Federico Bonaldi Biography
The sculptor and ceramist Federico Bonaldi was born in Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza) in 1933 and attended the Art Institute for Ceramics in Nove, a pupil of Andrea Parini, and completed his training at the Art Institute of Venice. He began his activity as a ceramist around 1950 and participated in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, contributing, together with Giuseppe Lucietti, Pompeo Pianezzolla and Alessio Tasca, to the renewal of the Venetian ceramic tradition. In 1957 he opened his own laboratory in Bassano del Grappa and in the early sixties he began to obtain widespread recognition both in Italy and abroad. In 1964 he presented some of his works at the Venice Art Biennale. In the 1980s, in his studio in via Colomba 58 in Bassano del Grappa, he created eminently material works in refractory clay, porcelain and stoneware which, thanks to an unscrupulous use of techniques, achieved effects of surprising polychromy. In 1986 he was present with a wick-shaped and painted majolica, created in 1962, entitled Sculpture, at the "Pensare in Ceramica" exhibition organized by the "FA Grue" Institute of Art for Ceramics in Castelli. Federico Bonaldi, also known for his "whistling ceramics", was active until the end in his workshop in Via Colomba and died in Bassano in 2012. Some ceramics created by Federico Bonaldi are preserved in the collections of the Museo della Ceramica di Nove.
