Biografia
Gino Rizzi is a visual artist with Italian roots, currently working in Belgium. For 15 years he has been using recycled plastics as the main material to create his sculptures.
Plastic hasn’t been investigated much in visual arts in the way he handles and processes it. He doesn’t use simple assemblage or compositions, but wants to transform it changing its characteristic appearance. Often it isn’t immediately clear which material has been used.
Gino Rizzi’s work always relates to what he calls the ‘plastification of nature’. It is multi-interpretable concept. In short, it is a transformation process, initiated by human presence and the way people treat nature.
He creates a world in which he tempts to bring his plastic materials to life. A paradox with reality where plastic can be considered the ‘least living’ material. Indigestible and harmful to all creatures on earth.
Gino Rizzi questions the further development of life on earth.
During his research to a new era, marked by human presence, he takes up different roles: the one of a collector, researcher, hunter… somebody who roams a world still unknown to us.
Gino Rizzi graduated from Urbino’s art academy in Italy. He has worked in Paris for ten years before settling in Antwerp (Belgium) in 2007.
