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After graduating from Captain Long Course, he served in the Navy. From 1951 to '54 sailing with the Merchant Navy. In recent years his main interest is literature, especially Franz Kafka, which begins to explain some novels ( America, The Process). Finally landed, he moved to Rapallo, where in the meantime had moved his family from Rome. For two years plans and designs fabrics in Santa Margherita Ligure, then joined the studio graphic Firma of Genoa and collaborates with the magazines business of Shell and Esso. Work in a more continuous Italsider See  The steel between the olive trees, Italsider, Taranto 1961 and The City of Iron, Genoa 1966. . In 1959, following a trip to Spain began work on a series of works made in oil on canvas, devoted to bullfighting. Since the early sixties, after a trip to the Soviet Union and a series of readings and research on international libertarian movement (including the book Victor Serge, which is considered essential for its formation by the artist, Memoirs of a Revolutionary), his attention is directed almost exclusively to social history: between 1963 and 1979 created paintings dedicated to some of the major and often traumatic events in the history of 'anarchy, drawing inspiration In particular, the major bombings in Italy, France, Spain and the United States in the late seventies of the nineteenth century and the second half of the twenties of the twentieth century. The main feature of these works is the attention to pinpoint references and iconography of the time, rebuilt with a very meticulous study and pictorial realization. In search of Costantini, the eighties onwards, the inability to escape from history and its consequences involves the perpetrators as victims, or is the result of mere chance events. A substantially absurd and imbued with a progressive skepticism in "salvation" personal and political expression that the artist in the series of works dedicated to the killing of Romanov as in those on the ocean liner disaster Titanic. Only chance of survival, artistic expression in all its forms: Costantini, ever since the eighties onwards, he made a series of portraits - in tempera and collage - of writers and poets, so returning the source of his inspiration, literature. One of the themes of his recent research are some events and characters of the French Revolution.

From a stylistic point of view, the entire work of Costantini has a totally personal and self: self-taught, the artist you've never hidden his dislike for the art world and the inability to recognize oneself in an artistic movement called. From the beginning, the same membership representation is belied by the prospect always unexpected and irregular proportions. The black line that outlines people and architecture - sometimes often, sometimes only a thin grid outlining the shadows - accompanies all its production and has become one of the distinguishing features of his paintings.

Costantini is also an illustrator of numerous books. Among the main focus of The Horse by Vladimir Majakovski j (1969, reprinted 2006) Vladimir Majakovski, The Fire Pony, Emme Edizioni, Milan and Nugae 1969, Genoa 2006.  Heart of Edmondo De Amicis (1977) Edmondo De Amicis, Heart, published by Olivetti, Milan 1977.  line Shadow by Joseph Conrad (1989) Joseph Conrad, The shadow line, Nuages ​​Editions, Milan 1989. , of Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky (1997) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, Nuages ​​Editions, 1997. . He worked with his illustrations in many national newspapers and magazines, including La Domenica del Corriere, Corriere della Sera, The Republic, L'Europeo, Panorama  and The Express and has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in Italy and abroad, including solo exhibitions include the annual Milan at Galleria del Naviglio "anarchists", Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, 1969, "The faut que les Poètes Meurent les premiers", Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, 1976, "Titanic disaster," Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, 1985.  and the gallery Arturo Schwarz] ] "Flavio Costantini", Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 1971. ; exhibitions at Ferrara Pavilion anthology of contemporary art, Massari Park, Ferrara, 1985. , the Triennial Milan "Costantini. Light of silence," Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, 2000 (catalog edited by A. Schwarz, Electa, Milan, 2000).  and the Museo Luzzati of Genoa "Costantini "Museo Luzzati, Genoa, 2010 (catalog edited by F. Danovaro, M. Fochessati, Nugae, Genoa, 2010). ; participation in the XLII edition of [[Venice Biennale " Art and Alchemy ", by A. Schwarz, XLII International Art Exhibition, La Biennale, Venice, 1986. .

Since 2008, in memory of a lifetime, Flavio Costantini is president of the International Museum Emanuele Luzzati of Genoa.

On July 1, 2011, in Genoa, was established the Association Archive Flavio Costantini that promotes, enhances, protects and disseminates knowledge of the artist. Notes == == References == == '' Flavio Costantini. Romancero Anarchiste'', Eric Losfeld, Paris 1973.

'' Flavio Costantini. '' The Art of Anarchy, Cienfuegos Press, London 1975.

Flavio Costantini, Peter Favari, Ravachol & Cia., Quadrangono Books, Conegliano 1975.

Jacques Baynac, Flavio Costantini, compagnons Ravachol et ses, Editions du Chene, Paris 1976.

Giorgio Soavi, "Flavio Costantini its prisons", in The dream continues, Rizzoli, Milan 1982.

'' Contemporary Masters. '' Costantini, text by Leonardo Sciascia, Vanessa, Milan 1983.

Giorgio Soavi, "Costantini", in The picture that I'm missing HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., Milan 1986.

'' The Gallery of the deposit. An avant-garde of the Sixties'' in Genoa, exhibition catalog, Neos, Genoa 2003.

Paola Pallottino, "Tears and poisons. Flavio Costantini and illustration of the Heart", in heart Journey around, exhibition catalog, Tormena, Genoa 2005.

External links == ==
 * Http://www.archivioflaviocostantini.org
 * Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2LG4yV9N4E
 * Http://www.museoluzzati.it/pag.php?id=2

Flavio Costantini