- Mattia biagi
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Mattia Biagi (born 1974) is an Italian professional artist, whose work has been a substantial part of significant solo and group exhibitions worldwide. The various tools and mixed media that he uses includes acrylics, tar, wood, fabric, and other items found in nature, to create avant garde sculptures and designs. He is represented in the permanent collections of Officine dell'Immagine in Milan[1] and Anna Kustera Gallery in New York.[2] In 2011, his collective body of work was the subject of an independent book, entitled Mattia Biagi – Black Tar. While Biagi is from Ravenna, Italy, he is professionally based in Los Angeles.
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Professional background
Biagi attended art and design schools from Milan, including Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and I.R.F.A. His knowledge and passion includes photography, art, fashion, design and architecture. Biagi's multicultural influences and humanitarian issues arising from seeing war torn lands and ecological devastation and materialism, along with the artist's study of his own personal journey are often reflected through his work.
Biagi's work is shown internationally at galleries and museums such as The Mint Museum of Craft + Design in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Biagi has lived in Los Angeles since 2001. The city inspired him to produce a new body of works using tar as an expressive artistic medium. His idea for black tar came forth while he was visiting the La Brea Tar Pits (a natural geological site featuring pools of tar that contain fossils).
Galleries and exhibits
Solo exhibitions
2004: Cappellini Art Design, Los Angeles, California Flou, Los Angeles, California Dzine Art Design, San Francisco, California La Conceria Art Gallery, Milan, Italy Marconi Art Gallery, Bologna, Italy 2005: Twentieth Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California Dao Art Design, Los Angeles, California 2007: Deborah Page Gallery, Santa Monica, California 2008: We All Are Guilty, We All Are Victims, And I Am The First One, Los Angeles, California Rose Like A Phoenix From The Ashes, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York City 2009: Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These, Holster Projects Gallery, London, England Panni Stesi, a cura di Amanda Shulman, Los Angeles, California 2010: Recognize Your Spiritual Need, Rediscover Your Faith In Your Religion, Holster Projects Gallery, London, England 2011: Solo Show, Officine dell’Immagine – SCOPE Basel 2011, Switzerland Storm Of Life, The Farmers and Merchants Bank Building, Los Angeles, California Freedom, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California Black Tar, Officine dell'Immagine, Milan, Italy Group exhibitions
2003: Maffi Gallery, Rome, Italy 2005: Rose Gallery, Venice Beach, California Don O Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, California Art Walk LACMA Museum, Los Angeles, California Art Gallery of Luca, Florence, Italy 2006: Red Dot, New York City Patricia Faure Gallery, Bergamot:Station, Santa Monica, California Ghettogloss, Silver Lake, California Art Basel, Miami, Florida 2007: Art Basel, Miami, Florida The Black Market Show, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York City High And Dry, Smoke And Fog, Phantom Galleries, Los Angeles, California Object Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania Stephen F. Austin State University, Austin, Texas Harper College, Palatine, Illinois 2008: Freiheit Gallery Famiglia Margini, Milan, Italy 2009: Sweet Dreams Are Made of These, Holster Projects, London 2010: SCOPE Basel, Basel, Switzerland Fountain Show, New York Print media
2005: LA Confidential Surface Magazine, Issue No. 54 2006: Le vie dell’auto (Italy) Los Angeles Times, Home Section, March 30 Pop Life Magazine, Issue No. 1 Angeleno Magazine Interior Design, Issue No. 14, November 1 Interior Design, Issue No. 6, May 31 Flaunt Magazine, Issue No. 71 ArtTravel, Issue No. 11 2007: Maison et Objet Paris, Inspirations Book (Cahier d’Inspirations), No. 10: Celebration Zink Magazine, February Issue Stílus Magazin (Hungary), March Issue AMPM Magazine (Taiwan) 944 Magazine, May Issue Binyan Vediur Magazine (Israel) Further reading
- Taglialagamba, Sara; and Galluzzi, Francesco. Mattia Biagi - Black Tar, Milan: Skira, 2011. ISBN 978-8857209791
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