Gastone Biggi. Catalogo ragionato dei dipinti.

Gastone Biggi (Rome 1925 - Casa Rossa di Tordenaso, Langhirano 2014) is a unique figure in the history of painting from post-World War II to today. He studied in Rome, then took part in the war where he was imprisoned, returned to painting and realism with attention to Daumier and Goya, and finally befriended the Gruppo del Portonaccio with whom he founded the Gruppo '56. But it is his Cancellate (1957) that offer his most innovative research, followed by detailed informal analysis that continued until 1961.Biggi continued with his explorations in the cycles Variabili (1970s), Cieli, Campi (1970s-1980s), Ciclo della Follia (1988), Le quattro stagioni (1995-1998), Costellazioni (1989-1994), New York (1990-2006), La guerra e la pace (2005-2006), and Puntocromie (2005-2009).In Gastone Biggi's painting, the key remains his constant dialogue with atonal music, which explains the variations on the theme, the accents of "colour," the articulated geometric structure in versions re-proposed with different tones and signs. In fact, Biggi listened to Bach and Mozart as well as Berio and Scho¨nberg.This catalogue of works that Biggi himself created, along with Giorgio Kiaris, includes approximately 4,000 paintings out of the 6,000 he had made but in part destroyed, spanning his debut to 2014, joined with a sampling of his temperas and drawings. This catalogue will also provide in chronological order the many cycles that are examined and described; each will have its own specific entry. The publication will also offer a vast selection of writings by some of the most important art critics; also present will be a noteworthy selection of writings by Gastone Biggi whose knowledge of his own research and that of others is well-known.