Lorenzo Piemonti

Lorenzo Piemonti was born in 1935 in Carate, not far from Milan in the area known as Brianza, where he still continues to live in one of the city's nineteenth-century working-class houses. He has captured the attention of critics in Italy as well as abroad ever since beginning to work with sculptures that find their primary matrix in numbers, and in the construction of three-dimensional progressions on the manifold variations of numerical sequences.
The figurative arts are by no means allen to Piemonti's activities (one remembers the period of the works in which he dealt with the theme of the "sewing machine") but since the middle of the 1960s he has preferred to pursue a path where mental discipline and logical rigor, coupled with manual expertise, concentrate into a synthesis ot which the impact is equally visual and environmental.
Piemonti matured as an artist during the decade he spend in central Switzerland, in close contact with the major protagonists' of Swiss Concrete Art, and since tha time he has moved in highly individual directions, as witnessed by his "chromoplastic" works - cromoplastici MADI' - and by his recent series of "accelerations".
Along with a representative of the Argentinean movement, he was the fo...