Discipline

Abstract

Conceptual

Installation / Land / Site-specific

Material

Brick/Concrete/Plaster

Fiberglass/Plastic/Resin

Mixed media

Terracotta

Region

International

Biography

Italian-born Giorgio Bevignani currently lives and works in the countryside near Bologna, where he molds and forms diverse materials into distinctive conglomerations, round-like forms, that aggregate into larger constructions, relating the smaller elements to the larger form which are arranged and mounted together to create a larger, cohesive work. His creativity, which is considerable, emerges in the elegant combination of technical skill and conceptual knowledge. His profound study of history, contemporary science, mythology, philosophy, and mathematics greatly influences his work. Using special patinas, phosphorus tints, and colours, his idiosyncrasy of composition and form, both so playful and magical, combined and merged with a certain charm, create something new to the world.
Bevignani’s work has a real presence, his connection to nature and culture, his organic plasticity, his use of positive and negative spaces, filled with awareness of form, create a body of work that seems to float, that go beyond our understanding of gravity, time, space, light, and balance.
The larger spiritual role played by the sculptures in all their complexity give it a presence finally so human in both its goals and intentions.