Ezio Alzani Biography
Ezio Alzani was born in Albano Laziale (Rome) in 1941. After the First World War the family moved to the North, to a small Lombard town near Crema, here he soon began to draw everything that surrounded him from the age of primary school and fascinates him: nature with the succession of seasons, the animals in the stables or in the pasture, the men dedicated to the hard work of the fields, the parents and brothers portrayed in the intimacy of the domestic hearth. He lives the years of childhood and adolescence in a simple but difficult, limited peasant environment, made up of customs and traditions that leave little room for the "different", where what counts is working, being honest and knowing how to sacrifice. In this context he forms his character. And so, rich in that world, when the family, which in the meantime has grown by two more children, moved to the outskirts of Milan, he landed at the Brera Academy where he enrolled and attended, for a certain period, courses professors Campestrini and Castellani. The long hours he spends in the classroom are painful, he misses open spaces but above all he feels the limit of the repetitive academic work of copying. He decides to abandon the Academy and continues as a self-taught. After some solo exhibitions in Milan, Bergamo, Pesaro, following the immediate loss of both parents, he goes through a period of crisis in which he works a lot, but away from cultural and artistic environments. The need to overcome in intimacy the disorientation due to the sense of loss of one's roots and to remove the suffering accumulated during the illness of his parents, leads him to develop his pictorial path which is gradually losing the formal representation of reality to favor matter as an essential means of expressing one's emotions. Those years of intense study of painting, inspired by the teachings of Courbet and Morlotti, and a tormented research led him to the awareness of its informal matrix. It is with this characteristic that he returns to exhibit his works in 1998, forty years of activity presented by Luigi De Santis in the monograph published for the occasion by "Edizioni Bocca". From that moment he resumed his journey as an artist who became "visible" and his works were sought after and appreciated by an audience of collectors and connoisseurs.
