Giuseppe Bartolini (1938) - Orto botanico

Lithography 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 77/120 - without frame - excellent condition - private collection - purchased 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 he 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 his youth saw 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 post-war period. He obtained, as a private student, the diploma from 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 Exhibition of Italian Students’ Art (with Giorgio de Chirico, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Pericle Fazzini, Fortunato Bellonzi among the jurors). 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 Fante di Spade in Rome and the Galleria Santacroce in Florence. At the end of the 1970s Bartolini joined the La Metacosa group, an artistic fellowship born 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 a great poetic sensitivity, which, through the environment, explores metaphysical suspension and strong lyrical inspiration. During his long painting career, Bartolini has often focused on the analysis of the Pisa territory, realizing in the city of Pisa some of his most important works, such as for example “Orto Botanico,” of 1979, and various landscapes from the early 1980s.