SOLD - Zebra by Dino Boschi - SOLD

Striking limited edition lithograph by the Italian artist Dino Boschi.

Edition 44/60

1972

Size 65.5CM X 46.5CM

Signed bottom left hand corner 

About

Born in a modest social class family, he soon shows his inclination to design. Due to premature separation of parents, she is raised by her mother, who succeeds without sacrifice to provide her with an education. After graduating in 1942, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, but was forced to stop studying in the last years of the war, who spent his time in the house without being enrolled in the army of Salò. ^[1]

In 1945 he returned to the Academy where he followed the lessons of Giorgio Morandi and Giovanni Romagnoli and graduated in 1947. Between 1945 and 1951 he was a volunteer assistant of William Pizzirani (Ornate's Chair) at the Art Nouveau Lecture and Nino Bertocchi (Chair of Scenography) at the Academy. In the same period, he shared with his friend Leonardo Cremonini a study floor, where he painted still life and landscapes in a naturalistic style of Bolognese tradition. ^[2]

In 1947 he held his first staff in the premises of Palazzo Re Enzo . ^[3]

Between 1955 and 1964 he alternated the pictorial activity with that of political vignettist, collaborating with the weekly "New Republic" and "La Squilla", with the monthly " Il Ponte " and with the newspaper " Avanti! ". ^[4]

A few months stay in Paris in 1958 marks a turning point in the evolution of his style: the paintings of the following years - predominantly compositions of objects - show the attenuation of the naturalistic interest and greater attention to the formal structure of the work . ^[5] In recent years, in Bologna, neonaturalism is spreading, "the informal version of the informal". ^[6] Woods do not adhere to this current but draws inspiration from Francis Bacon's and Alberto Giacometti's European experience.

With the cycle of football matches, which was inaugurated in 1965 by a staff at the Civic Museum of Bologna by Pietro Bonfiglioli and Franco Solmi, ^[7] begins the mature career of the artist, which is articulated around some major thematic cycles (stadiums, beaches, musicians, stations, interiors), sometimes interrupted and resumed in time.

In the same year he participated in the collective exhibition "Il presente contestato" (Civic Museum of Bologna), in which Solmi collects the works of Italian and foreign artists belonging to a defined area of "new figuration", evident in polemics with informal and dominant abstractism. ^[8]

In 1966, with the color lithograph "Football", began a long relationship of friendship and collaboration with Maria Luigia Guaita, owner of the Bison of Florence art print.^[9]

During this period, the center of interest of his paintings begins to move from the playground to the stairs: the stadium becomes a gathering place for an anonymous crowd imprisoned behind metal, trellis and erasures. In this way, specimens of the three great canvases of 1967 Panorama , Sectors and Observances .

In 1969 he held his first personal at the Galleria Forni of Bologna, where he would regularly exhibit until 2004. ^[10]

At the end of the 1960s his works, increasingly directed at a sociological investigation of mass civilization, began to explore alternative realities such as football, gambling halls, railroad cars, railway stations, political events and, since 1971, the crowded beaches of the Adriatic Riviera, which will remain the main subject throughout the decade.

In 1980, on the occasion of the 43rd Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , he painted the scenes and costumes of the Summer Games ballet with Gustav Mahler's music and choreography by Geoffrey Caulay (Teatro La Pergola, Florence). ^[11]

In 1981 an aesthetic exhibition curated by Solmi (Gallery of Modern Art, Bologna) documented through its 120 works its first 34 years of activity. ^[12]

From 1982 to 1992 he returned to the subject of the stations with a considerably mutated approach: the human figure disappears and the vision widens, showing clouded skies.

In 1987, the Civic Gallery of Modern Art in Ferrara dedicated him to a staff curated by Federico Zeri . ^[13]

In 1993 he investigated the intimate spaces of his home: the living room, the study, the dining room with the table set. Thus begins the cycle of the interior, characteristic of the "old age" of the artist, which will continue until 2009, alternating with the latest railway landscapes.

In 2011 his painting ( Ferragosto , 2007) was chosen for the regional section, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi , of the 54th Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (Palazzo Fava, Bologna).

After 2010, for reasons of health, he is forced to completely stop the artistic activity. His last effort is a series of watercolors with views of Bologna (2009-2010).

In December 2015, Galleria Forni reminded him of a staff by Franco Basile. ^[14]