Alberto Biasi biography

- ALBERTO BIASI ARTIST

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

He was born in Padua in 1937. Orphaned of his mother, he spent much of his childhood with his paternal grandmother in Carrara San Giorgio in the province of Padua. At the end of the war, he returned to his hometown where he then attended classical high school and later enrolled at the Faculty of Architecture of Venice first and at the Advanced Course of Industrial Design later. After finishing his studies, in 1958 he obtained the chair of advertising graphic arts at the Professional Institute of Padua.

In 1959 Alberto Biasi participated in various youth artistic events and with some peers studying Architecture formed the Gruppo Enne-A. In 1960 he exhibited together with Enrico Castellani, Piero Manzoni, Agostino Bonalumi and other European artists at the Galleria Azimut in Milan.

In 1961 the artist joined the “New Tendencies” 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 created the Trame which represent the artist’s first experiments and are composed of overlapping materials belonging to the same type, such as cotton gauzes, metal meshes and perforated papers, stacked and progressively rotated to create variable and progressive constellations.

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

After the Gruppo N experience, Alberto Biasi continued his investigation into the interaction between spectator and artwork. In the Seventies 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 Nineties he created the Assemblages which represent figurative 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 artworks are part of prestigious public and private collections in Italy and abroad.