Devid Biscontini is an artist from Gualdo Tadino, Italy, who creates sculptures and paintings by exploring the expressive potential of plastic through a unique thermoforming process.

Biscontini uses coextruded plastic films that he personally selects and works with as his primary material.

He shapes his sculptures using open flame and high-temperature air, creating layered surfaces marked by melting, ruptures, and chromatic stratifications. Some of his sculptures depict the female figure.

The works are produced by superimposing plastic films of different colours, allowing heat to fuse, tear, or perforate the layers and reveal the tones beneath the surface.

Visual language and Material

Biscontini’s works exist at the boundary between painting and sculpture. Visually, through strong colour contrasts, stratified surfaces, and gestural compositions, they recall traditional painting, although they are created without the use of conventional pigments or brushes.

This process generates what has been described as a “false trompe-l’oeil”, in which an industrial material acquires an organic, almost painterly appearance.

This approach creates a tension between the artificial and the natural, inviting the viewer to reflect on the relationship between matter, form, and perception.

He has exhibited at events such as Milano Scultura. In his work, he combines technical precision with spontaneous gesture, transforming an everyday industrial material into an artistic form while exploring new possibilities for contemporary sculpture. His work has also been commented on by the Italian art critic Giuliano Serafini.

Biscontini’s work is a process of metamorphosis, transforming an everyday material into a poetic and visual symbol, expanding the boundaries of contemporary sculpture.