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Giuliano Barbanti (1936 - 2022) was born in Sesto San Giovanni in 1936. At the age of fourteen, he enrolled at the Federico Faruffini art school in Sesto San Giovanni. Read the full biography

Giuliano Barbanti (1936 - 2022) was born in Sesto San Giovanni in 1936. At the age of fourteen, he enrolled at the Federico Faruffini art school in Sesto San Giovanni. In 1952 he began working as an advertising graphic designer and at the same time continued his studies in art and began frequenting art galleries and artists' studios. In 1961 with a group of young artists he opened the "Il Giorno" gallery and in 1962 he opened a studio in the Quartiere delle Botteghe also in Sesto San Giovanni, where Bonalumi, Castellani, Festa, Forgioli were already operating. His first solo exhibition took place in 1966 at the Centro Culturale Ricerca in Sesto. It is important to place Giuliano Barbanti's early artistic efforts in the vibrant and vital context of Italian art of the 1950s and 1960s. The art and exhibition market was concentrated in Milan, Rome, Venice and Turin, which also played a significant role in the aesthetic discussion. The galleries were connected to international circuits. The pace at which exhibitions were organized was frenetic, and Giuliano Barbanti was particularly moved by the Mondrian exhibition held at the Palazzo Reale in Milan. In response to an informal debut in which color and form are inserted into a two-dimensional space without perspective, starting from the mid-1960s Barbanti began to incorporate the modular dimension marked by rigid backgrounds into his works. The essential, almost exclusive use of the airbrush is fundamental in the artist's creative process. The few changes to the frame are what keep the boundaries of the painting in play. Giuliano Barbanti has participated in numerous group exhibitions, in 1976 he was invited to the Venice Biennale; one of his works is preserved at the Museum of Contemporary Italian Art in Durazzo and one is preserved at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas. From 1980 to 2017 he was the director of the Federico Faruffini Civic School of Art in Sesto San Giovanni.