Alberto Biasi biography

- ALBERTO BIASI ARTIST

 

Alberto Biasi is an Italian artist and one of the main exponents of kinetic art as well as one of the founders of the historic Gruppo N.

Born in Padua in 1937. Orphaned by his mother, he spends much of his childhood with his paternal grandmother in Carrara San Giorgio in the province of Padua. At the end of the war, he returns to his hometown where he then attends classical high school and later enrolls in the Faculty of Architecture in Venice first and then in the Higher Course of Industrial Design. After completing his studies, in 1958 he obtains the chair of advertising graphic arts at the Professional Institute of Padua.

In 1959, Alberto Biasi participated in various young art events and, with some fellow architecture students, formed the Gruppo Enne-A. In 1960, he exhibited alongside Enrico Castellani, Piero Manzoni, Agostino Bonalumi, and other European artists at the Galleria Azimut in Milan.

In 1961, the artist joined the "Nuove tendenze" movement, and in 1962, as Gruppo N, exhibited with Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari, and the Milanese Gruppo T in the first exhibition of Programmed Art at the Olivetti Store in Milan.

During this period, he creates the Trame, which represent the artist's first experiments and are composed of overlapping materials of the same type, such as cotton gauze, metal meshes, and perforated papers, stacked and progressively rotated to create variable and progressive constellations.

The series of Plots is soon followed by that of the Optical-Dynamic Reliefs, linear and luminous configurations placed on two different planes spaced a few centimeters apart, of the Twists and the Environments such as the Light prisms.

After the experience with Gruppo N, Alberto Biasi continues his exploration of the interaction between the viewer and the artwork. In the 1970s, he developed the Politipi, characterized by the overlapping of multiple planes and the multiple interweaving of slats, thus alluding to the third dimension. At the end of the 1990s, he created the Assemblaggi which represent figural memories, mostly accompanied by witty and surprising titles.

Over the course of his sixty-year career, Alberto Biasi has participated in many international exhibitions, and his works are part of prestigious public and private collections in Italy and abroad.