Piero Fogliati was born in 1930 in Canelli, a small town near Asti, and lived and worked mostly in Turin.
He began his career in the visual arts as a self-taught artist in the 1950s, experimenting with both figurative and abstract-informal painting. His search for a personal style and his belief in the autonomy of the artistic idiom soon merged with his strong interest in science and technology. In an exploration of sensory perception and natural phenomena, Fogliati creates machines reflecting the sublime, refined aesthetic of his visual and sound imagery.
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From the exhibition catalogue Piero Fogliati: l’immagine nella rêverie – Alessandro Pancotti 2014
Piero Fogliati’s career eludes all categorisation, all labels. It began in the 1960s and developed through to the new millennium. I agree with the idea that his work should be regarded as the work of a pioneer, in just the same way as the early experiments of Meliès,...
Piero Fogliati’s Soft Machines – Fortunato D’Amico 2013
Aged over 80, artist Piero Fogliati works incessantly, carrying forward his research into light, which began when as a boy he decided to achieve his great dream: to colour rain. In his pieces, Piero Fogliati repairs the fracture between art, science, philosophy and...
from the Dizionario del Fare Arte Contemporaneo Universale Sansoni – Lara Vinca Masini 1992
Fogliati Piero (Canelli, Turin) Italian artist. Since the 1960s, he has explored the physical and expressive limits of perception. In experimenting with sound, movement, optics and light, his objective always is to reach what can be poetically expressed in the...