KINETIC!
“Alberto Biasi”, Until June 27, Galerie Tornabuoni Art, 16, avenue Matignon, Paris 8, T +33(0)1 53 53 51 51. www.tornabuoniart.fr
For the first time in its space in Paris and in collaboration with artist Alberto Biaso (born in Padova in 1937), the Tornabuoni Art gallery is devoting an exhibition to the crucial role played by Biasi in the history of kinetic art. Gathering emblematic works for that movement which Biasi enrolled in as early as 1959, this show is evidence of the artist's determination to call into question the traditional conception of painting and the use of “classical” perspective by working solely on retinal phenomena and on the effects that the works have on visitors. In 1959 Biasi was one of the co-founders of the Gruppo N movement with Ennio Chiggio, Toni Costa, Edoardo Landi and Alfredo Massironi. With that group he carried out his first “optico-dynamic” experiments that in 1960 brought him to participate in exhibitions dedicated to lumino-kinetic art alongside Enrico Castellani, Piero Manzoni and artists of the New Artistic Conceptions and Nuove Tendenze (New Art Practice) movements. The exhibition brings together emblematic artworks from his series of Trame, Rilievi ottico-dinamici, Torsioni, Ambienti, Politipi and Assemblaggi.