodies.He embraced popular culture and hoped to break down the barriers between high art and low art.Haring provoked considerable debate both on street level and within the art establishment.