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Davide Boriani was born in Milan in 1936.
He interrupted classical high school to work as an apprentice set designer at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and to attend art high school. He enrolled in the Achille Funi Decoration course at the Brera Academy, where he graduated in 1960 with a thesis on Dada. Read the full biography

Davide Boriani was born in Milan in 1936.
He interrupted classical high school to work as an apprentice set designer at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and to attend art high school. He enrolled in the Achille Funi Decoration course at the Brera Academy, where he graduated in 1960 with a thesis on Dada. With his high school classmates, Gabriele Devecchi, Grazia Varisco and Gianni Colombo he began to experiment with new artistic practices which would then converge in the birth of the famous Gruppo T, an artistic situation close to the experiments conducted by the Paduan artists (united in the N group), where "T ” stands for time and is at the origin of the new Programmed Art.
During the 1950s he adopted both traditional and experimental techniques in his research. Boriani begins the creation of vertical "Magnetic Surfaces", where the arrangement of the iron powder, retained at different levels by curved separators, is varied by magnetic fields moved by a micromotor, with paths programmed with a hypocycloid pattern. This cycle of works, based on the irreversible variation in material aggregates, on which the artist worked for the first time in the 1960s, is still a central theme in his research today.