Carlo Guzzi Biography
Carlo Guzzi was born in Cernusco sul Naviglio in 1970. He is an artist who works mainly with wood, iron and clay, but also with his soul. His materials are concrete and poor, inspired by minimalism, the Arte Povera movement and symbolism. The artist has exhibited since 1994 mainly in Lombardy and is known for his investigation into the concept of emptiness/fullness, especially linked to the human figure. Guzzi is above all interested in three-dimensionality and the investigation of a space that goes beyond that considered in the forms of his supports. His sculptures interact with the viewer, inviting him to engage with essential but infinite human figures. Guzzi is strongly linked to the poetics of Fausto Melotti, with whom he studied at the Brera Academy, especially with regards to the analysis of the relationship between space and void in sculpture. Furthermore, his canvases are also sculptures and refer to Fontana's Concetto Spaziale, which, developed at the beginning of the 1960s, invited us not to stop at the two-dimensionality of the canvas, but to understand what was beyond the support itself. Here too, Guzzi invites us to look beyond the human figure and analyze the work more broadly, as happens with his larger sculptures.
