Claudio Abate, the contemporary art photographer, leaves us.

Photographer Claudio Abate, known for his photographs that documented decades of contemporary art as well as theater and film, passed away in Rocca di Papa at the age of seventy-four yesterday, Aug. 2. Breaking the news of the photographer’s passing were his children Giulia and Riccardo.

A career that began in 1959 with a studio he opened when he was only 16 years old. Among his high points were the famous photograph to the Horses of Jannis Kounellis in 1969 in the space “L’Attico” in Rome, the one to the Zodiac of Gino De Dominicis in 1970, and again the images taken to the protagonists ofArte Povera (Pino Pascali, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone... ) and to the big names of international art, such as Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys and Marina Abramovic.

Recently, in 2016, two exhibitions had been dedicated to him, one centered on photographs to Marisa and Mario Merz, at Spazio BOSS in Spezia, and the other on images of the great international artists passing through Rome (among them the aforementioned Beuys, and again Christo, Joseph Kosuth, Gilbert and George), held precisely in Rome, at the Zoo Zone Art Forum.

Claudio Abate, the contemporary art photographer, leaves us.

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