The artist 108, born Guido Bisagni (Alessandria, 1978), is a pioneer of writing, an established abstract artist and
one of the greatest exponents of post-graffiti in Italy. His poetics effectively combines the practice of writing and
a long experience of mural painting with a synthesis of shapes, colors and spatiality that 108 has refined with a degree in Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano. Highly identifying - in its aesthetics -are the dominant use of the color black, the references to primitive art and the relationship with nature; the black of 108 is both form and concept; minimal but at the same time full of meaning and energy; abstract, but also figurative and sonorous.
In short, an unmistakable trait. In his work are simultaneously present the influence of the artistic avant-garde and an explicit reference to the European underground scene in which he grew up. Its walls are visible all over the
world; his works have been acquired by numerous private collections both in Italy and abroad as well as exhibited in important international shows including the Venice Biennale in 2007, the large group show Mapping the City curated by Rafael Schacter at Somerset House in London in 2015 and the Moscow Biennale of Urban Art in 2014 and 2018.
He lives and works between Alessandria and Milan.