Alberto Biasi
Bio
(Italy, 1937, currently lives and works in Padua, Italy). A protagonist of post-war Italian art, he was born in Padua, Italy, in 1937. He studied industrial design at the Istituto d'Architettura in Venice. In 1959 he began his career as a sculptor and painter. That year he formed Gruppo N, with which he worked until 1967. In 1961 he joined the "New Tendencies" movement. The following year he participated in the foundation of Arte Progammata, together with Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari and the T Group. Biasi has exhibited in more than one hundred solo shows and participated in more than four hundred group exhibitions, including the XXXII and XLII Venice Biennial, the XI Biennial of San Paolo, the X, XI and XIV Quadrennial of Rome. In 2006, he presented a retrospective at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. His works can be found at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Galleria Nazionale in Rome and museums in Belgrade, Buenos Aires, Guayaquil and St. Petersburg, among many others.
Statement
Alberto Biasi seeks to characterize his creative work through various techniques and uses of materials that give life to his visual manifestations. While participating in the "New Tendencies" movement and the "No" Group, he created the wefts that represent the artist's first experiments, composed of superimpositions of materials belonging to the same typology, such as cotton gauze, metal mesh and perforated paper, stacked and progressively rotated to create variable and progressive constellations. The series of wefts is soon followed by the series of Optical-dynamical Elevations, linear and luminous configurations.
After the experience of Group N, Alberto Biasi continues his research on the interaction between the spectator and the work of art, where the latter are activated by the presence of a receiver that constantly interacts with the numerous visual and perceptive stimuli produced by the work.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
