Andrea Bassani Biography
Andrea Bassani was born in 1954 in Martinengo, where he currently lives and works. As a self-taught artist, he frequented several painters' studios. He began his artistic journey in figurative art and then moved on to abstract solutions that best suited his communicative intentions and artistic sensitivity. He began exhibiting his works in 1971. Andrea Bassani's creations go beyond the normal concept of a painting. They go beyond the boundaries of the canvas and become sculptures. The boards are cut into different shapes and then assembled together to create a single element. Form and color are the perfect synthesis of the meaning of his works, a continuous experimentation with shapes and colors, in a constant and tireless search for final perfection. Andrea Bassani's research tends on the one hand to the recovery of non-subversive, projective avant-gardes, aimed at the utopian-realistic elaboration of a world organized according to reason (such as Russian Constructivism, De Stijl, Bauhaus, Concrete Art, etc.), and, on the other, taking charge of the processes of individual and, therefore, collective memory" (Extract from the critical text "Andrea Bassani and expressive concretism" written by GA). The artist exhibited for the first time in the 1970s and his artistic path is a long path of experimentation which over the years has led to the definition of a unique and original artistic language. Color and form, painting and sculpture merge in his works in a "dynamic balance" in which anthropomorphic, clear and elegant shapes. they are organized within the composition. His works are "dynamic monochromes" where color gives strength to the three-dimensional surface and where the analysis of profiles is one of the dominant themes. The image has disappeared, transformed into structure, and the volumes are soft they seem to emerge from the surface of the work and involve the surrounding space in a dynamic vortex. The profiles are soft but marked, they are the absence of matter and color, and it is precisely this subtraction that represents the representative and triggering key to Bassani's compositional dynamism and the genesis of his "sculpture paintings". His works involve the surrounding space, move beyond the surface and, enclosed in transparent installations, represent the overcoming of the formal and gender boundaries between painting and sculpture.
