Mattia Biagi, "Tar Bicycle", Sculpture, 2016

This sculptural bench from Mattia Biagi's Metropolitan Sets series expresses the personal investigation of the artist straddling life and death, nature and civilization, preservation...

The dynamics of transformation is a driving concept and process behind Biagi’s work, in particular, the transformative power of coating everyday objects with layers of viscous tar. With his series of round paintings, the transformative power of tar is explored on its own terms, as the singular materiality of painting. While on one level the minimal yet richly textured tar forms conjure dark themes like voids or black holes, they simultaneously invoke the opposite, their perfect geometric circularity referencing solid presence, totality, and completion. Mattia Biagi was born in northern Italy in 1974 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. After working under the tutelage of Giulio Cappellini for 11 years, Biagi departed for Los Angeles to launch his career. During a chance encounter with some black tar oozing from the ground at the La Brea Tar Pits...

This sculptural desk from Mattia Biagi's Metropolitan Sets series expresses the personal investigation of the artist straddling life and death, nature and civilization, preservation ...

This sculptural table lamp from Mattia Biagi's Metropolitan Sets series expresses the personal investigation of the artist straddling life and death, nature and civilization, preserv...

This is a new work by Mattia Biagi Sculptural Tar stuffed animal.   

This is a new work by Mattia Biagi Viola and Tar.  

This is a new work by Mattia Biagi Sculptural Tar Mikey mouse head created by a metal structure, staffed Mickey mouse head tar, cement.  

This is a new work by Mattia Biagi Sculptural tar floor lamp created with a Vintage chandelier, tar, rope.