Riccardo Biavati was born in Ferrara on February 14, 1950. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Biavati devoted himself to sculpture, favoring ceramic materials. In 1975 he took part in the Quadrennial of Modern Art in Rome with some polychrome terracottas. In 1987 the first participation in the 45th International Ceramics Competition of Faenza. From 1977 to 2007 he taught pictorial disciplines at the "Dosso Dossi" Art Institute in Ferrara, transferring various professional experiences into teaching. In the early 1980s his plastic research focused on refractory clays and the resulting high temperatures. Subsequently the semirefractari and the grés will be used, with tenuous colors and from the satin surfaces; particular chromatic results will be obtained with the interaction between colored clays and glazes.

It is the world of prehistoric ceramics, but also popular to be investigated, with ceramics of elementary expressiveness, intentionally infantile. All the work, up to the current results, is inspired by the natural world: animals, trees, mountains, woods and stars, together with childhood memories, such as the stories invented by the grandfather, the stoves, the fumes, the domestic landscapes. Furthermore, the vast repertoire of ceramic archeology is an inexhaustible source for new plastic adventures, where poetry and lightness are the stylistic key.

With his wife he creates La Bottega delle Stelle, a ceramic laboratory parallel to that of his studio and in 1992 he was invited to Japan at the traveling exhibition "Italian Contemporary Ceramics" with stops in Saga, Shigaraki and Toki, where he will exhibit his work "Where he sleeps night ", now at the International Ceramics Museum in Faenza. In 1997 he exhibited at the Circolo degli Artisti of Faenza with the exhibition "L'Officina delle stelle or Stufe degli Dei" with texts by Giorgio Celli. Numerous exhibitions will follow, including: "Riccardo Biavati and La Bottega delle Stelle", Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Ferrara, with texts by Eduardo Alamaro and Angelo Andreotti; "Luci Lucerne Lucignoli", Lungarotti Foundation, Torgiano; 54th Venice Biennale, Sala Nervi, Turin; Vaselle d'Autore "by Nino Caruso, Municipality of Torgiano.

In recent years his research has focused in particular on the crystalline ash-based, ancient oriental derivation, with almost monochromatic results.

Solo exhibition (selection)

Group exhibition