Luigi Biffi Biography
Biffi Luigi. Milan, 1928-1994. Painter and graphic designer. Coming from a family with multiple and lively artistic interests, he lost his father, a musician and painter, at an early age. Initially dedicated to illustration and comics, he moved on to painting at the end of the 1960s and began to exhibit regularly starting from 1971. From that moment onwards numerous solo exhibitions followed: in Milan (Galleria dell'Orso, 1972; Galleria Ciovasso, 1973 ), in Lucca, Rome, Turin, Cremona, Grosseto and other Italian cities. In 1974 he won the National Resistance Competition ex aequo. In 1982, in Milan, he set up an exhibition dedicated to the poet Delio Tessa and in 1985, at Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, he presented a cycle of works on the history of Manzoni's Colonna Infame. He also takes part in important exhibitions, including the 1990 Triennial of Engraving. He creates various graphic folders and works to accompany important volumes. His presence is constant in exhibitions with a figurative tendency and characterized by intentions of civil commitment, with works in which the representation of the human condition is evidently at the center of his interests, rendered with a poor color but capable, however, of giving great emphasis on the shapes. His production deals in particular with the theme of the Lombard cultural tradition and its most important exponents, starting from historical-literary texts artistically interpreted as a mirror of contemporary reality and life.
