Italian painter, born in 1933 in Naples, died in 1983 in Paris.
Life
Guido Biasi trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. In 1953, with his friend Mario Colucci, he went to Milan to meet Enrico Baj and drew close to the Nuclear Painting movement. In 1957 he signed the manifesto Per una pittura organica with Colucci, Piero Manzoni and others, and wrote the Albisola Marina manifesto.
In 1958 he took part in founding Gruppo 58 in Naples and wrote its first manifesto, which linked the group to the Milanese Nuclear movement. From 1958 to 1962 he ran the Neapolitan review Documento Sud, where he published polemical texts against the fashion for the Informel and defended the discarded object, which he saw as “the fantastical revenge of things in revolt”.
Having settled in Paris in 1960, he became the correspondent of Documento Sud and joined Édouard Jaguer’s Phases movement. He also contributed to the reviews Edda, Direzioni and Front unique, and took part in the Surrealist exhibitions in New York in 1960 and 1961.
The work
His painting, subjective and visionary, feeds on his memories; he grouped some of these works under the name Mnemotech. His most important solo exhibition took place in 1965 at the Galleria Levante in Rome. He went on to exhibit at the São Paulo Biennial, the Salon de la jeune peinture, Comparaisons and the Salon de mai, as well as in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Brussels. A retrospective, Opere 1953-1980, was shown in Baronissi in 2010.
Exhibitions and collections
- Surrealist exhibitions, New York, 1960 and 1961
- Galleria Levante, Rome, 1965
- Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, 1973; Galleria Blu, Milan, 1974
- At the Sources of Convulsive Beauty (section Édouard Jaguer and the Phases movement), Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, Paris, 25 October to 30 November 2024