Gianni Brusamolino Biography
Gianni Brusamolino (Cassano d'Adda, 30 January 1928) is an Italian artist. At 15 he began his artistic journey, establishing his education through the study of Archaic Greece, the Renaissance up to Futurism and Cubism. In 1947 he won the first prize for painting and the following year the drawing prize in two competitions organized by the Ministry of Culture in Rome. He met Giorgio de Chirico there. In the same years he settled in Milan and enrolled in Brera. Here he follows the courses of Carlo Carrà, Marino Marini and is active in the artistic life of Milan. In 1953, the first themed solo exhibition arrived at the Schettini Gallery, “La Città” and “Il Gallo”. The following year he exhibited with Bepi Romagnoni in the same gallery. In 1956 he went to France, at the invitation of the French entrepreneur Paul Ricard, and established a constructive partnership with him. In 1960 he returned to Italy and tackled the theme "The River of Gianni Brusamolino". He was called again to France by Paul Ricard in 1964, who entrusted him with large sculpture and painting works dedicated to the history of seven French cities: Paris, Marseille, Dijon, Rennes, Lyon, Bordeaux and Mandelieu-la-Napoule (Cannes). In 1969 he exhibited his work “La traite des noirs” together with Salvador Dalì's work “La Peche au thon” at the Galerie de Bendor (Bandol, Varo). He returned to Italy in 1972 to work on the theme of “Fagokinesis”. He designed then in collaboration with Alberto Veca the theoretical manifesto "For a determination of plastic space". In 1983 he was invited to hold an exhibition at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara. The studies for the large composition "Beyond Allegria" (dimensions 8x3 ,70m), which will end in 2000. In 1987 he received a commission from the Reynolds Tobacco Company for a large work (6x3m) entitled “The Light – The Leaves”. In the nineties he continued to work simultaneously on painting and sculpture, on the themes “ Lungo Suono”, “Tra-Perari” (sculptures) and “Guardiani-Guerrieri” (painting and sculpture). In 1994 the first major anthological exhibition arrived at the Angelicum in Milan, entitled “A sculpture and more”, while in 1997 , with the patronage of the Consulate General of Switzerland in Milan, exhibits sculpture works entitled "Five works on the theme" in the square in front of the same. Other anthological exhibitions followed: “War, Peace” in 2003 in Compiano (PR), “Epic perspectives of the Myth” in 2010 at the Parisi-Valle Museum in Maccagno (VA). Finally, in 2012 he composed, with an engraving technique (etching), 60 plates entitled "In the sign of Eros" at the art printer-publisher Giorgio Upiglio in Milan. The same one who, in 1964, created for Brusamolino the etchings of the collection "La Giorno Provvisoria", presented by Salvatore Quasimodo on poems by Curzia Ferrari.
