LA DANZA DELLA LUCE
Alberto Biasi
Curated by Andrea Dall’Asta SJ
March 19th, 2025 – from 6 to 8 PM
Galleria and Museo San Fedele – via Hoepli 3A, Milan
In collaboration with Galleria Allegra Ravizza
March 20th – May 03rd, 2025
The exhibition dedicated to Alberto Biasi (Padua, 1937), master of optic-dynamic art, offers a journey through about twenty of the most significant works of his artistic career, ranging from his earliest Trame to the renowned Torsioni, culminating in the spectacular Light Prism and the permanent installation where the luminescent surfaces of the walls serve as a visible memory of the spectator’s passage, as though the viewer were symbolically stepping into another dimension. Titled Becoming Light, it has been specifically designed for a space that opens onto the apse of the church of San Fedele.
The exhibition is a journey through the extraordinary output of an artist whose work has yet to be fully explored, particularly in terms of his infinite capacity to impose – upon what appears to our gaze as disorder and chaos – structures of order through numbers and mathematical proportions according to a harmonic-musical ideal. As Dino Formaggio writes in a splendid text on the artist, Biasi, in his interplay between art and science, brings to life the highest ideals of the Italian Renaissance:
“For here we are dealing with one of the last genuinely Renaissance manifestations of an ideal of experimental and systematic collaboration between science and art, between nature and mathematics, between dynamic organizations of senses and signs and rigorously phenomenological structures of intuitive units, in their interrelations of perception, memory, and imagination.”
The exhibition features a white Achrome by Piero Manzoni from the collection of the Museo San Fedele, and a work with a black surface by Alberto Biasi, in an unprecedented dialogue between the two artists regarding the meaning of perception. It is a small tribute/narrative to the history of an old friendship that, together with his relationship with other “young artists,” gave birth to a European movement that revolutionized the history of art from the 1960s onward.
Through the exhibition, the artist makes explicit the symbolic-design possibilities that, from nothing, lead to the creation of works that, constructed with superimposed strips, modular surfaces, and optic-dynamic structures, engage in the imaginary play of appearances of reality through the movement of those who accept to begin the dance of the continuous metamorphosis of the world with them. And so, it is as if the Trame, Torsioni, and Optico-dynamics were playing a music that accompanies the ever-changing harmonies of Light. It is the glory of vision! It is the dance of Light!
Via Hoepli 3A, Milan
Opening time of Gallery: from Tuesday to Sunday, 2.00-6.00 PM
Opening time of Museum: from Wednesday to Sunday, 2.00-6.00 PM