Gianluca Bianchino
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Gianluca Bianchino (born May 13, 1977) is an Italian-American artist born in Avellino, Italy. A multi-media artist working in the realm of abstraction, his work is informed by science, philosophy and architecture. His installations are a mix of repurposed materials, projected imagery, cast light, shadows and drawing which create three-dimensional illusions that play with the physical space of the gallery.[1] His installations reside in spaces in which he considers the walls to be large, flat canvases upon which he adds textures in the form of tripods, lenses, telescopes, umbrellas, solar panels and lighting equipment.[2] The assemblages suggest scientific research and exploration[3] - especially the detritus left behind, decaying and floating miles above the earth.[1] Playing with lights and cast shadows, he creates tangible futuristic spaces[4] He lives and works in Newark, New Jersey.[5][6]
Education
Gianluca Bianchino attended an architectural magnet school in his home in Avellino before relocating to the United States.[7] He later enrolled at New Jersey City University in Hudson County where he earned his bachelors of fine arts with a concentration in painting. He studied under Hugo Bastidas who influenced by conceptual process as a painter and artist. During his time studying in Jersey City, his mentor Ben F. Jones, was instrumental in his artistic development, challenging him to engage in experimental art-making approaches with a political bent. He later attended Montclair State University where he earned an MFA in 2011. He studied painting under Julie Heffernan before making the transition from painting to focus on sculpture and installation.[8] In transitioning from painting to multi-media work, Bianchino was a video production assistant for Robert Whitman's "Passport" conceived for the 500 seat Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University.
Career
It was during his MFA at Montclair that he began focusing his attention from pure painting in oil on canvas to turn his attention to his current multi-media sculptural practice which integrates notions related to shifting space, ordered chaos and notions of string theory which he attempts to explain visually. Writer Shannon Hall likened to "an unchoreographed ballet" and notions of child-like wonder that permeates his work.[2]
Bianchino has numerous artist-in-residence appointments including Ramapo College of New Jersey, The Center for New Art at William Paterson University, Gilbertsville Expressive Movement (Gilbertsville, New York) and Gallery Aferro (Newark, New Jersey). In 2016, Bianchino was selected as a resident artist at the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation based at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey.[9] He was honored as a visiting artist at the Suzhou Culture and Art Centre in Suzhou, China in 2017 and invited to the R.A.I.D. Residency in Bologna, Italy later that same year.[10]
Collections
- Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
- Gilbertsville Expressive Movement, Gilbertsville, NY
- Eileen Kaminski Foundation (ESKFF)
References
- ^ Fuse, Arte (2019-02-19). "Art Exhibits, Art Magazine, Contemporary Art, Art Blogs, Art Artists". Arte Fuse. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
- ^ Goodman, Jonathan (2013-04-01). "Gianluca Bianchino". Sculpture. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
- ^ Lipson, Karin (2015-10-22). "Islip Exhibition Explores How Science Influences Art". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
- ^ "BIANCHINO". SCULPTORS GUILD. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
- ^ Goodman, Jonathan (2019-02-19). "Art Exhibits, Art Magazine, Contemporary Art, Art Blogs, Art Artists". Arte Fuse. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Goodman, Jonathan (2016-03-01). "Gianluca Bianchino: Dispersing Form and Energy". Sculpture. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
- ^ "Gianluca Bianchino". SciArt Initiative. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
- ^ "2016 Winter Residents". eskff. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
- ^ Bianchino, Gianluca. "Gianluca Bianchino |". www.artmobia.com. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
- ^ Galleries, New Jersey City University. "Uncharted Space: Gianluca Bianchino - 2019-01-30 January 2019". Evensi. Retrieved 2021-03-27.