Carlo Bernardini

Place: Viterbo

Born: 1966

Biography:

Carlo Bernardini was born in Viterbo in 1966. He lives and works in Milan. Bernardini started out his career in the early 90s with an abstract painting that concentrated on the dialectical relationship between line and monochrome, diversified moments of representative conception of space-light; then, since 1996 he has been planning and working on big optical fibre installations, stainless steel and optical fibre sculptures-installations, OLF (Optical lighting film) surfaces and electro-luminescent surfaces that the viewers perceive in a different way and in a different form, depending on where their position in the space is. He is a three time winner of the Overseas Grantee award of the Pollock Krasner Foundation in New York receiving grants in 2000, 2005 and in 2010, and in 2002 wins the Targetti Art Light Collection White Sculpture award. He begins in the early '90s, and in 1996 he was invited to the Exhibition Palace in Rome for the XII Quadrennial. In 2002 he was invited to the Milan Triennale and to the Sculpture Space, Utica (NY), and in the following year to the XIV Quadrennial the Royal Palace in Naples. Among his most important international exhibitions it is worth mentioning the great exhibition in 2004 at Museo Paço Imperial in Rio De Janeiro and in 2007 the presentation of the installation Event Horizon at the Swing Space in New York. In 2008 he presents at the Bruna Soletti Gallery La Quarta Direzione dello Spazio, a visual experimental hypothesis where inside of the optical fibre installation, interactive videos of abstract light in movement are activated in the passageway of the viewers aiming...