NICOLA BIONDANI
Mantova, 1976
Nicola Biondani’s sculptures own two distinct souls. A classical one, permeated with history, born from Medardo Rosso and Marino Marini and a modern one, filled with allusions to the complex patterns of contemporary living, the incommunicability and daily grind, the winding mistrust towards the future. Two souls which mirror through the interplay between the inner monumentality given also to the smallest works and the human tremble of their glances; between their totemic posture –as if they were contemporary idols – and their being captured while doing simple and daily activities. They are travelers who got lost around the world. Sometimes they sit exhausted on their suitcases, on other times they seem to have escaped from an unbearable condition, otherwise they wear a winter coat as an armour against the world.
He was born in Mantova in 1976. After the graduation at the Istituto d’Arte in Guidizzolo (Mantova), in 2004 he got a degree with highest honours at the Accademia C.B. Cignaroli in Verona. In the same year, he inaugurated his atelier in Mantova and started working as a sculptor for the scenic design of the Verona’s theatre foundation. He participated in many exhibitions and contests in Italy. He lives and works in Milan.
