Carlo Buzzi

Carlo Buzzi is an Italian artist, known for his work in the urban context.

He uses the tools of advertising. Normally he works on interventions involving the urban context, using the common typographic poster. A significant number of posters is exposed in public posting. The procedure is then documented photographically. The work is then formalized through the production of a limited number of “pictures”.

Carlo Buzzi made the first “public” operation in 1990, in collaboration with gallery owner Luciano Inga-Pin in Milan. It involved the purchase of a page on the magazine Flash Art. This page showed the image of an ordinary toilet brush, with the word “PICASSO” on the top and the writing “20-22 hours” at the bottom of it.

In 1991, the same subject was published in the streets of Milan on a poster, with a regular posting. Formal construction (simulation of “fake event”) and praxis (exposure with regularly paid taxes, never abusive) indicate the desire of the artist to break into the public arena in “tiptoe”, as opposed to the ideological connotations that characterize some contemporary or slightly previous works, made in the same sphere by others artists.

Later on, due to a gradual “appropriation” of the media used by the artist,...

2016. CARLO BUZZI+ FABRIZIO PARACHINI. MEMORIES CAN’T WAIT. MILANO. THECA GALLERY
2016. STRADARIO. TORINO. PAOLO TONIN ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
2016. OTHER IDENTITY. GENOVA. Loggia delle Mercamzie
2015. THE SCREAM. Surplace Artspace | Varese
2015. MILANO SGUARDI SULLA CITTA’ (1990-2015): Carlo Buzzi, Jonathan Guaitamacchi. AZIMUT Investment Fund with Theca Gallery
2014. MIRAGGI. ABBIATEGRASSO (MI), PALAZZO CITTADINI STAMPA
2014. Corbetta (MI), PALAZZO COMUNALE, SALA DELLE COLONNE
2014. ICON. LUGANO (CH). THECA GALLERY
2014. CORPI SPECIALI. SARONNO. CAMERA DI COMMERCIO ITALO-URUGUAYANA
2014. BERGAMO. THECA GALLERY | Bergamo Arte Fiera
2013. QUATTRO SENZA. STUDIO APEIRON. SOVICO (MB)
2013. ANTOLOGIA PUBBLICA (Opere Scelte 1990-2013). LUGANO (CH)
2013. ANTOLOGIA PUBBLICA (Opere Scelte 1990-2013). CAMPIONE d’ITALIA. MUSEO MUSEO CIVICO
2013. MILANO. ARTE ACCESSIBILE. 12-13-14 aprile 2013. Building Sole 24 Ore
2012. SOTTO LA BUONA STELLA. MUSEO D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA DI VILLA CROCE. GENOVA
2009. MANIFESTI D’ARTISTA. TRIESTE
2007. DAL SOGNO AL SEGNO. LEGNANO [MI]. PALAZZO LEONE DA PEREGO
2005. METAFISICA NATURALE. MOZZATE [CO]. VILLA SCALABRINO
2004. FUORI LUOGO O INOPPORTUNO. BORGOMANERO (NO). FONDAZIONE ACHILLE MARAZZA
2002. UN.BODY. O’ ARTOTEC...