19/02/2014

Giuseppe Biasi was born in Sassari in 1885.

In 1909, he began cooperating with the writer Grazia Deledda, and his illustrations were published in the "Giornalino della Domenica"; his watercolour "Processione nella Barbagia di Fonni" was then admitted to the Venice Biennial Exhibition.
In 1913, thanks to his participation in the 1st Roman Secession Exhibition, he started being noticed nationally. In 1914, he took part in both the 2nd Roman Secession Exhibition and the Venice Biennial Exhibition, where, in1920, he was also awarded the prize of the “Opera Nazionale Combattenti”.

In 1924, he left for Northern Africa. He stayed in Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Egypt, where, in 1926, he held a solo show at the Paul Gallery in Alexandria. In February1927, he exhibited in Cairo with two pioneers of Egyptian Modern Art, the sculptor Mukhtar and the painter Said; soon after, he moved back to Sardinia.

In1928, he took part in the Venice Biennial Exhibition with two works; in December 1929, he exhibited
at the 1st Biennial Exhibition of Sardinian Art in Sassari, where he was invited the following year as well. In 1931, he was at the 1st Roman Quadrennial Exhibition and also had a personale at the 1st Colonial Art Exhibition in Rome.

In 1936, he was at the Venice Biennale, but he regained success, nationally, thanks to two solo shows which were organized respectively at the Dedalo Gallery in Milan (1937) and in Pesaro (1938). Then, after an exhibition held in 1937, he came into close contact with the Piedmontese town of Biella.

In 1939, he mainly worked in Sassari, where he held a one-man exhibition devoted to landscapes and realized the mosaic of the monumental staircase of the “Palazzo di Giustizia”. He also started the decorations of Fertilia Church, but, unfortunately, it was left unfinished. In 1943, he drew the mosaic of the Broglio Chapel in Biella and was also entrusted the decorations of the church of the Civil Hospital.

Giuseppe Biasi died tragically in 1945.