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biography artist Alfio Frisina was born in 1972 in had a great influence on his From 2005, his first architectural alfio frisina 1972 Basel. Between 1976 and 1978, thinking and his way of seeing works were realised by Frisina he lived with his grandparents the world. Already at that time Architects. At the same time, www.frisina.ch in Sicily. In 1979, he returned he was starting to develop ideas he began to get involved with info@frisina.ch to Basel. He attended primary about creating works of art. At photography. His works are in school in a religious Italian con- the ETH, he began autodidacti- permanent relation to society, vent school, where he made his cally to engage himself with psychology, the relationship bet- first acquaintance with history philosophical literature and bio- ween appearance and being. In and religion. In high school, and graphies of major philosophers. addition, he deals intensively with with the realisation that people In so doing he definitively gave dream perception and its consist of atoms just like a table up his religious view of the world symbolic character. or other objects do, he began to and realised a new conception of have his first doubts about strict, his identity: Man is not individual, religious conviction. as has been accepted since the Renaissance period, but rather In 2000, he began his architec- a necessary part of nature and ture studies at the ETH Zurich. society. Everything is bound Subjects such as art history or together and inseparable. the history of urban development 92 93