The Group T was one of the most important kinetic and programmed art groups in Italy. Introduced an innovative art form through the creation of perceptual experiments and interactive environments aimed at soliciting and recreating different and unexpected reactions in the spectator.
It consists of five components: Giovanni Anceschi, Davide Boriani, Gianni Colombo, Gabriele De Vecchi, Grazia Varisco, the Group T (so called referring to the concept of time, as a new variable of becoming in a space-time dimension that fully involves the user), while relying on a collectivist idea of the artistic work that led to the proposition of works with the signature "Gruppo T", never completely dissociated production from individual personalities as it did elsewhere for other groups who chose to sign their works only and exclusively behind a sign. For more than a decade the works and actions of Group T have raised the problem of the habitability of the work (environment-work) and its interaction with the spectator, becoming the pioneers of operating modes then gained in the next decade. In anticipation of the times and too radically rebellious, for ideological and cultural choices, to follow market strategies the reality of the group has remained partially submerged for a few decades.
Group T can undoubtedly be considered among the forerunners of kinetic art, which actually came into being in 1961, following the experimentation of moving objects conducted by Calder Alexander and Munari Bruno, who proposed experiments of perceptual nature through the idea of artifacts, who acquire their own characteristics through the external intervention of the performer, similarly proposed by Vasarely Victor and the Group N. The group is proposed in a highly significant period for international art, presenting at the same time the emergence of groups with similar artistic intentions, such as the Zero Group in Dusseldorf, Group N, Grav or Groupe de Recherche of Art Visual and Equipe 75, with whom it shares the appearance of breaking into traditional art forms and the pursuit of a new art form innovative and radical. Group T was particularly critical and severe towards the concept of objective expression, which connotes and sums up the conservative attitude of traditional art, which rejects through an investigation of the perceptual variability of the object in the user. The group's intent, expressed through extensive experimentation, is to clear the art by proposing a new relationship between work and observer, transcending the limits and directives imposed by traditional techniques, to guide, direct and fully involve the user of the works towards a multisensory subjective experience.

2009
“Spazio, tempo, Immagine”, CIAC – Centro italiano arte contemporanea, Foligno, Perugia
“Balla – Gruppo T- Grimaldi”, Castello di Rivoli, museo d’ arte contemporanea, Turin

2008
In the framework of the “Arte di sera”, the Filiberto Menna Foundation proposes the video catalog “Gli ambienti del gruppo T”

2005
“Ambienti del Gruppo T, le origini dell’ arte interattiva”, Galleria nazionale di arte moderna, Rome

2004
“Zero. 1958 – 1968. Tra Germania e Italia”, Centro Arte contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena

2003
“Grande oggetto pneumatico”, Faculty of Design and Arts, Convento delle Terese, Venice

2002
Stadtische Museum Gelsenkirchen
Stadtgalerie Kiel
Staatlisches Museum Schwerin
Alpen – Adria – Galerie, Klegenfurt

2001
“Kinetiche Kunst aus Italien, 1958/1968” Wanderausstellung, Ulmer Museum
Stadtische kunsthalle Mannheim

2000
“Arte programmata e cinetica in Italia”, Galleria d’arte Niccoli, Parma

1996
“Arte programmata del 1962”, Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo
Ricostruzione della mostra “Arte programmata”, Olivetti, Milan

1995
“Due secoli di scultura a Brera”, Museo Permanente, Milan

1993
“Trent’anni dopo. L’avanguardia gestaltica degli anni ‘60”, Showroom Baleri Italia, Milan
“Mostra storica in ricordo di Gianni Colombo”, together with “Milano ‘93”, posthumous edition “Opus Incertum” di Gianni Colombo