TERRA
Paolo Buggiani was born in Castelfiorentino, Florence in the heart of Tuscany. In the early fifties he moved to Rome, where he enriched his study of contemporary art. In 1955, when Buggiani was 22, he participated in the national competition: Incontri della Gioventù where he won first place with the painter Romagnoni. Shortly after, he was invited to 1° Salone d'Estate along with thirty-one other artists of the Roman Avantgard including: Accardi Burri, Cagli Capogrossi, Colla Franchina, Mannucci, Mirko Novelli, Perilli, Rotella Tot , Turcato e Uncini. Buggiani was accepted into the group even though the majority of the artists were 20 years older and already well established. In 1956 Buggiani had his first one man show at the Schneider gallery of Rome presented by Corrado Cagli.

During his sojourn in Paris, Buggiani met Severini Matta, Victor Brauner and Vilfredo Lam who introduced him to the gallery Glasier-Cordiè where he had a one man show in 1958. Below are two abstract painitngs from this period. He moved to New York in 1962 and in 1968 received the Guggenheim Fellowship for sculpture in America for experimenting with a new method of sculpture called the Vacuum Forming System

Donald Judd, Anthony Smith and Philip Guston were also awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968. During this period he was also researching the concept of time as it related to art.

Returning to Italy in May 1968, he was active both in Rome and Milan.

Since 1979 he has been sharing his time between New York and the medieval town of Isola Farnese, in Rome, where he paints and sculpts.

Paolo Buggiani - Installazione
Cinzia Sarto e Sebastiano Tecchio - Video