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VINCENZO DI BIASE    - Italy -

CONTACTS: v.dibiase.art@gmail.com

Lives and works in Rome Studio at Via Michele Amari, 47 - 00179 Rome

Radiant explosion

Contrasting chromaticism

Oil, enamel and acrylic on canvas cm 70x 100

Oil, enamel and acrylic on canvas cm 50x70

Musical sensation

Emerging from the depths

Oil, enamel and acrylic on canvas cm 70 x 100

Oil, enamel and acrylic on canvas cm 70 x 100

Color algebra

Transparency

Oil, enamel and acrylic on canvas cm 60 x 120

Oil, enamel and acrylic on canvas cm 60 x 120

HIS BIOGRAPHY

Vincenzo Di Biase was born in Termoli (CB) on 10-11-40. With his family he spent his childhood and youth in this Molise land. As a child he soon showed a natural talent and ease of expression for drawing and a certain

sensitivity for colour.
As a young graduate he moved to the capital, attended university and earned a degree in Mathematics at the University of Rome La Sapienza, as well as the qualification to teach Mathematics and Physics in upper secondary schools, winning the related competition.
From 1970 to 1975 he worked with the Chair of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome with professors Bruno De Finetti and Bruno Rizzi.
He is the author of papers and articles of a scientific and educational nature.
He taught for almost forty years as a tenured professor of Mathematics and Physics at the Collegio Nazareno scientific high school in Rome.
He began his artistic path almost for fun.
Over the years this activity, born as secondary, became a necessary tool to express his imagination.
For three decades now Vincenzo Di Biase has been painting, externalising through colour inner moods poured into those particular marks, which the artist himself does not intend to rationalise.
Opposed to Croce’s aesthetic view, in which the equation between intuition and expression reigns, according to a rigid mechanism whereby given impressions correspond to given impressions, the artist instead agrees with the
following statement by Pirandello: “not an art as the objectification of an impression of reality, but an art that gives a subjective interpretation of the real”.
Art, therefore, is not simple knowledge. Art and Science are not opposing realities. The activities of the spirit cannot be split. While in science an unconscious imagination and a reflective logic operate, in art there is an
instinctive logic and a conscious imagination.
Because the truth of art, the truth of imagination, is not common truth.
Today   certainly   painting   for Vincenzo   Di   Biase   is   no   longer   just a pastime. Vincenzo Di Biase’s canvases have been described as coming to life and bursting with emotion in the soul of those who stop to look at them. They arouse wonder and leave viewers almost speechless, who end up losing themselves in that storm of warm, cheerful, playful colours that almost seem to dance together in the void, drift apart, and then reunite in a thousand shades. Di Biase’s love for art is one that drags him along, captivates him and draws him away, taking him into the world of inner search so he can express himself and create spaces, images made of light and shadow, which are not only signs, but messages. Colour comes alive on the canvas.

CURRICULUM

THE CRITIQUE

The right color in the right place

"Every work of art is a child of its time and, often, the mother of our feelings. Likewise, every cultural period expresses its own art that will never be repeated again." Wassily Kandinsky.
Like Kandinsky, Vincenzo Di Biase embraces the same conscious refusal to represent a visible reality of objects.
In Vincenzo Di Biase’s works the viewer is not placed at the center of the painting but finds themselves within the image itself: it is colors and lines that, dancing, step out of the canvas to embrace and involve the viewer like "the music of an orchestra slowly, unhurriedly, fills the space of the stalls".
It seems that the living soul of Vincenzo Di Biase’s colors gives off a musical call, when the inflexible will of the brush tears from them a part of life.
The only difference is that music ends when one stops playing; painting does not. It endures in unchanging time, with its deafening silence, and silence is in the screams of the colors, in the lines and in the forms of these paintings.
And this music of his, closely linked to mathematics—indeed, a derivation of mathematics—emerges from his colors, in his brushstrokes, quick, nimble and fleeting, almost like a numerical synthesis. Geometric symbolism plays a decidedly fundamental role in the construction and realization of a non-figurative language.
"A large acute triangle divided into unequal sections, narrowing toward the top, represents schematically, yet precisely, spiritual life..." so wrote Wassily Kandinsky. How does the painter Di Biase know where to place his brush? Inspiration, experience, trial and error. Here lies the art of mathematics: in creating these small, marvelous poems of thought, these sonnets of pure reason. It is an art form with a wonderful capacity for transformation. There is nothing more poetic and visionary, nothing more radical, subversive and psychedelic than mathematics. Mathematics is the purest of the arts—and the most misunderstood.
In some way Vincenzo Di Biase has been able to create something beautiful and profound out of nothing—isn’t that what art is?
Vincenzo Di Biase’s works are the transcription, in numerical key, of his unconscious translated through color; it is color that reveals to us the correspondence with his soul.
He uses colors to express his words, since they are endowed with greater sensitivity and lead to subtler emotions. With colors he wins us over, captures us, possesses us.
And for Klee, painting well meant this: putting the right color in the right place. The most reflective and pure minds are those that love color above all else.
Through color we see, feel, perceive, touch and taste with all the senses of Vincenzo Di Biase.

Elisa Susanna

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