About Me
Biography
Andrea Bianchini was born in Florence in 1960, where he still lives and works. This fascinating town nurtures the call of art inside him. Since his teenage, Andrea has realized oil paintings, selling some of them in the wine and food shop nearby. At the age of twelve he already worked with his father as a whitewasher and decorator, getting familiar with the decoration tools and techniques (terre, lime, pouncing). Studying at the National Institute of Arts in Florence and obtaining a diploma in painting was crucial for his artistic background. While attending the Institute of Arts he was introduced to rock music and from 1978 to 1990 he was the vocal and the text writer of a Florentine rock band. In 1980 he started working in a “craft shop”, where he realized panels of large dimensions using the tempera technique. During this period he mastered serigraphy and in 1986 opened his own decoration workshop. Besides painting he is passionate about decoration and photography and he often travels abroad (Great Britain, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Mexico etc.), getting inspiration and broadening his research.
In 1997 he realized some paintings giving prominence to the bright parts, which was the first time for him to use pure white (gondole, Nubiano) and in 1998 he held his first one-man show in the ex-Convent of Carmine in Florence, obtaining a prize at the “Prix Italia for Visual Arts” and organized the one-man show “Oceani” at the Crest Fort in Milan, presented by Giorgio Seveso. The same year, his work Nubiano was selected for the Anthology of winners of XVI Prix Firenze. In 1999 he painted the first marine wakes and some monochrome works, such as “ballerine”. In the same period he used pure colors and large canvas, trying to give a strong light intensity, leaving large blank spaces, experimenting with new techniques. White, the non-color for excellence, the color of absence, embodies this picturesqueness.
From 2001 to 2002, with the cycle “Oltre la luce” he exhibited in many art galleries of Italy. In 2002 he began to paint subjects repeated on dark backgrounds, called “Lucentisti”, such as “Folle” and “Migrazione Cosmica” and in 2003 he presented Lucèntis with his shows at the historical café Giubbe Rosse in Florence and at S. Terenzo Castle in Lerici. Roberta Fiorini writes: “from an aerial point of view, the artist plays with the rhythm of shapes that move “trapped” within the space of large round and square canvas”. In 2003, recognizing his abilities for decoration techniques, the superintendence of Florentine Museum Center entrusted him the realization of a set of panels decorated with pure gold for the apartments of Palatine Gallery of Pitti Palace.
In April 2004 he presented the first Lucentista installation during the one-man show “Figure in Luce” in the cloister of Villa Vogel in Florence. In 2005 Professor Carmelo Mezzasalma supervised “Lucentia” at the church of S. Leolino in Panzano in Chianti. In 2007 he exhibited “Nella Luce delle cose” at the Loggia del Grano (Uffizi Center). In 2008 he began the cycle “Il viaggio”, displaying all his most intimate creative energy and in 2010 he realized his first video for this cycle. During those years he experimented with his art language also on objects, often on odd things like the big buoy found on the rocks after a sea storm near Punta Ala. In 2016 he received the Fiorino gold at the Firenze prize.
From 2019 to 2021 he realizes the work “Life” , inspired by the beech forest.
Some of his works are parts of public and private collections.