Flavio Bisciotti

Flavio Bisciotti is a multi-faceted individual with several deep areas of interest. This includes his artwork featured on this website, also his company Bisciotti’s design+build, and his championing of artists through his art gallery, FAB Gallery in Santa Monica.

As a young architecture student in Buenos Aires, Flavio Bisciotti began making objects, and he was also immersed in drawing and painting. He received his degree in 1985 and set up a successful architecture practice in Argentina. During that time he opened his first art gallery.

In the early 90s, he moved to California to pursue an artistic career and he founded Bisciotti Design, a furniture manufacturing company with a factory in Downtown Los Angeles. His unique line of furniture could be characterized as eclectic and fanciful, post-modern with a renaissance twist. Now with over 25 years of experience in furniture design and interior architectural detail, Flavio is a master craftsman who can create anything that he can imagine.

In the late 90s through a partnership with real estate developer colleagues, he had the opportunity to design several buildings in Venice and Hollywood. He designed every detail of these custom modernist multi-family lofts, from door handles to custom ironwork to cabinetry and lighting.

Today Flavio has Bisciotti design+build where he designs and builds custom environments and furnishings. In 2012 Flavio opened his first art gallery in the US on Main Street in Santa Monica.

FAB Gallery is just one more expression of his love for the arts. As a visual artist, Flavio creates paintings and functional art. He is influenced by Latin artists such as Wilfredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Carlos Alonso, and Antonio Berni. The subject matter of Flavio’s own work is driven by personal encounters and by the urban environments he travels to.

The spectator of his work is also a catalyst for his evolution. Exploration of materials and a collage process that includes ephemera he has collected over the years, as well as, ideas from earlier sketchbooks leads to work that is a dialogue between his past and present self.

ARTIST STATEMENT

As an architect, I believe that aesthetics rule life. There is beauty in the initial process of gathering ideas, drawing, and designing. I find that connection through my immediate environment, travel, and making objects. For me, the viewer is also a valuable reference point and a necessary part of the process.

My creative drive is expressed through mixed-media works: drawing, painting, collage, design, and construction. A constant dialogue exists between my past and present self. For inspiration, I often revisit earlier sketchbooks, photos, and paintings. Once meticulous and restrained with mark-making, ideas now translate to the page or canvas with greater freedom and fluidity.

Memories of former creative passions, combined with new ideas, keep my work in a constant state of evolution. I frequently refer to documented moments in time and begin layering shapes, lines, colors, and images. I incorporate ephemera that I have collected through the years and from day-to-day life. Through the act of creating, I develop a process that propels me forward.