Giovanni Leonardo Bassan is a multidisciplinary Italian artist, born in 1989 in Marostica (Vicenza). His artistic training began at the Art School A. Martini, Schio and then continued at the Politecnico di Milano. Giovanni graduated in 2011 with a degree in industrial design and currently lives in Paris, France.
As a contemporary artist, articulating the breakdown of the distinction between high/low culture, Bassan lends a European voice, with the sensibility of classical, historical painting, to the expressionism of the new figurative painting. As an observer of the quotidian, Bassan’s painting is a journey through the Parisian heterotopias, those sites of the elsewhere, beyond convention and norm: In the convoluted atmosphere of the city’s alternative party scene, a rapidly shifting landscape, the artist becomes a voyeur, a portraitist, and a participant. Incomplete images, almost cut out from history painting, appear before us juxtaposed, often half-broken, tilting towards the edge.
Today, his artistic practice embraces disciplines ranging from painting to sculpture, ceramics and furniture design. Bassan tries to offer valuable new perspective, studying alternative techniques and applying traditional forms in contemporary shapes.
His art has been shown internationally, in both group and solo exhibitions.