Pietro Antonio Bernabei,

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(born 13 March 1948) is an Italian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

notable for his concept of ''bioarte''. A native of

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

, Pietro Antonio Bernabei has, since 1990, focused his artistic research on life's biological image and its functional aspects, searching for cross-references which unite and disunite

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

and

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. To define his artistic work, he introduced, in 2000, the idea of ''bioarte'''BioArte' - 31 mar./9 giu. 2000 - Museo di Storia Naturale
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word corresponds to BioArt in

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External links

Pietro Antonio Bernabei's Website
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