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Fausto GROSSI, Italy

Born in 1954 in Arce Italy, lives and works in Bilbao, Spain.

Fausto Grossi studied sculpture with Nicola Carrino at the Academy of Fine Arts of Frosinone, where he graduated in 1992. That same year, he moved to Bilbao (Spain) where he still resides. In Spain, he participated in several initiatives, projects and activities in Bilbao, Salamanca, Mallorca, Valencia, St Jacques de Compostela, Barcelona and San Sebastian.

Fausto Grossi took part in the poetic project "Buncher" at the Venice Biennale in 2001. In 2002, he organized an exhibition at Windsor in Bilbao.

“…art is for me something natural something I need to live to feel alive to be what I am or what I would like to be this thing of live art seems to me almost banal I think art is a human activity like others dedicate themselves to medicine to brickwork to bookkeeping to charity to voluntary work and in consequence I dedicate myself to art it’s something I’ve been doing since childhood it fills me it fulfills me it makes me feel a person it makes me feel alive and useful to the others it’s what I like to do but I don’t know if I know how to do it and so this thing of art of action art I sucked observing people persons I do what I think I have to do but still I’m not so sure that the way I do it is the best way I am on the crossroads...”