Emiliano Bonfanti Biography
Emiliano Bonfanti was born in Cassano d'Adda in 1944 and began his artistic career in Milan in 1962. He approached geometric abstraction in 1965 and in 1966 he co-founded the art magazine "Il Parametro Arteconteporanea" and the "Il Parametro" gallery. workshop with other artists. In 1976 he began to explore "Texture" in his paintings and in 1983 he began to develop research on primary colors and linear warp. Bonfanti lived and worked in Paris for ten years starting in the mid-1980s, where he developed a culturally rich experience of artistic "contaminations" well before Italy. His work is influenced by Cézanne's paintings, emphasizing the intentional construction of the composition, organizing it according to rhythm, lines and planes, while also considering the limitations of the two-dimensional surface. He exhibited at "Art Actuel France-Japon" at the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and in other Japanese museums from 1990 to 1992. In 1994 he collaborated with the painter Silvano Bozzolini on the publication of a book of woodcuts entitled "IMAGES", with a critical essay by Françoise Monnin (the work was acquired by the National Library of Paris). In 1993 he began to study the interpenetration between "internal" and "external" using a particular linear warp, finally leading him from geometric abstraction towards a more material expression. Bonfanti's works contain both weight and lightness, expressed through thoughtful and concise use of grids and colors. The thickness of his lines varies, emerging or decreasing in the canvas, making it difficult to establish the boundary between light and dark, just as in the artist's mind. Its "qualitative" geometry allows us to perceive the infinite delimitations of space, allowing us to explore, enter the work and experience its pulsation with all our senses. His productions possess a strong plastic vigor of great visual impact, whose chromatic sonority blends with the mysterious harmony of his geometries, labyrinths and traps. With his art, Emiliano Bonfanti achieves multidimensional perceptivity, stimulating the soul of the observer.
