Giuseppe Bartolini (1938) - Orto botanico

Lithograph on paper in 7 colors - Hand-signed work at the bottom right and numbered at the bottom left - 50x70 cm - year 1980 - Limited edition - copy that will be shipped with a certificate of guarantee 27/120 - unframed - excellent condition - private collection - purchase and provenance Italy - shipping via UPS - SDA - DHL - TNT - BRT
Biography
Giuseppe Bartolini was born in Viareggio on June 6, 1938. He began painting his first oil paintings in 1958 and the following year participated in the Larderello Prize. In 1959 he established contacts in Milan, through the painter Sandro Luporini, with the group of artists linked to existential realism (Gianfranco Ferroni, Giuseppe Guerreschi, Giuseppe Banchieri, Bepi Romagnoni, Sandro Luporini). He began a maturation process that from a young age sees Bartolini combining attachment to his cultural and environmental roots with an interest in the most important painting experiments carried out by the generation active in the postwar period. As a private student, he earned the diploma at the Carrara Art High School, enrolled in 1960 in the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, but left after two years to devote himself exclusively to painting. In 1960 he won the first prize at the Show of Italian Students' Art (in the jury, among others, Giorgio de Chirico, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Pericle Fazzini, Fortunato Bellonzi). After living in Milan and Florence, in 1964 he settled in Pisa, where he still resides. Since the second half of the 1960s, Bartolini’s painting has attracted the attention of important critics and gallery owners: to name at least the exhibition at the Galleria del Milione in Milan (1967), with a presentation by Franco Russoli, and the subsequent collaboration with the Fante di Spade in Rome and the Galleria Santacroce in Florence. At the end of the 1970s Bartolini joined the group La Metacosa, an artistic alliance formed among some Tuscan and Lombard painters (Giuseppe Biagi, Gianfranco Ferroni, Bernardino Luino, Sandro Luporini, Lino Mannocci, Giorgio Tonelli), active between Milan, Pisa, Viareggio and London. Among the most intense Italian figurative painters, Bartolini has become an interpreter of reality, both natural (the landscape) and metropolitan (the suburbs), combining extraordinary technical mastery with great poetic sensibility, which, of the environment, investigates values of metaphysical suspension and strong lyrical inspiration. Throughout his long artistic career, Bartolini has repeatedly focused on the analysis of the Pisa territory, producing some of his most demanding works in the city of Pisa, such as for example “Orto Botanico,” of 1979, and various landscapes from the early eighties."