Giuseppe Biasio (1928) - Verso oriente

Work by master Giuseppe Biasio
Published on page 65 of Castke on a cloud

year 1980

mixed media on canvas

1980
Giuseppe Biasio (Piazzola sul Brenta - Padua, 1928) has shown his artistic talent since childhood, so that the artist Dino Lazzaro, as early as the fourth grade, took him along and taught him the basics of painting. He attends the Selvatico Institute in Padua where Amleto Sartori, his Plastics teacher, makes him understand that his vocation is to become an artist. Soon circumstances push him to go to Venezuela in search of work. He visits the museums of Caracas, but contact with local artists, who are too realistic, will not influence his art. On returning to Italy he is fascinated by the Great Masters; he looks to Caravaggio, but always with his own singular interpretation. He frequents the Venetian circles where he meets Rauschenberg in 1964. This encounter is important because, from the start, Biasio absorbs and interprets in his own way the Master’s lesson, translating it into his painting language. In 1969 he exhibits in Milan at the gallery “G 15.” Subsequently he exhibits in Padua at the galleries “Jaccarino” and “La Chiocciola.” His passion for Eastern cultures leads him to significant experiences abroad. He stays eight months in Saudi Arabia and exhibits in Tehran and Shiraz. During this experience he sustains himself exclusively by selling his works. Upon his return to Italy he frequents Emilio Vedova’s Venetian studio, with whom he participates in a study stay in Salzburg. He participates in numerous exhibitions, particularly the Biennales of Triveneta Art and the Pettenon Prize. In 1981, together with Guglielmo Capuzzo, Guido Dragani, Antonio Sassu, Maurizio Stefanato and Antonio Zago, he founded the Veneto Group for Artistic Promotion LA MATITA. After years of quiet work in the city of the Saint, his work returns to the spotlight in 2008, which certainly marks his year. The artist turns eighty years old. In April he holds a prestigious solo show at the Anfiteatro gallery. In September the Padua Public Administration dedicates to him a retrospective exhibition at the Rinascente gallery. At the end of the year he is chosen among Padua’s artists for the usual 2009 calendar published by Fotolito Express of Limena, now in its XII edition.