Giuseppe Friscia Biography
In 1980 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and among his first stops was Todi, where he met Piero Dorazio who immediately believed in his talent. Then came the stays in Europe between Zurich, Dresden, Dessau, Prague. And then New York, Philadelphia and Washington. Upon his return to Italy in 1992, the entrepreneur Patrizio Bertelli - who has always been close to his fellow citizen from Arezzo - offered him a scholarship to return to the United States, where he would remain for five years of study and work. He settled in New York and frequented Mark di Suvero's studio in Queens, where he met artists and intellectuals who supported him, such as friends Roberto Baciocchi, Miuccia Prada, Patrizio Bertelli and Mark Reutter. He shares his New York days with Angelo Savelli, often at the "Paris Café" in Seaport, spending hours talking about art, literature and poetry. All the work carried out in these five years is acquired and archived by the Prada Foundation in Milan. Having returned to Arezzo with different eyes and colours, Friscia settled permanently in his city and continued his production, starting the collaboration with the Bertolotti company for the color design of industrial machines in the steel, aeronautical and railway fields. Here he fell in love with technology and plant engineering, until arriving at sculpture. He continues to move and research, because Giuseppe Friscia has never stopped searching. His tension has always been towards a formal balance of compositions in which time and space exceed any pre-established limit, an almost obsessive search for contrast, even though his works convey a great sense of minimal uniformity and rigor. On the other hand, his arrival at straight lines is the fruit of an experience of paths that led him to the purification of style and form.
