Carlo Bernardini
2007-2008 Swing Space Resident, 5 Hanover Place
Carlo Bernardini was born in Viterbo in 1966 and obtained his diploma at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome in 1987. In 1997 he wrote the theoretical essay on "The division of visual unity", which was published by Stampa Alternativa. In 2000 and 2005 he received a grant "Overseas Grantee" from the Pollock - Krasner Foundation of New York, and in 2002 the prize Targetti Art Light Collection “White Sculpture”. He has created and installed permanent public sculptures in stainless steel and optic fibres in various Italian cities.
He currently teaches at the Fine Arts Academy of “Brera” in Milan. He lives and works both in Rome and Milan.
Carlo Bernardini is devoted to the dialectic relation between lines and monochrome, representing different moments of the figurative conception of space and light. The painstaking path of abstraction, far from being a sole intellectual strategy, is a gradual research of the line element in order to conquer its essence, as if to trace the invisible. His visual research is currently developed by means of environmental installations in optic fibres.
