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Piero Fogliati (1930 - 2016), originally from Canelli (1930) in the province of Asti, Fogliati lived and worked mainly in Turin. His works are present at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, at the Museion in Bolzano, at the Galleria Comunale in Cagliari, at the MACRO in Rome, at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, at the Museo Technorama der Schweiz in Winterthur, at the Musée de l' énergie électrique of Mulhouse, at the AT&T Foundation, at the “Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie” in Paris (which dedicated the personal exhibition “Sculpter the invisible” to him in 1992), as well as in numerous important private collections, including including the Giuliano Gori Foundation in Santomato, the Panza di Biumo Collection in Lugano and the VAF-Stiftung in Frankfurt am Main, whose works are on loan at the MART in Rovereto. Read the full biography

Piero Fogliati (1930 - 2016), originally from Canelli (1930) in the province of Asti, Fogliati lived and worked mainly in Turin. His works are present at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, at the Museion in Bolzano, at the Galleria Comunale in Cagliari, at the MACRO in Rome, at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, at the Museo Technorama der Schweiz in Winterthur, at the Musée de l' énergie électrique of Mulhouse, at the AT&T Foundation, at the “Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie” in Paris (which dedicated the personal exhibition “Sculpter the invisible” to him in 1992), as well as in numerous important private collections, including including the Giuliano Gori Foundation in Santomato, the Panza di Biumo Collection in Lugano and the VAF-Stiftung in Frankfurt am Main, whose works are on loan at the MART in Rovereto. Starting from the 1950s he dedicated himself to the visual arts, experimenting as a self-taught painter with both figurative and abstract-informal expression. The search for a personal style and trust in the autonomy of artistic language soon combined with a strong passion for science and technology. Exploring sensorial perception and natural phenomena, Fogliati builds machines with a sublime and refined aesthetic connected to the visual-acoustic sphere. Fogliati combines beauty and perception, demonstrating his trust in the imagination but also his sincere and joyful affection towards man. The artist's works are in fact linked to the creation of the Fantastic City, a vast project of urban interventions in which sounds, lights, atmospheric elements and hydrogeological ecosystems are transformed into aesthetic and sensorial experiences. In this period we note the first personal exhibitions in Florence, Rome and Turin, up to the participation in the two Venice Biennials of 1978 and 1986, at the Japanese ARTEC Biennial of Nagoya in 1997, at the exhibition “FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER! Signet works of the collections” of 2006 dedicated to contemporary art of the last fifty years at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. The Turin consecration came in 2003 with an important anthology entitled "Piero Fogliati the poet of light".