Davide Boriani (1936)
Italy

"A student at the Brera Academy in Milan, he was a founding member of the kinetic art group T with Anschechi, Colombo and De Vecchi. In 1961, he participated in Nouvelle Tendance and built his "magnetic surfaces", rotating plates on which metallic dust, attracted and rejected by invisible magnets fixed behind the plates, form drawings, sorts of evanescent organisms. Likewise, he carried out numerous experiments on the persistence of light on phosphorus. His kinetic art shows the environments of light and the disappearance of objects through the manipulations of the spectator who becomes an actor (Percorso a passagi programmati, mobile theater built in 1968 at the Maison de la culture in Grenoble; Spazio della stimolazione percettiva, perceptual environment presented at the Venice Biennale in 1970). He was one of the strongest personalities of group T."
(Source, website, Larousse)

Work :

• Che cos’è l’arte? (1969)