Enzo Bersezio Biography
Enzo Bersezio (1943 - ) was born in Lesegno, Cuneo in 1943. After his high school studies in Cuneo, he graduated in sculpture by attending the course held by master Sandro Cherchi at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, a city which from that moment became place of art, life and work. This is an artist who, while maintaining his roots in the post-conceptual scene of the early 70s, since the end of the following decade and still today, has conducted his research in a completely natural way along the paths by the younger generations, frequently exhibiting with them and holding solo exhibitions in galleries dedicated to that type of investigation, such as, among others, Guido Carbone and VSV in Turin, Neon in Bologna. At the dawn of the '70s Bersezio was engaged in a work in which the inevitable conceptual commitment extended to the anthropological dimension and research on signs and writing, in a Turin scene where personalities such as Griffa, Gastini and De Alexandris were active. In the 1980s the artist's style moved decisively towards sculpture, initially still partially narrative and ancestral, in terms of symbols and references, then veering to the present day, with few significant formal variations, in the direction of a neo-minimalism full of craftsmanship and almost devotional use of materials. The observation of the forms of nature directs him to the verification of multiple materials but this path leads him to finally favor wood, whose ability to be a structure suggests an archetypal image and at the same time is a living body of poetry. His work makes him participate in numerous events in Italy and abroad and to be present at the 54th Venice Biennale, in the Italian Pavilion.
