Flavia Bigi was born in Siena (1965)
She lives and works in Rome and Paris.
Flavia Bigi draws ideas that she further develops into explorative projects, heading to many different directions. She expresses her thoughts through many polymorphic languages, but strictly connected to each other. Drawing becomes engraving on glass or marble, painting interlaces with photography and video, sculpture turns to installation.
Flavia Bigi’s interest mainly focuses on deciphering conditions and conflicts between intimate sphere and transitory -cultural, economic or social- environment: she observes interpersonal tensions and scans their effects. In her works, essential shapes such as square and circle, or arch and line, interact and develop a dialogue of proportions and metaphors.
She has been showing her work in galleries and museums among which in 2017 with the show Transitions of Energy at the Museum of the city of Kokkola,in Finland and in 2016 at the museums of the city of Kotka and Kajaani, Finland, in 2014 at the Museum Hundertwasser in Vienna Austria, at the Kunsthalle of Bratislavain Slovakia,at the French Institute of Bratislava and with the exhibtion Women on paper at the French Institute of Prague. In 2013 she had her solo show Let it go presented at the Vanessa Guang Gallery in Paris and at the Contemporary Museum in Zilina, Slovakia. Her works have been exhibited in international art fairs in Bolzano, Basel, Paris, Venice Athens, New York, Miami.
Her works have been presented at International Art Fairs in Paris, Bolzano, Basel, Prague, Venice, Rome and New York.
She studied Painting and composition in Mulhouse, Ankara, New York, Paris and Rome.
In 2003 she has been selected for a painting workshop held by James Rosenquist at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
In 2005 she obtained a Master of Art at New York University.
Events at Rome Art Week
2018
2017
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