Flavio Biagi

Flavio Biagi, born in 1973 in San Pietro in Casale BO, in 1989 obtained the title of author and composer S.I.A.E. and begins the artistic partnership with his brother Valerio, with whom he founded the electro-pop group Effetto Joule. After the self-production of some demo-tapes, in 1989 an Italian label recorded their first disc on vinyl, entitled Robespierre. The artistic partnership of the Biagi brothers will continue with other musical projects.
In the meantime, Flavio conducts humanistic studies and in 2002 he graduated in Philosophy. Parallel to his musical and university career, his passion for the figurative arts develops. He will learn the various techniques of drawing and painting at the School of Crafts of the Cento-Pieve area, under the direction of the masters Nicola and Matteo Nannini, and the rudiments of digital graphics at the specialized Cappellari Institute in Ferrara. In 2003 he began collaborating with various fashion studios, as a stylistic graphic designer, in the creation of clothing and collectibles for well-known national and international brands.
In 2006 his first exhibition opportunities presented themselves. In 2007 the far-sighted singer-songwriter Vasco Brondi, of Le Luci della Centrale Elettrica, wi...

During my adolescence I lived in front of the Chimiren plant, a chemical industry located in the countryside of Ferrara, in full swing in the early 80s.
After collecting photographs and documentary material on the factory, I set up a strictly didactic project of industrial archeology, which could evoke images of a certain working reality. Later I had the need to graphically represent those places, starting from the latent memory present in my mind.
My paintings reproduce an industrial microcosm, in which I found myself, almost like a sort of exile from the rest of the world. At the same time I grew up preserved from a dynamic-work context, made up of positive human relationships and full of exemplary moral values.

Dino Buzzati, in his famous story, improperly uses the term Barbican, indicating an industrial glimpse. This word, which originally means fortification of fortresses and castles, becomes synonymous with a factory, an industrial structure. I decided to take possession of this name and define Barbacani my paintings of factories, where the immense ferrous constructions stand like fortresses and become my protective shield, an impregnable refuge from the outside world and the precariousness of life.
Although the subject...

EXHIBITIONS

2019
Serravezza (LU) – Premio Internazionale Michelangelo Buonarroti 5. a Edizione – Palazzo Mediceo (collettiva)
Ferrara – Transvision – Hotel Torre della Vittoria
Trieste – Transvision Trieste – Mostra itinerante in sei caffè storici del centro città – Patrocino del Comune di Trieste e Legambiente Trieste circolo Verdeazzurro
Ferrara – Galleria d’Arte Cloister – Nel mese di San Sebastiano – a cura di Lucio Scardino (collettiva)

2018
Forte dei Marmi (LU) – Premio Internazionale Michelangelo Buonarroti 4. a Edizione – Villa Bertelli (collettiva)

2017
Livorno – Premio Combat Prize 2017 – presente su Catalogo Mostra – (collettiva)
Cento FE – Contemplazioni – Festa del Teatro e delle Arti a Cento – Fondazione Zanandrea (collettiva)
Basilea (Svizzera) – The Artbox.Project Basel 1.0 presso Euroairport Basel, Trainstation: Euroairport (collettiva)
Rubiera (RE) – Galleria d’Arte Tiziana Severi Arte Contemporanea

2016
Rubiera (RE) – Tiziana Severi Arte Contemporanea – C9 | Land Emilia – (collettiva)
Rubiera (RE) – Corte Ospitale – C9 | Land Emilia – a cura di Francesca Baboni e Stefano Taddei (collettiva)
Ferrara – “Sebastiano Ferrarese” – Banca Mediolanum – a cura di Lucio Scardino – (collettiva)

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