Artist in Residence: Guido Bisagni / 108 (it)

Bisagni is a historic exponent of the Italian urban art scene and is considered one of the first and greatest exponents of abstract post-graffiti art on a national and European level.

Bisagni will during the week before the opening use the gallery as his studio, where it's possible for the public to visit and see the artist at work.

Prosjekt 67 are also collaborating with Den Frie Presse at Bodøgaard where Bisagni will produce a woodcut print for the exhibition.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

In 1999 Bisagni abandoned traditional graffiti lettering to devote himself to more distinctive and characterizing expressive formulas, as also underscored by the transition to the pseudonym 108, a de-personalizing name derived from a combination of interests in Eastern philosophies and geometry. Signs, symbols, abstract materializations with organic features make up his new poetic and spiritual imagery, in the conception of which contaminations of different sources take over, from the abstractionism of the historical avant-gardes to the Dadaist causality of H. Arp, from numerology to primitive painting. The shamanic component of Eastern religions and Kandinsky’s color theory are fundamental contributions to build a discourse around these soft, ethereal and heavy forms at the same time, not so much in the direction of their aesthetic bearing, though very present, but in their universal intimacy.

Following the discovery of L. Russolo’s sound compositions, 108 also broadened his experimentation to the field of music under the pseudonym Larva 108. With the help of old computers and acoustic instruments, he transposes the restlessness of wall works into the production of disturbing noises and sound compositions.