Fausto Grossi Terenzio

Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

Grossi is a polymath, engaging in various disciplines including sculpture, culinary arts, interpretation, writing, performance, and graphic design between others. As a cultural curator, he and Victoria organize the programming at Spazio Grossi, a self-managed space, which coexists with Pasta and Pizza Grossi. He collaborates with initiatives such as ex!poesía (Biennial of Experimental Poetry of Euskadi) and the international festival MEM, while also contributing to the global mail-art movement, with his works featured in numerous international anthologies of visual poetry.

Grossi has been invited and participated in countless events around the world. Here are some: “Buncher" Venice Biennale 2001 - Italy, MAD03 2003- Spain, INTERAKCJE 2010 - Poland, Kasko Basel 2010 - Switzerland, Infraction Sète 2010 - France, Grace Exhibition Space 2011 U.S.A., VideoBardo 2012 - Argentina, Open Space Performunion 2013 - Germany, Live Biennale 2015 - Canada, PHSA MAKILINC 2016 - Philippines, Bbeyond monthly 2017 - Nortern Ireland, New Space Art Foundation 2017 - Vietnam, ACCIONArar 2018 - Colombia, Performance Boat and Culinary Performance 2018 - Hungary - Galeria Ana Lama 2019- Portugal, Perpendicular como Resistir 2019 - Brasil, Rebel Live Action 2019 - Thailand, Performancear o Morir 2020 - Mexico, Non Gtata 2020 - Estonia, IMAF - Serbia, 7th Burnt of Snow 2020 Inner Mongolia, ODISSEY 2021 - Austria, EDITA 2023 - Spain, FNAF 9 - TRANS 2023- Czechia, Cosmos Factory - Efimero Ifinito 2024 - Mexico, East meet West - with the Le brothers 2024 - Spain, Italy, Belgium.

  • Fausto Grossi was born in Italy in 1954. He growing up among magazines, newspapers, comics, encyclopedias, books and much more, in the family magazine and newspaper kiosk, in Arce, a village lost in the country side of deep Ciociaria, between Rome and Naples. This sparked his curiosity, his need to know and live a fully and passionate life.

    In the early '70s he attended the Faculty of Architecture in Rome. being the architect Mario Fiorentino. At the end of the '70s he attended the engraving course at the "School of Art and Crafts" in Granada, Spain. At the beginning of 1980 he was in London, where he studied jewelry classes of Susan May and Dennis Hussey with whom he discovered and began experimenting with Titanium. 

    In London he meets Victoria, his wife. They move to Italy where he studies and graduates as a sculptor in the A.A. B.B from Frosinone, in the classes of Nicola Carrino, who was a founding member of the "Group 1" in Rome. 

    In January 1992, with an Erasmus scholarship, he improved his sculpture studies at the U.P.V. the University of the Basque Country, U.P.V. where he later graduated. In this time, he became friends with several artists with some of whom (XPlanet) founded "Las Chamas", a house for art that establishes contact between the local and international scene to open new possibilities of communication.

    He is poet and as so, he consequently develop his art through sculpture, installation, action art, mail art, video art, visual poetry, collaborating with art and experimental poetry publications as the assembled magazine of visual poetry "Veneno", the New Dada Jurnal “MAINTENANT“, Touroum Bouroum a semi-annual poetry magazine, T.A.Z (Tiny Art Zine) edited by Vittore Baroni, Brain Cell by Ryosuke Cohen among others publications. For the L.U.P.I. editorial he translates Adriano Spatola's book "Verso la poesia totale" into Spanish, already translated into French and English. 

     Traveling to discover the essence of life, human relationships, to know the others and know himself through the others. That's how he's trying to do it. Living the life in which art occupies a decisive place, where the failure it means learning.

    Definitely art is for him like breathing, it is something natural, something he need to live, to feel alive, to be wat he is: a human being.

      In 1992, after finishing his sculpture studies with the sculptor Nicola Carrino at the A.A.B.B.of Frosinone, Italy, he moved with whole family to Bilbao, Spain, where with his wife Victoria, he started the Pasta and Pizaza Grossi and Spazio Grossi project and develops his artistic activity. He is a multidisciplinary and intermediate artist, chef, interpreter, writer, performer and graphic designer. As a cultural manager, he programs the activity of Spazio Grossi that shares place with Pasta and Pizza Grossi. He collaborates with ex!poesía (Biennial of Experimental Poetry of Euskadi) and the international festival MEM. He is also a mail-artist, with works in several international anthologies of visual poetry. Grossi has been invited and has participated in multiple cultural events in France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil, United States, Serbia, China, Canada, Philippines, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Hungary, Mexico, Thailand, Inner Mongolia, Estonia y Austria.

    He traveling to discover the essence of life,  extensively, seeking the essence of life, human connections, and self-discovery through interactions with others. Art permeate every aspect of his existence. For Grossi, art is not just a pursuit but a necessity, akin to breathing—it is intrinsic to his identity as a human being.

    In 1992, after completing his sculpture studies under the tutelage of Nicola Carrino at the A.A.B.B. of Frosinone, Italy, Grossi relocated with his entire family to Bilbao, in the Spanish Basque Country. There, alongside his wife Victoria, he embarked on a cultural and economic venture, establishing Pasta and Pizza Grossi and Spazio Grossi.

    Grossi is a polymath, engaging in various disciplines including sculpture, culinary arts, interpretation, writing, performance, and graphic design between others. As a cultural curator, he and Victoria oerganize the programming at Spazio Grossi, a self-managed space, which coexists with Pasta and Pizza Grossi. He collaborates with initiatives such as ex!poesía (Biennial of Experimental Poetry of Euskadi) and the international festival MEM, while also contributing to the global mail-art movement, with his works featured in numerous international anthologies of visual poetry.

    Throughout his career, Grossi has been invited to and actively participated in a plethora of artistic and cultural events across the globe, spanning countries such as France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Serbia, China, Canada, the Philippines, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Hungary, Mexico, Thailand, Inner Mongolia, Estonia, and Austria.

Works

Selected Projects

Interakcje 2010

Burnt of Snow 2019-2020

Anodigraphy on titanium

Pasta Bilbao

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