This volume marks the start of a collaboration between Electa and the Remo Bianco Foundation to promote the work of the Milanese artist, one of the leading avant-garde figures from the 1950s until the mid-70s. A great experimenter and a prolific artist, he explored different approaches and media that make a unified interpretation of his work difficult and therefore call for study in depth capable of restoring his most brilliant moments and initiating a systematic critical interpretation to present his achievement in an innovative and comprehensive key. The first chapter of this project is by Adriano Altamira, a personal friend of Bianco and one of the greatest connoisseurs of his work, and deals with the artist’s beginnings with an exhibition, presented by Lucio Fontana in 1953, in which his 3D works were exhibited. These were cases designed or painted on several layers of transparent plastics that offered the viewer spatial and kinetic impressions that were decidedly innovative for the contemporary context. The “3D period” lasted until the end of that decade, when the artist achieved fame with his “Tableaux Dorés”.
