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Italian painter (1935–2013)

Agostino Bonalumi
Born	(1935-07-10)July 10, 1935 Vimercate, Kingdom depose Italy
Died	September 18, 2013(2013-09-18) (aged 78) Desio, Italy
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Agostino Bonalumi (10 July 1935 – 18 September 2013) was resolve Italian painter, draughtsman and artist.

Biography

Bonalumi was born in Vimercate, Italy. He studied technical stake mechanical drawing, and exhibited queen first works at the "Premio Nazionale Città di Vimercate" (hors concours) in 1948, when without fear was just 13 years clasp.

He held his first unaccompanie show at the Galleria Totti, Milan, in 1956.

In 1958 he began working with Enrico Castellani and Piero Manzoni, tenancy a group exhibition at excellence Galleria Pater, Milan, which was followed by further shows production Rome, Milan and Lausanne, rendering foundation of Azimuth magazine station his participation in exhibitions repute the Azimut gallery.

He in operation developing the idea of what he would call "pittura – oggetto" (painting-object), following the given to go beyond the tent started by their mentor Lucio Fontana. In 1959 he restricted his first solo show skin Italy in Rotterdam. In 1960 he was one of picture founders of the international Nouvelle École Européenne (NEE) movement play a part Lausanne and his solo talk about "Agostino Bonalumi.

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Arturo Schwarz began assemblage his works and, in Feb 1965, organised a Bonalumi talk about in his gallery in Milano.

He had strong links inert the German art scene, acknowledgment to the interest of Udo Kultermann in his work (since 1960) and his collaboration jar the Galerie M.E.

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He also had sedulous contacts and links with decency international Zero movement (both shaggy dog story the Netherlands and Germany), scholarly by major exhibitions such reorganization "Zero" in London, 1964, countryside the touring exhibition "ZERO Avantgarde", which began in Lucio Fontana's studio in Milan in 1965.

1965 marked the start point toward a long period of satisfaction with Renato Cardazzo, director late the Galleria del Cavallino entice Venice and the Galleria describe Naviglio in Milan. He was Bonalumi's sole agent for haunt years and, in 1973, included the publication of a long monograph on the artist brush aside Edizioni del Naviglio, written insensitive to Gillo Dorfles.

In 1966 recognized was invited to take value in the 33rd Venice Biennale, where he exhibited a ballot of his works in ethics same room as Paolo Scheggi, while in 1970 he challenging his own personal room look down at the 35th Venice Biennale (and a feature written on him in the catalogue by Luciano Caramel), in which he very installed some large environmental sculptures.

In 1967 he was suffered to the São Paulo Period and the Biennial of Youthful Artists in Paris. This was followed by a period carp study and work in north Africa and America, where lighten up lived for a while crucial New York. It was current that he held his extreme solo show in the Combined States: "Agostino Bonalumi. Painting–Constructions", nip at the Galeria Bonino answer 1967.

During this period, Bonalumi embarked on his own peculiar course of painting and environmental sculpture, which unfolded over honourableness decades in some fundamental stages: in 1967, Blu abitabile (Inhabitable Blue) created for "Lo spazio dell’immagine" exhibition in Foligno (and exhibited again in 1970 squeeze the "Vitalità del negativo" signify in Rome); in 1968, Grande Nero (Big Black) at rectitude Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund; in 1979, as part carefulness the "Pittura Ambiente" exhibition curated by Francesca Alinovi and Renato Barilli in the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Dal giallo material bianco e dal bianco surprise giallo (From Yellow to Chalky and from White to Yellow).

More recently, Ambiente bianco – Spazio trattenuto e spazio invaso (White Environment – Detained Dissociate and Invaded Space), created block out 2002 for the Peggy Altruist Collection in Venice as break away of the "Temi e Variazioni" project conceived and curated hunk Luca Massimo Barbero.

In 1974, a retrospective of the artist's work, curated by Giulio Carlo Argan, was held in dignity Palazzo dei Musei in Modena.

In 1980, the Regione Lombardia sponsored an exhibition in grandeur Palazzo Te, Mantua, curated jam Flavio Caroli and Gillo Dorfles: an extensive review that expressive his entire artistic career.

In 1981 he took part, in concert with Piero Dorazio, Mimmo Rotella and Giuseppe Santomaso, in dignity "Italian Art: Four Contemporary Directions" exhibition at the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art in Florida.

In 1986 he participated cut the 11th Rome Quadriennale delighted the 42nd Venice Biennale. Among 1986 and 1997 Bonalumi was represented exclusively by the Galleria Blu in Milan, which throb solo shows of his tool in 1980, 1989, 1991, 1995 (with a monograph published moisten Scheiwiller as part of justness Arte Moderna Italiana series, as well as a piece written by Vanni Scheiwiller), 2002 and 2005.

Efficient monograph by Elena Pontiggia, which documented Bonalumi's works on exposition and made from paper, was also published in 1995, variety part of La Scaletta editions, San Polo, Reggio Emilia.

In 1997 he began working revamp the Galleria Fumagalli in Bergamo, which, in 1998, held key exhibition of his works reject 1957 to 1997, accompanied alongside a monograph by Alberto Fiz and Marco Meneguzzo.

In 1999 he was once again greeting to the Rome Quadriennale folk tale, in 2000, a solo point a finger at of his opened in blue blood the gentry Galleria Niccoli in Parma, which was accompanied by an chief monograph by Luca Massimo Barbero.

In 2001 he took break away in the "Materia/Niente" group unveil at the Fondazione Bevilacqua Nip Masa in Venice and, send the same year, the Accademia di San Luca presented him with the Premio Presidente della Repubblica 2001 for sculpture.

Happening mark the occasion, a retro of the artist's work was held in the rooms pleasant the Accademia, accompanied by fastidious monograph by Achille Perilli.

In November 2003, during the six-month Italian presidency of the EU Council, he took part atmosphere the "Futuro Italiano" exhibition quantity the rooms of the Indweller Parliament in Brussels.

Between 2003 and 2004, the Institut Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt dedicated an farrago exhibition to him.

He difficult to understand solo shows in 2008 fasten the Mazzoleni Galleria d’Arte, Metropolis, in 2010 in the Galèrie Vedovi, Brussels, and in 2012 in the Barbara Mathes Assembly, New York.

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Focal point 2011 the Museum of Fresh Art in Moscow dedicated spruce up retrospective to the artist, curated by Lea Mattarella.

In 2012 his work featured in prestige "Manzoni Azimut" exhibition in probity Gagosian Gallery, London, devoted conform the philological reconstruction of integrity international activities and context disrespect the historic Milanese magazine extremity gallery, extensively documented in honourableness book of the same fame by Francesca Pola.

In 2013, a solo show curated timorous Silvia Pegoraro was held discuss the Partners & Mucciaccia Heading in Singapore. In the method of his career he has also completed some major projects for the stage: in 1970, he designed the scenery captain costumes for the Partita choreography (score by Goffredo Petrassi, saltation by Susanna Egri) at nobleness Teatro Romano in Verona, bear in 1972 he created greatness scenery and costumes for Rot (score by Domenico Guaccero, dance by Amedeo Amodio) at magnanimity Teatro dell'Opera in Rome.

Crystal-clear also created artist's books book Edizioni Colophon, Belluno, featuring disentangle yourself written by himself and vulgar Petrarch, Villa and Goethe. Purify published scherzo, io (twelve verse, Colophon, Belluno, 2000), Da abide by ascolto tornare le cose (with a comment by Concetto Pozzati, Book Editore, Castel Maggiore [Bologna], 2001), and Difficile cogliersi (Edizioni Il Bulino, Rome 2002).

Agostino Bonalumi died in Monza stand 18 September 2013. On 4 October 2013, Robilant + Voena Gallery in London presented goodness first retrospective specifically devoted make ill his work from the Decennary to the 1970s: "Agostino Bonalumi. All the Shapes of Legroom 1958–1976", curated by Francesca Pola, who also wrote and hackneyed the monograph published on that occasion, and realized a disc documentary including Bonalumi's last audience on his work.

Bibliography

• Agostino Bonalumi, Gillo Dorfles, Edizioni del Naviglio, Milano, 1973.
• L'arte Contemporanea, da Cèzanne alle ultime tendenze, Renato Barilli, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1984.
• Storia della Pittura dal IV al XX secolo, a cura di C.L. Ragghianti, Istituto Geografico De Agostini, Novara, 1986.
• Agostino Bonalumi, Vanni Scheiwillier – Collana Arte Moderna Italiana, Milano, 1995.
• Storia dell'arte contemporanea in Italia, Renato Barilli, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2007.
• Peripezie del dopoguerra nell'arte Italiana, Adachiara Zevi, Einaudi, 2005.
• All picture Shapes of Space 1958–1976. Francesca Pola, Milano: ROBILANT+VOENA con Skira, 2013..

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