Geometrie rosse e grigie

AGOSTINO BONALUMI

Agostino Bonalumi was born in Vimercate, Milan, on July 10, 1935. Abandoning his studies in technical and mechanical drawing, he devoted himself as a self-taught painter, holding his first solo exhibition at Galleria Totti in Milan in 1956. He attended Enrico Baj’s studio and met Enrico Castellani and Piero Manzoni, with whom in 1958 he exhibited in Rome, Lausanne and finally Milan. The following year he founds with Castellani the magazine “Azimuth” and attends the studio of Lucio Fontana, beginning a research focused on space that leads him to make his first “estroflessioni”: works that the artist defines Pitture-Oggetto, obtained thanks to frames and structures that, placed on the back of the canvas, involve its tension and deformation. In the 1960s, his research evolved toward the creation of works-ambient, in which the viewer actively participates in the space, such as Blu abitabile (1967), Grande ambiente bianco e nero (1968), and Ambiente pittura dal giallo al bianco e dal bianco al giallo (1979).Read More