Alberto Bolzonella (1934) - Torso di dea e centauro

Alberto Bolzonella

Alberto Bolzonella was born in Padua in 1934, a city where he lives and works. He trained at the State Art Institutes of Padua and Parma and continued his path between Florence and Venice, meeting masters such as Tino Rosa, Amleto Sartori, Armando Pizzinato, Umberto Lilloni, Renzo Grazzini, Ottone Rosai, and Guido Cadorin.
A painter with a long career, he combines artistic research with an intense commitment to teaching artistic subjects. Throughout his career he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including abroad, developing a recognizable language in which figurative elements are often interwoven with myth, symbol, and classical memory.
In his painting recurring figures, horses, knights, deities, and presences drawn from ancient imagery recur, reinterpreted through a modern sensibility. Color, often tactile and built up with large fields, becomes an essential part of the composition, together with space decomposition and the synthesis of forms.

DESCRIZIONE
Torso d’Idea e Centauro
Oil on cardboard
Signed bottom left
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm

In "Torso d’Idea e Centauro," Alberto Bolzonella engages in dialogue between two presences linked to the classical world: on one hand the female torso, almost a fragment of an ancient statue, and on the other the figure of the centaur, a mythical creature suspended between human and animal nature.
The scene is not built narratively, but through a synthesis of forms, planes, and directions. The background is traversed by geometric patches, diagonals, and sharp color contrasts, which break up space and transform it into a dynamic structure. The deep blues on the left dialog with the reds, pinks, and whites on the right, creating a balance between tension and compositional order.
The torso, solid and luminous, evokes the memory of ancient sculpture, while the centaur is treated with greater freedom, almost as a mythological apparition within an abstract space. The painting medium is evident, worked with thick brushstrokes and rough passages, giving the surface a vibrant and constructed character.
The work well represents Bolzonella’s research, in which myth is not reproduced as mere quotation, but becomes an opportunity for a modern composition, made of fragments, visual rhythm, and chromatic strength.

CONDITION REPORT
Overall good condition. The work is intact in every part, with legible chroma and a tactile painterly surface correctly preserved.
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