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19.12.2014

Tornabuoni Art Paris will be presenting Alberto Biasi, iconic artist of the kinetic art

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Exhibition Alberto Biasi , march 27 to june 27, 2015
Tornabuoni Art
16 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris


Top :
Alberto Biasi, Senza titolo, 1998,
Courtesy Tornabuoni Art

Above :
Alberto Biasi in front of his work, Politipo, 1970,
Courtesy Tornabuoni Art

 

Catalogue of the exhibition with texts by Serge Lemoine available at the gallery

 

From March 27 until June 27, 2015 Tornabuoni Art has the pleasure of announcing an exhibition dedicated to the Italian artist, Alberto Biasi. Organized in close collaboration with the artist, this will be his first solo show with Tornabuoni Art Paris, centered on the important role he played and continues to play today in Kinetic art.
 

The exhibition brings together emblematic artworks of Alberto Biasi’s lifelong commitment to the study of movement started in 1959 when he founded Gruppo N. This selection of works shows the artist’s will to question the traditional conception of painting by challenging the “classic” perspective and focusing his attention on retinal expriments and visual effects of his works.

Born in 1937 in Padua, Alberto Biasi was among the top-level class of Industrial Design at the Institute of Architecture in Venice and cofounded Gruppo N in 1959 with Ennio Chiggio, Toni Costa, Edoardo Landi and Alfredo Massironi. With them he conducted his first “opticodynamic” experiments that brought him to participate in 1960 in exhibitions dedicated to lumino-kinetic art alongside Enrico Castellani, Piero Manzoni.

In the beginning of the 1960s, he began his study of the Trame (Trame), superimpositions of cotton gauzes, metallic wiring or perforated postcards, gradually twisted to form variable and progressive constellations. He continued his work through the 2000s with his Rilievi otticodinamici (Optico-dynamic Reliefs).

He paid tribute to Lucio Fontana in his 1960 Torsioni (Twists) where the canvases were entirely cut into strips, then recomposed to form different shapes and torsions. The torsions seem to change according to the viewer’s position in front of the canvas, creating moving geometrical configurations. Later came the Ambienti (Spaces), seen as experimental spaces where the image of a drawing coexists with reality, offering the viewer the feeling of visual, spatial and temporal instability.

Following the dissolution of the Gruppo N in 1967, Alberto Biasi started a more personal research on forms and movement with his Politipi (Polyptychs), a complex cycle he continued to work on through the 1990s in which he gradually adds color and more figurative shapes. Since the early 2000s, Biasi has been synthesizing his multiple experiments that have contributed to the international recognition of Kinetic Art, creating in particular the Assemblaggi (Assemblages), primarily diptychs and triptychs made of plastic and impressive colours.
 


Top :
Alberto Biasi, Senza titolo, 1998,
Courtesy Tornabuoni Art

Above :
Alberto Biasi in front of his work, Politipo, 1970,
Courtesy Tornabuoni Art

 

Catalogue of the exhibition with texts by Serge Lemoine available at the gallery

 

About

Exhibition Alberto Biasi , march 27 to june 27, 2015
Tornabuoni Art
16 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris