I try to give substance to a smooth and neutral surface, and make it undergo a deterioration alongside the image, which is also intentionally eroded and scratched. “The surface of the paper on which I create my nudes suffers a series of attacks, which are an integral part of the expressive language of my works. Since 1983, he has been a teacher of drawing and visual communication at a design and advertising school in Bergamo. Maurizio Bonfanti taught painting techniques at the Liceo Artistico from 1976 to 1983. In 2016, his solo show “Limen” was held inside the historic Palazzo Storico del Credito Bergamasco in Bergamo. Bonfanti showed his work at the 2015 “A Different Perspective: Artwork by the Laureates of the Biennial of Drawing Pilsen” held at the Museum of West Bohemia. In 2012, his cycle of works, inspired by the biblical text “Ezechiele: 37”, was exhibited at the Museo Bernareggi in Bergamo. In 2001, on the occasion of the first Day of Remembrance, Bonfanti exhibited a cycle of large-format works entitled “Five Doors in Memory of the Shoah” in the Tempietto of the Synagogue of Turin.īonfanti won the 2004 Prize of the Lord Mayor at the International Biennial of Drawing in Pilsen. He has participated in two prestigious exhibitions at Utrecht’s Contemporary Art Centre in Schalkwijk and showed in major exhibitions in Belgium and Holland. Since 1978, Bonfanti’s work has been shown in many collective and solo exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad. Faceless, the central figure’s condition and emotional state are inferred by the viewer solely through the pose of the depicted body. These compositions, represented in large-format images on canvas paper, display tension between the fragility of man highlighted by body language and the dense mixture of the unraveling, surrounding space. These figures are posed theatrically, either standing, seated or crouching, and often portrayed alone, naked and surrounded by darkness. The focus point for his figurative work lies with the faceless human figures placed central in his compositions. The development of a specific viewing angle seen in many of Bonfanti’s paintings was influenced by his experience in the photographic field. His work has been influenced by such figurative artists as painter Renzo Vespignani, sculptor Augusto Perez, and postwar painters Gionfranco Ferroni and Giuseppe Guerreschi. Bonfanti paints in thematic cycles, many of which are influenced by his early religious upbringing. His work, which deals with the themes of nature, the human body and urban landscapes, is produced using experimental techniques influenced by his knowledge of etching. In 1973, he left his study of modern literature and began to pursue his career as a painter.īonfanti spent the decade of the 1970s exclusively working in the medium of etching but later made the decision to concentrate on painting. In addition to his art studies, Bonfanti also studied modern literature at the Università Statale in Milan. Maurizio Bonfanti’s formal artistic education began with studies at the Liceo Artistico in Bergamo with additional courses in etching and intaglio at Bergamo’s Accademia di Bella Arti. He currently works from his studio in Bergamo close to his home in Torre Boldone. Born in 1952 in Bergamo, a city in the alpine Lombardy region, Maurizio Bonfanti is an Italian painter and the son of fresco painter Angelo Bonfanti.
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