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Remo Bianco

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Johan & Levi
A multifaceted artist difficult to classify, Remo Bianco (1922–1988) was a protagonist of the most vibrant art scenes from the postwar years onwards. He gained his first experience with Filippo de Pisis, later becoming acquainted with Pollock’s Action Painting and Abstract Expressionism in the United States. In Milan, he embraced Luciano Fontana’s Spatialism and the cultural milieu of Carlo Cardazzo, establishing with the latter an important and lasting relationship that would bind him to the Naviglio and Cavallino galleries throughout his career. In the 1970s he strengthened his relationships in Paris, especially those with the critic Pierre Restany and the artist Raymond Hains. His research was characterized by an extraordinary creative vitality and constant experimentation, resulting in cycles of works that reinterpret the most modern languages in a highly-individual way. These include CollagesImpronte, Tableaux dorésAppropriazioni, Arte Chimica and Quadri viventi.

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La dittatura della fantasia - Collage autobiografico
A lengthy hospital stay forces Remo Bianco to stop and assess his life, «The way sailors at sea control their course, calculating the exact distance from the destination». The year is 1982, and the artist feels his journey, begun in the inauspicious year of 1922 - the first of Italy’s fascist regime - is near. He leaves in his wake an eclectic body of work as daring as any avant-gardist’s: from his Spatialist period under the influence of Fontana to the more conceptual series and performances done in the orbit of the Cardazzo brothers, often in advance of French experimental art, plus the collages which followed his discovery of Pollock, and now appear to have inspired his approach to tying his recollections together.Remo Bianco seems to enjoy rearranging the pieces of his existence, inserting the results of urography and gastroscopy exams in his assemblages rather than following the banal pattern of birth, childhood, adolescence and maturity, a zigzag approach in keeping with his anarchic instincts. Memories, thoughts on art, ideas for future works and projects interweave and overlap. Every page of these “notes” confirms his multifaceted capacity to take whatever life brings – loves, literature, encounters, travels – and use it to produce wild, poetic flights of fancy, such as his idea for replacing the bell tower of St. Mark’s Basilica with an enormous pagoda.Framing this caldron of unfettered creativity are a number of extremely humorous, occasionally ribald anecdotes that include noteworthy fellow adventurers, such as de Pisis, Joppolo and Hains. Bianco leaves in the salacious parts, confirming his belief that an autobiography should «show the dirty linen, meaning the truth». With a preface by Sharon Hecker.
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La dittatura della fantasia

Collage autobiografico

Remo Bianco

pages: 244 pages

A lengthy hospital stay forces Remo Bianco to stop and assess his life, «The way sailors at sea control their course, calculating the exact distance from the destination». The year is 1982, and the artist feels his journey, begun in the inauspicious year of 1922 - the first of Italy’s fascist regime - is near. He leaves in his wake an eclectic
 

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