


Franco Beltrametti (1937- 1995) was a visual artist and writer whose work brought together many artists in Europe, North America and Japan through the force of his publications, collaborations, and performance events. While he spend much of his life in his native region of Ticino, Switzerland, he also lived and worked in Japan, California, New York, and Italy. Major exhibitions of his visual work include Choses qui voyagent (Venezia-Milano- Marseille-Paris 1996) and Franco Beltrametti (Mendresio 1999).