Alberto Bolzonella (1934) - Torso di dea e centauro

Alberto Bolzonella was born in Padua in 1934, a city where he lives and works. He trained at the State Institutes of Art in 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.
Painter with a long career, he combines artistic research with an intense commitment to teaching artistic subjects. Throughout his career he participates in numerous solo and group exhibitions, also abroad, developing a recognizable language, in which the figurative data often intertwines with myth, symbol and classical memory.
In his painting, figures, horses, knights, deities and presences drawn from an ancient imaginary recur, retold through a modern sensibility. Color, often tactile and built up in wide fields, becomes an essential part of the composition, together with the deconstruction of space and the synthesis of forms.

DESCRIPTION
Torso d’Idea e Centauro
Oil on cardboard
Signed at the lower left
Artwork dimensions: 50 x 50 cm

In "Torso d’Idea e Centauro", Alberto Bolzonella places in dialogue two presences linked to the classical world: on one side 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 constructed narratively, but through a synthesis of shapes, planes and directions. The background is traversed by geometric fields, diagonals and sharp color contrasts, which decompose space and transform it into a dynamic structure. The deep blues on the left dialogue with the reds, pinks and whites of the right side, creating a balance between tension and compositional order.
The torso, solid and luminous, recalls the memory of ancient sculpture, while the centaur is treated with greater freedom, almost as a mythological apparition within an abstract space. The painting material is evident, worked with thick brushstrokes and rough transitions, which give the surface a lively and constructed character.
The work well represents Bolzonella’s research, in which myth is not taken up as a simple citation, but becomes an opportunity for a modern composition, made of fragments, visual rhythm and chromatic strength.

CONDITION REPORT
Good overall condition. The work is intact in every part, with color well legible and the painting surface properly preserved.
Tracked and insured shipment with adequate packaging.