Cecilia Biagini
Cecilia Biagini creates rhythmic, multicolored paintings, sculptures, photograms, and mobiles. These dynamic constructions depict bright geometric abstractions and express Biagini’s interests in language, semiotics, music, and science. Indeed, Biagini has centered her artistic practice on the translation of elements drawn from quantum physics into architecture and physical works of art—in accordance with an idiosyncratic sign-system, powerful lines and bright colors appear throughout her oeuvre and are suggestive of air, water, and energy currents.
Biagini’s painting process involves taping off her canvases so as to create complex geometrical designs. On top of this, Biagini later applies multiple layers of paint. The resulting geometry of Biagini’s paintings is echoed in her sculptures: these assemblage-like works feature compilations of various shapes that are both handmade items and found objects. In order to realize such works, Biagini often begins with angular shapes, which conform to grid-like configurations; she then shifts and twists these shapes in order to draw attention to the innate equilibrium and tension of the work. As a whole, Biagini's body of work encourages viewers to consider the complex geometries and systems that make up our surroundings.
Biagini's work has been exhibited globally at notable museums including MoMA PS 1, The Hunterdon …
Cecilia Biagini creates rhythmic, multicolored paintings, sculptures, photograms, and mobiles. These dynamic constructions depict bright geometric abstractions and express Biagini’s interests in language, semiotics, music, and science. Indeed, Biagini has centered her artistic practice on the translation of elements drawn from quantum physics into architecture and physical works of art—in accordance with an idiosyncratic sign-system, powerful lines and bright colors appear throughout her oeuvre and are suggestive of air, water, and energy currents.
Biagini’s painting process involves taping off her canvases so as to create complex geometrical designs. On top of this, Biagini later applies multiple layers of paint. The resulting geometry of Biagini’s paintings is echoed in her sculptures: these assemblage-like works feature compilations of various shapes that are both handmade items and found objects. In order to realize such works, Biagini often begins with angular shapes, which conform to grid-like configurations; she then shifts and twists these shapes in order to draw attention to the innate equilibrium and tension of the work. As a whole, Biagini's body of work encourages viewers to consider the complex geometries and systems that make up our surroundings.
Biagini's work has been exhibited globally at notable museums including MoMA PS 1, The Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, New Jersey, The Bemis Center in Omaha, The Cervantes Institute in Rome, and in Buenos Aires, the Recoleta Cultural Center, The Museum of Fine Arts, the PROA Foundation, and the Museum of Modern Art. Biagini received a Photography Critics Award from the Buenos Aires’s Centro de Arte y Comunicación in 1989 and has been granted two invitations through the Young Artists Scholarship to the Guillermo Kuitca workshop at Los talleres de la Boca and the Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires.