Bruno De Cerce (1916-2000 ) - Una calla a Venezia (1969)

Interesting work by painter Bruno De Cerce (Campobasso 1916 - Milan 2000) oil on canvas mounted on cardboard in good condition.
The artwork measures 40x30 cm.
The frame is original to the period and has its protective glass.
LE ORIGINI (anni ’60)
The Cultural Group of Via Bagutta Artists was born in Milan in the early 1960s, initially under the name:
“Gruppo Culturale Pittori di Via Bagutta”
Founder and main driver: Bruno De Cerce, painter.
The idea sprang from the desire to offer Milanese artists a free, popular, and open-air space in which to exhibit, outside the gallery circuit and away from academic logics.
The first “protest exhibitions” Before the official birth, some artists showed their paintings illegally along the walls of the street, as a provocative gesture: art in the street, for everyone, entering directly into city life.
These “spontaneous exhibitions” created a strong movement of interest and led to the formation of the group.
The idea — launched by painter Bruno De Cerce — was to create an art show en plein air, that is outdoors, along Via Bagutta: a phenomenon that for Milan could reproduce the spirit of artistic freedom already seen in other cities (one thought of a twinship with the Roman street dedicated to artists).
In the early years, however, it was not easy: the artists were defined as “rebels,” considered outside the official norms — so much so that the first “protest shows on the walls of Via Bagutta (1960)” are now part of the group’s history.
Provenance private collection Milan, Italy
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