From 22 November to 9 March 2025
The unpublished project Filira presents a new cycle of works by the Cagliari artist in a personal exhibition conceived as a single work, a total environment where canvases and sculptures are connected to each other in an organic yet unitary overview. Known for his research on the ash generated by the combustion of essences from his garden in Calasetta, as a plastic tool to create sculptures from fragile material, Biggio has recently experimented with a form of painting using the juice of filirea berries which, when squeezed, produce a dark ochre color with purple shades. Thus, like the cycle of his ash sculptures, the result of an authentic reflection on the cycle of life and elements, in the same way painting transcribes imprints of nature, in its metamorphosis and consumption. In the background, hovers the citation of a Greek myth. Filira, a nymph daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, was loved by Cronus whom she tried to escape by transforming into a mare. But Cronus, transforming into a stallion, reached her and united with her. Filira gave birth to a son, a hybrid creature, the centaur Chiron. Disturbed at the sight of her son, she asked Zeus to be transformed into a bush that would take her name, filirea. With the extract of the berries of this plant, Biggio traces on the canvas traces of an ephemeral vegetation.
Alessandro Biggio (Cagliari, 1975), lives and works between Cagliari and Calasetta. Graduated in economics, he is now dedicated to aesthetic research. In his artistic practice, the process of exploration and experimentation on the material plays a fundamental role. His sculptures, installations, and monotypes are always the result of layers of gestures and phases whose final result represents a possible moment of balance, between control and loss of control of the process, between disintegration and form. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in public and private spaces including: Gherdëina Contemporary Art Biennale, MAN Museum Nuoro, Marino Marini Museum Florence, Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries of Cagliari, Stadtpark Krems Gallery, Michela Rizzo Gallery Venice, CLER Milan, Bartoli-Felter Foundation Cagliari. In 2020, he is among the recipients of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Via Sebastiano Satta, 27, Nuoro, Italy
Opening hours
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monday | Closed now | |
tuesday | 10:00 - 19:00 | |
wednesday | 10:00 - 19:00 | |
thursday | 10:00 - 19:00 | |
friday | 10:00 - 19:00 | |
saturday | 10:00 - 19:00 | |
sunday | 10:00 - 19:00 |