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 his artistic research with an intense commitment to teaching artistic subjects. Over the course of his career he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including abroad, developing a recognizable language, in which figurative elements intertwine with myth, symbol, and classical memory.
In his painting recurring figures, horses, riders, deities, and presences drawn from an ancient imaginary are revisited through a modern sensibility. Color, often tactile and built up in broad fields, becomes an essential part of the composition, together with the disintegration of space and the synthesis of forms.

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

In "Torso d’Idea e Centauro", Alberto Bolzonella puts 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 built narratively, but through a synthesis of shapes, planes, and directions. The background is crossed by geometric patches, diagonals, and stark color contrasts, which decompose 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, 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 passages, giving the surface a lively and constructed character.
The work well represents Bolzonella’s search, in which myth is not taken up as a simple quotation, 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 the textured painted surface correctly preserved.
Tracked and insured shipment with adequate packaging.