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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, will invite him to exhibit the paintings in his highly original venue in Ferrara. In 2012, the Municipality of San Giorgio di Piano commissioned his first solo exhibition, entitled Mechanisms of corrosion. In 2013, Rizzoli Editore Milano, as part of the series edited by Paolo Mieli, published The End of Culture, an essay by the famous British historian and writer Eric Hobsbawm. For the cover image, a work by Biagi will be chosen, entitled Barbacani, from 2007. In 2014 he exhibited at the Venice Arsenal, with the painting Metaldehyde, one of the finalists of the eighth international competition dedicated to visual arts: Art Award Lagoon. In the same year he participated in Art City Withe Night in collaboration with Arte Fiera Bologna - at Caffè della Corte, in Corte Isolani in Bologna. In 2015 he exhibited at the Cloister Madonna dell’Orto in Venice, with the painting Thymet, one of the finalist painters at the Giuseppe Gambino International Painting Award. In 2015, two decades after the pseudo-dissolution of Effetto Joule, Mannequin Records, a Berlin record company, reissued the Italian-dance song Robespierre, excellently remixed by the well-known Danish DJ Flemming Dalum. It follows a series of prestigious record publications.