GIAGAN, whose real name is Gregorio Bacci, was born in Venice on August 30th 1970. Both his father Giorgio Bacci , and his uncle Edmondo Bacci , were well-known artists active as early as the1950s, especially the older brother Edmondo who was a major figure in the Venetian group of the Spatialism movement and whose works are to be found in many internationally known collections and museums. Giorgio Bacci, on the other hand, was better known by his pseudonym Baik which he adopted early on in his career in deference to his older brother. After attending High School in Venice where he studied the Sciences, Gregorio enrolled in the faculty of Psychology at the University of Padova from where he graduated in 1998 with a degree in Social Psychology, but even during the years given over to his studies, much of his spare time was spent in his father’s workshop/ gallery in the sestiere of DorsoDuro , right next door to what was then the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and is now the Guggenheim museum. There he learnt the first notions and techniques of what was already a growing passion and once his studies were completed, he took over the running of the atelier and dedicated himself to painting full-time. It was then that he adopted the pseudonym of GIAGAN in order break away from his illustrious forebears and begin his own career. It is precisely for his lively, colourful GIAGAN canvases where his own very individual and original interpretation of the Venetian scene are expressed, that he is perhaps most well-known, but parallel to these works he has introduced and developed more experimental themes into his repertoire , using diverse medium and techniques ranging from the most traditional to the most modern photographic manipulations without ever abandoning work on the GIAGAN canvases and without ever abandoning the central theme which is Venice These latest works, examples of which can be seen below in the section “I Venexiani” and “Wox” carry the artists own name, Gegorio Bacci, perhaps with the intention of reclaiming his own identity. He continues to work in his workshop/gallery in the sestiere of DorsoDuro in Venice’s historic centre.