Alessandro Busci Biography
Alessandro Busci, painter and architect, lives and works in Milan. Graduated from the Polytechnic of Milan with a thesis in Art History (prof. Flavio Caroli), Busci investigates the potential of the exchange between Western and Eastern iconographic traditions and his production stands out for the strong value of the pictorial and calligraphic sign, made on unconventional supports such as steel, copper and aluminum worked with acids and enamels or on the more traditional paper. He began exhibiting in 1996 at the 36th edition of the Suzzara Prize and his solo exhibitions were held in Milan, Rome, Brescia, Turin, London, Bordeaux, Madrid, Milan, Bilbao, San Francisco and Naples. Since 1997 he has collaborated with the Atelier Mendini, contributing to the creation of various architecture, decoration and exhibition projects, including the traveling Telefono Azzurro exhibition and the wall-art for the Swatch chain of stores. In 1999 he won first prize in the Venetian competition “La Fenice et des artistes” and at the Antonia Jannone Gallery (Milan) he exhibited his solo show “Acqua rossa. Brown light. Luce”, followed in 2002 by “Steel Life”. In 2003, the Poltrona Frau Space in London hosted a solo exhibition of his, while in 2004 he was invited to the XIV Quadrennial Art Exhibition (Turin Preview) and was among the finalists of the fifth edition of the Cairo Communication Award. For ten years of exhibition activity, in 2007, Italian Factory organized a solo exhibition in two locations (at the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid and at the Institute for the Blind in Milan) and its works were included in “The New Italian Art Scene ”, a collective project hosted by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan, and in the exhibition “Italian Art 1968-2007. Painting” created by Vittorio Sgarbi (Palazzo Reale, Milan). In 2008, “8” took place, a solo show at the Mark Wolfe Gallery in San Francisco (CA, USA), and “Cor-Ten”, an important project that includes fifty large-format works on iron that describe the spaces of the contemporary city, exhibited in Turin in conjunction with T2 Triennale d'Arte Contemporanea and subsequently at the First Gallery in Rome (2009). In 2010, on the occasion of the China Trade Award, Busci and Cathay Pacific presented the volume Airports at the Milan Triennale, and in the same year the artist participated in the Venice Biennale in the Italian and Cuban pavilions. In 2011 the solo show “Milano-Napoli” took place at the Galleria al Blu di Prussia in Naples and in 2012 Flavio Caroli curated the anthology “Omar Galliani | Alessandro Busci – A generation passage (permanent center of gravity)” at the MAGA Museum in Gallarate (VA). In 2014 the large solo show at the Milan Triennale, “In Alto Milano”, 90 works dedicated to the new development of the vertical city, curated by Ada Masoero.
