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108

(Italy, 1978)

108 (Guido Bisagni) was born in Alessandria in 1978.
He is considered one of the most important exponent of Post-graffitism and neo minimal abstractism in Italy. He started his artistic research with an approach to traditional graffiti. At the end of the ’90, after having based in Milan in 1997 and his graduation in Industrial Design, his style evolve in forms and themes: he begins one of the first to use numbers and not letters as a name. His abstract and mysterious figures appear in abandoned places in the streets of Milan, Berlin, London, New York and Paris. He deals also with sculptures, sounds, paintings and installations in a lot of personal and group shows around the world. The main are the attendance to the 2007 Biennale di Venezia with his project Walls inside, in 2014 the Biennal of Urban Art in Moscow Artmossphere, in 2015 the big group show Mapping the City curated by Rafael Schacter at Somerset House of London, Milano – La famosa invasione degli artisti a Milano, at Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, in 2017 Abstractism, Galleria Varsi, Rome, Dialogues, Galerie Celal M13, Paris, (Fra). And many other Italian and international personal exhibition: in 2012 Seventeen Dens – Ego Gallery, Lugano (Ch), in 2013 Crossroad #1- (double with Elzo Durt) – Doppelgaenger gallery, Bari, The thin mountain – The soft mountain – 999Contemporary, Rome, La manipulation de la form– Bienurbain, Besancon (Fra), in 2014 Passaggi Concreti– Studio d’Ars, Milano, Genius Loci – Sale d’Arte della Città di Alessandria, Alessandria, LAVA – Van Der, Torino, Solstizio d’Inverno – Studio Cromie, Grottaglie, in 2015 Antipodas – Dinamica Galeria, Buenos Aires (Arg), Svartans Orolighet – Nevven, Goteborg (Swe), 1010 + 108 = 1118 (double solo show) – Soon Switzerland (Ch), The Rite of Spring– Little Circus, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milano, La forma dell’Ignoto – Ego Gallery, Lugano (Ch), in 2016 Di carne, di nulla (double show with Silvia Argiolas), Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milano, in 2017 Post-Tradition (Double show with Giulio Zanet), Villa Casati Stampa di Muggiò, Muggiò, (MB), ABSTRACTR̶E̶A̶L̶I̶S̶M̶, Affenfaust Galerie, Amburgo, (Germany)