Av. San Juan 328, C1141 CABA, Argentina
Buenos Aires Museum of Contemporary Art
Av. San Juan 328, C1141 CABA, Argentina
Buenos Aires Museum of Contemporary Art
Alberto Biasi was born on June 2, in 1937 in Padua, Italy to a family of Giuseppe Biasi and Silvia Zappi Recordati.
His mother died during the Second World War, and he was sent to his paternal grandmother to a small village Carrara San Giorgio. So, during his childhood, Alberto communicated with local people and was raised in the ambience of a big family.
Among notable predecessors of Biasi were a 17th-century painter Lavinia Fontana and a poet Tirsi Leucasio.
Alberto Biasi finished the high school in his native Padua. Then, he studied architecture and technical drawing in Venice, Italy. There Biasi received a scholarship from Paolo Venini. It was this time, when the young artist started to explore the art movements of the 20th-century, like Neoplasticism, Futurism and Dada.
Alberto Biasi started his career in 1958 as a teacher of technical drawing, and ten years later he became the teacher of graphic arts applied to advertising. He had held the position till 1988. While teaching, Biasi developed himself as an artist and took part in various experimental art movements. So, in 1959, he was among the founders of the collective artist group Gruppo N along with Manfredo Massironi. The artist had contributed to the group till its dissolution in 1967.
By the 1960s, he had a huge circle of artistic contacts on the national and international level. He exhibited with such well-known artists by the time as Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani and collaborated with the New Artistic Conception group. In 1962, Biasi participated at the creation of the Arte Programmata movement.
Then, Alberto Biasi started the elaboration of his own artistic style based on the questions of visual perception and on the interaction between the viewer and the work. As a result, he produced such series, as Patterns, Optical-Dynamic Reliefs, Dynamic Forms, Photoreflections and Environments. Among the paintings from the latter were Great Dive into the rainbow, Echo and the triptych I am, you are, he is… therefore we are.
At the end of the 1970s, Alberto Biasi became a chairman of Padua’s provincial agency of tourism. While at the post, he accomplished a number of cultural and artistic tasks which enriched the cultural history of the city. As to his personal artistic activity, he continued his investigations, in particular, he worked with natural light. The examples of the creations included Polytypes (Politipi).
The Assemblages series of the 1990s often made in form of diptychs and triptychs became monochromatic. The new form of the art captured the artist’s attention this period – he began to work with sculpture. To create three-dimensional space in his large-sized works, Biasi used Weathering steel, aluminium and methacrylate.
During his career, Alberto Biasi had more than one hundred solo exhibitions and participated in a huge number of group shows in various galleries and museums, the most significant of which were the Venice Biennale (1964 and 1986), the Rome Quadrenniale (1973, 1986 and 2005), the São Paulo Art Biennial (1971), the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires (2013, 2014). His artworks were also demonstrated in London, New York City, Paris, Vienna, Rome, Lodz and Lubiana (both in Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia).
Alberto Biasi is a prolific and talented artist who contributed a lot to the development of the Italian an world art. So, he was among the pioneers of the Kinetic and Op Art and cofounded such artistic movements like Gruppo N and Arte Programmata.
Nowadays, the artworks of the artist can be seen in many well-known galleries and museums in Italy and all over the world, including the Modern Art Museum in New York, the Galleria Nazionale in Rome, the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the museums of Belgrade, Bolzano, Bratislava, Buenos Aires, Ciudad Bolivar, Epinal, Gallarate, Guayaquil, Livorno, Lodz, Ljubljana, Middletown, Padua, Prague, San Francisco, Saint Louis, Tokyo, Turin, Ulm, Venice, Waldenbuch, Wroclaw and Zagabria.
Dinamica Ottica
Untitled
Politipo Contrazione-Espansione
Drops in a Cage
Kinetic Optic
Dis Torsione
Untitled
Portrait of G
Politipo
Drops
Through without Touching
Untitled
Iridescent Ball n. 2
Untitled
Deception of Aphrodite
Dynamic Shield
Polyptych M
Triangular Dynamic
Tondi Inquieti
Wind Shapes ... at Night
Politipo
Blue Drops
Untitled
Alternate Dynamic
Chasing Each Other
Self-portrait
Circular Dynamic
Quotations: "I am a kind musical instrument manufacturer, the viewer is the musician, and the artwork is co-created by the artist and viewer."
