Alessandro Busci

Alessandro Busci, painter and architect, lives and works in Milan.
He explores the exchange between the western and eastern iconographic traditions through his work characterized by a highly distinctive pictorial and calligraphic style both on unconventional supports (steel, copper and aluminium worked with acid and enamels) and traditional paper.
Busci has been exhibited in Milan, Rome, Brescia, Turin, London, Bordeaux, Madrid, Milan, Bilbao, San Francisco and Naples.
In 2003 he had a solo show at the Poltrona Frau showroom in London.
In 2007, to mark his tenth carrier anniversary, Italian Factory organized a solo show of his work in two venues, the Italian Institute of Culture to Madrid and the Institute for the Blind in Milan. His works were included in the group exhibitions ‘The New Italian Art Scene’ (Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum) and ‘Italian Art 1968-2007. Painting’ (Palazzo Reale, Milan, original idea by Vittorio Sgarbi).
2008 saw the solo show ‘8’ at the Mark Wolfe Gallery in San Francisco (CA, USA) and ‘Cor-Ten’, a major series of fifty large works on iron examining the spaces of the contemporary city, exhibited first in Turin to coincide with the T2 Triennial of Contemporary Art and then at the First Gallery in Rome (2009).
In 2010, within the framework of the China Trade Award, Busci and Cathay Pacific presented the volume Airports at the Milan Triennial. His work was also shown in the Italian and Cuban pavilions at the Venice Biennial the same year. The solo show ‘Milan-Naples’ was held in Naples at the Galleria al Blu di Prussia in 2011 and the joint show ‘Omar Galliani | Alessandro Busci – a change of generation (centre of permanent gravity)’, curated by Flavio Caroli, in Gallarate at the Museo MAGA in 2012.
In 2014 the great solo exhibition at the Milan Triennale , ” In alto Milano ” , 90 works dedicated to the growth of new vertical city, curated by Ada Mason.

Submitted by Barbara Paci Art Gallery