Giovanni Brambilla Biography
Giovanni Brambilla was born in 1942 and began painting in 1959. During the 1960s, he joined the "Independent Artists A. Bucci" of Milan and deepened his pictorial and graphic techniques by frequenting the studios of various artists. He also attended drawing courses at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo and specialization in etching in Bergamo and Milan. His artistic training was influenced by the Lombard figurative culture of the twentieth century, a constant matrix in his research into the atmosphere of the landscape and the symbolism of still lifes. Brambilla made some significant trips to North Rhine-Westphalia, where he studied the romantic landscape of Worpswede, cradle of Jugendstil, as well as to Europe, particularly Brittany. He created four large windows for the Church of SS. Trinità in Milan and those of the "Cenacolo" room in the new Parish Center of Trezzo. Since 1967, Brambilla has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, holding solo exhibitions in Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Canada, France and Japan. An exhibition of the artist was hosted at Gabriella Della Bella's "LA NASSA" gallery, which celebrates the particularity of Lake Lecco, in an engaging and stimulating way for visitors. Brambilla's painting is above all the result of frequenting the Lombard artists of the second half of the twentieth century, but also the result of an increasingly rare technical mastery. His still lifes are a series of messages through images full of pertinent symbolism. In his painting we find a state of mind, a moment of silence, the expression of a spiritual fact achieved with simplicity.
