Tomaso Binga

Tomaso Binga

Tomaso Binga (Salerno, 1931) is a poet and performer, leading representative of Sound Poetry.

Biography and Work

Tomaso Binga (Salerno 1931), stage name of Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, artist, poet, and performer, lives and works in Rome.

In 1971, Tomaso Binga began an artistic and poetic experimentation centered on verbal-visual writing. In the first phase of her career, she worked with “desemantized” writing, an apparently dysfunctional and non-communicative graphic sign, presenting his first exhibition in 1974 at the L'Obelisco Gallery in Rome.

In 1974, Tomaso Binga began his performative actions: the first is Parole da distruggere, parole da conservare. (Words to be destroyed, words to be preserved). The following years will be full of cultural activities and significant exhibitions: in 1976 she will complete a series of works that will remain a cornerstone of his artistic research, such as her “Scrittura Vivente”: letters of the alphabet formed with her own female body and in particular her famous wallpapers.

Exhibitions

Among Tomaso Binga solo and group exhibitions, we can mention: Poesia Totale (Palazzo della Ragione, Mantua, 1998); VII International Congress of Art Media (University of Salerno, Salerno, 1999); Biennale di Venezia (Venice, 2001); Autoritratto di un matrimonio (MLAC - Museo Laboratorio, La Sapienza University, Rome, 2005); Fondazione J. Klemm (Buenos Aires, 2006); Viaggio nella parola (Studio Gennai, La Spezia, 2007); Art Action. VI International Festival (Mantua, 2008); Per-formare una collezione (MADRE, Naples, 2013); Anni ‘70/Arte a Roma (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2013); Corpo a Corpo (GNAM - Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 2017); Televisionario. Francesco Vezzoli guarda la RAI (Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2017); Corporale (Erica Ravenna, Rome, 2017); Tomaso Binga: A Silenced Victory (Mimosa House, London, 2019); Chi ha paura del disegno? Opere su carta del '900 dalla Collezione Ramo (Museo del Novecento, Milan, 2019); Doing Deculturalization (Museion, Bolzano, 2019); Il soggetto imprevisto. 1978 Arte e femminismo in Italia (Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milan, 2019); Biennale di Venezia (Venice, 2022); Vita Nuova. New challenges for art in Italy. 1960-1975 (MAMAC, Nice, 2022).