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 long activity, he combines artistic research with an intense commitment to teaching the arts. Throughout his career he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, also abroad, developing a recognizable language in which the figurative datum often interweaves with myth, symbol, and classical memory.
In his painting recurring figures, horses, knights, deities, and presences drawn from an ancient imaginary, reinterpreted through a modern sensibility. Color, often material and built up in wide fields, becomes an essential part of the composition, together with the decomposition of space and the synthesis of forms.

DESCRIPTION
Torso d’Idea e Centauro
Oil on cardboard
Signed in lower left
Dimensions of the work: 50 x 50 cm

In "Torso d’Idea e Centauro", Alberto Bolzonella puts into dialogue two presences tied to the classical world: on one side the female torso, almost a fragment of 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 shapes, planes, and directions. The background is crossed by geometric fields, diagonals, and sharp chromatic contrasts, which break up space and transform it into a dynamic structure. The deep blues of the left part dialogue with the reds, pinks, and whites of the right area, 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 surface is evident, worked with thick layers and rough transitions, giving the surface a living and constructed character.
The work well represents Bolzonella’s search, 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 legible chroma and a material surface correctly preserved.
Tracked and insured shipment with adequate packaging.