Born in Sgurgola in the Roman countryside in 1955, Domenico Bianchi emerged in the early 1980s as one of the most interesting artists then returning to pictorial language as a tradition worth revitalizing after years of radical experimentation in the art world. Bianchi starts off from premises different from those of his contemporaries in the Transavanguardia movement; his paintings do not recuperate the figure but rather represent an expressive balance between the use of icons and textbook abstraction.