Giuliano Babini

Born in Romagna in 1951, he graduated from the Art Institute for Mosaics in Ravenna and later (painting course) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He made his debut in 1971 at the ‘Rassegna della Giovane Pittura Romagnola’ in Faenza (RA), then continued to exhibit in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and all over the world. In 1981 he founded the cultural association ‘Spazio G’ in Ravenna, with Enzo Tinarelli, a reference point for young artists. He is also a mosaicist at Signorini’s ‘Il Mosaico’ studio.
He gained experience in theatre set design, performance, photography, painting and mosaic; he teaches at the Art Institute and Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna and curates and organises important exhibitions and shows in Ravenna. From 1988 to 2003 he was the artistic director of ‘Studio Akomena’, overseeing the realisation of Rudolf Nureyev’s tomb, designed by Ezio Frigerio.
Some of Babini’s works are mosaic sculptures with animal subjects, disturbing, fascinating and magnetic. Hybrid, mythological forms, suspended between dream and reality, in which mosaic combines with concrete forms, with grafts of horns and skulls, with burnt material.