Adriano Foschi Foschi Biography
Adriano Foschi was born in Milan in 1942 where he studied at the Higher School of Painting of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. In 1964 he published the manifesto “Etopatofisica” as a denunciation of urban alienation.
In 1970 he founded the internationally distributed art magazine “Humandesign”. In '75 he left the city and went to live in Adro, in Franciacorta, where he founded an art therapy "Commune", the first experiment in the world of total art. In 1980 he published the “Transarte” manifesto as a denunciation of contamination. In 1989 he chose to live in Garda, permeated by a new spirit with the intention of stopping reporting. In '93 at the Sanmicheliana Losa in Garda, he gave life to the elusive character "De Melo", with the aim of giving prevalence to "Writing" as an advanced expressive means, as a translation of the Logos.
He shows off his graphic experience to demolish the myth of the unique work, recognizing the fundamental importance of technical reproducibility in the development of communication and consciousness. In his long and luminous career, Adriano Foschi has always been able to grasp the unity in the multiple. From his very first works, his avant-garde art has transcended the fixity of the icon and convention, has gracefully crossed the fields of the figurative and the abstract, has debunked the myth of the unique work by enhancing technical reproducibility as a means of diffusion cultural. Both in the most daring experiments and in the most canonical compositions, his art is imbued with homages to masters of all time, such as Botticelli, Caravaggio, Tintoretto. Moreover, his path has its roots in a centuries-old family pictorial tradition, culminating in his son Davide, also a visionary and innovative artist. Despite this, Adriano Foschi retains his singular specificity in the contemporary panorama. His is a polyglot art, which does not crystallize in a single expression but knows how to range over the vast horizon of possibilities, coming to merge apparently antithetical languages, as in the case of his "poetic foods".
An essentiality which in the works of Adriano Foschi always reveals a impetus towards a Beyond, an unfathomable dimension where the veil of illusion falls together with its material trappings, and the Real in its purest and most uncontaminated essence is finally revealed to our eyes.
