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EVENT DESCRIPTION
The exhibition is Alessandro Busci’s first solo exhibition in Asia, supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong. Busci generates delicate signs as a sapient calligrapher, outlining dark flashes, nocturnal lights, hypnotic monochrome landscapes with difficult promise. A dark vision of the urban drama in the world. His paintings are full of gestures that prophesy the oily, petroliferous worlds, of atmospheres where hope persists only through some rare concession of a few touches of yellow or orange.
Since 2002 Busci has been painting on iron or metal sheets, dipped in acid solution to activate the oxidation process. While the rust is forming and spreading, Busci works on the damp sheet using mainly acrylics and enamels and a Japanese calligraphy brush.
It is like working on a living material, which has to be dominated or at least tended with the loving care of a gardener or shepherd. It has to be stopped here…and blocked there…and left to roam here. Some – with good reason – liken this procedure to action-painting. Some liken it to Zen and alchemy.
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Alessandro Busci, painter and architect, lives and works in Milan, he trained at the atelier of Alessandro Mendini, where he worked for eleven years. His art investigates the potential of the exchange between the Western and Eastern iconographic traditions and his production is distinguished by the strong value of the sign, pictorial and calligraphic, made on unconventional supports such as steel, copper and aluminum processed with acids and enamels or on the more traditional paper.Among his most important exhibitions: his participation in the Venice Biennale in 2010, his solo show at the Triennale di Milano in 2014, his exhibition at the Soglia Magica in Malpensa in 2017 and the exhibitions in Milan, Rome, Naples, Turin, San Francisco, Bilbao, London, Madrid, Lugano. He joined the San Patrignano collection in 2018.
