Piero Fogliati’s career eludes all categorisation, all labels. It began in the 1960s and developed through to the new millennium. I agree with the idea that his work should be regarded as the work of a pioneer, in just the same way as the early experiments of Meliès, Moholy-Nagy, Harold Edgerton and Yves Klein were. Among contemporary artists,...

Aged over 80, artist Piero Fogliati works incessantly, carrying forward his research into light, which began when as a boy he decided to achieve his great dream: to colour rain.  In his pieces, Piero Fogliati repairs the fracture between art, science, philosophy and spirituality that had degenerated inexorably since the separation of the branches...

Fogliati Piero (Canelli, Turin) Italian artist. Since the 1960s, he has explored the physical and expressive limits of perception. In experimenting with sound, movement, optics and light, his objective always is to reach what can be poetically expressed in the unexplored corridor between science and art. He works «on the knife edge of the most...

His sound sculptures stimulate listening. Fogliati possesses the inimitable art of overturning phenomena into the ideas from which they originated. He always traces a thousand effects back to their few underlying causes. Look at the suspended tubular laminate sculptures. Instead of producing sound, they capture the sounds of space. Clearly, they...