Carlo Cazals, Painter and Opera Singer

Biography

	1948 born in Hamburg, Germany.
	1967 Studied painting and arts. Art history and literature: Gertrud Pirsch (dramatic adviser and arts reviewer, Berlin). Corrector of the paintings: Prof. Grimm (Fachkunsthochschule Hamburg) Vocal studies: Gertrud Pirsch, voice formation and Prof. Alfred Borchard (senior professor at the College of Music, Tokyo) and Udo Bartels (Corepetitor of the Hamburger Staatsoper). Carlo Cazals wants to express his gratitude to his teachers Prof. Eduard Bageer (painting) and Karl August Ohrt (sculpture).
	1975 study trip to Italy and France.
	1976 studied in Paris and Munich. Since then Cazals lives withdrawn from the public, painting in an obsessive manner, expressionistic, surrealistic, psychological fantastic realism, psychogrammes, satiric works. Exhibitions are shown only in very private shows.
	1984-1994 Cazals was forced to pause from his beloved painting, while he nursed his teacher Gertrud Pirsch.
	Since 1995 he has concerts and exhibitions in Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, concerts at the Volksbühne in Berlin, in Nejmegen, Amsterdam, in the „Halle K“ of the Barlach gallery, and in the new Hamburger Musiktheater.
	1997 development of the Grotesque Irrationalism.
	1999 moved to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lives here withdrawn from the public.
	Exhibitions: Since 1984 he has a permanent exhibition at the Auktionshaus Kuhlmann and Struck, Hamburg ++ Fall 1984 Vesper gallery, Hamburg ++ 1994 and 1995 Auktionshaus Schopmann, Hamburg ++ Fall 1995 Burgtheater Ratzeburg ++ Spring 1996 Lauenburgische Akademie, Mölln ++ 1997 Kunstverein Kühlungsborn buys 40 graphics ++ May-June 1998 City Hall Syke ++ Summer/Fall 1998 Prison Ückermünde ++ Fall 1998 Altonaer Theater, Hamburg ++ Since 1998 permanent exhibition in Frauenmark Castle, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ++ 1999-2001 exhibition at the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung ++ 1999 Cloister St. Marien Angermünde ++ 1999 Wannsee gallery, Berlin ++ Spring 2000 Kulturhistorisches Museum Stralsund (Cazals will donate all his works to this museum). ...more about see biography German version.
About the artist
Carlo Cazals - a philosopher who expresses himself through his paintings. A musician with a voice scope of 3,5 octaves that is heated by passion and forged in pain. With his tenor voice, Cazals sings mainly Italien arias while with his bass voice, he accompanies with his guitar, folk songs and shanties. Cazals feels bored and sometimes even irritated by an uncultivated and misleading modern civilization. Thus he withdrew to the rural life and chose the remote location and anonymity that Mecklenburg-Vorpommern offers. Grotesque Irrationalism - consider it the opposite of paintings people would buy to match their sofa. Cazals work takes thought to digest yet offers a valuable guide to the audience´s imagination. Those who are not scared of their own drives and instincts will always discover the beauty, the optimism and the satire in his paintings. His drawings are influenced by literature and express a compulsory need to revolutionize. With their humourous touch on one hand and a pathological drive behind his drawings on the other hand, they provoke a sensitive consideration of the theme that sets no limit to ones fantasy. Paintings and drawings are regarded as an object to research, which are intended to clarify the background of human existence, via the genres of expressionism, surrealism, psychological fantastic realism, psychogrammes, satire. On this foundation, Cazals developes this new style - Grotesque Irrationalism. The Singer Cazals: When Cazals sings, he pours his soul into his audience. Without regard for critics he delivers a powerful performance opening the raw of his emotion and the sharp edge of his intellect. A shanty that one may have heard a hundred times before sounds like the first performance when he sings it. A Toselli spring romance aria sounds as if he had written it solely for Cazals to sing it. Cazals performances are far too seldom considering they absorb so much of his energy. But for those who had the fortune to hear him once, they will undoubtedly try to attend each of his performances in the future.