Gastone Biggi - Fleurs 28 "Redyellow"

The work draws on an Informal aesthetic language. The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge led to a complete rejection of any visual language, resulting in the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to the gestural component, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the material from which their works are composed.

Gastone Biggi's pictorial research in this work centers on the pictorial sign, with both conceptual and formal relevance. For Biggi, the pictorial sign, often circular, can be considered a primordial biological element, a sort of cellular organism from which life can be generated and, consequently, the composition on the canvas. Biggi, in his artistic process, follows this organic development of the sign and, through a gestural pictorial practice, highlights its multiple directions, its infinite possibilities for growth, proliferation, and interaction with space. All this is always accompanied by an exuberant yet balanced color palette within the overall work.

Gastone Biggi was born in Rome in 1925 and passed away in Langhirano in 2014. In addition to being a painter, he was also a sculptor, musicologist, and writer. His artistic career began in 1947, but it was in 1962 that his key work, "Birth of a Point," was published. It laid out the foundation for his lifelong exploration of the sign module. This exploration culminated in the formation of Gruppo 1 that same year. Gastone Biggi held exhibitions in major Italian cities and abroad, including Montreal, Moscow, New Delhi, Stockholm, New York, Boston, Niigata in Japan, London, Madrid, Banja Luka, and Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela.

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