Agostino Bonalumi

BIANCO

1983

Biography: Vimercate (MB) 10.07.1935 - Desio (MB) 18.11.2013 He completed technical and mechanical drawing studies. Self-taught painter, he began exhibiting at a very young age. In 1958 the Bonalumi Castellani and Manzoni Group was born, with an exhibition at the Galleria Pater in Milan, which was followed by other exhibitions in Rome, Milan and Lausanne. In 1966 he began a long period of collaboration with the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan which will represent him exclusively. Bonalumi, a craftsman from Brianza, finds his own technique that immediately places him among the prominent personalities of the new Italian abstract art. The extroflections. With great formal rigor the artist begins to change his canvases in which he imposes ribs to which the surface, in spite of himself, must adapt. Canvases that are then painted with vinyl tempera which, especially at the beginning, are revealed in rigorous primary colors: black, red, blue, gray, white. Object-paintings are defined by the critic Gillo Dorfles. In the two decades that followed, his extroversions became more and more real research on materials. In 1966 he was invited to the Venice Biennale with a group of works, and in 1970 with a personal room. This is followed by a period of study and work in the countries of Mediterranean Africa and in the United States where he will present himself with a solo show at the Bonino Gallery in New York.