Love light
collezione Megalopoli, 1978
lampada con globo in vetro e base in legno.
sfera soffiata a mano con vetro multicolore di diametro cm 15
base in legno laccato nero cm 15 x 15 x 9.

Biography
Buggiani was born in Castelfiorentino, near Florence, on May 9, 1933. In the 1950s, he participated in the avant-garde research being conducted in Rome, with Giulio Turcato, Alberto Burri, Piero Dorazio, Carla Accardi and Gastone Novelli. In 1962, he moved to New York, where in 1968 he received a Guggenheim Grant for research on American sculpture. He returned to Italy in 1968 and was active in Rome and Milan. During this period, he made his Vacuum-Packed Human Sculptures, Paintings on Reality, Stainless Art and Fire as Art. He returned to New York in 1979 and created his Fire Sculptures in Movement, his Mechanical Reptile installations and Studies of Mythological Symbols (Icarus, Minotaur) to be inserted into the urban framework, which made him one of the major protagonists of the Street Art movement.

Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale installations of fire sculptures, in recent years he’s become known as one of the most autonomous and free-thinking contemporary artists. He currently alternates active periods in New York with long sojourns in Italy, where he lives and works in the medieval neighborhood Isola Farnese, in Rome.