Alfonso Frasnedi Biography
Alfonso Frasnedi was born in Bologna in 1934. After studying painting with Virgilio Guidi at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Frasnedi immediately began to exhibit in Archangelic neo-naturalism, presenting a naturally abstract appearance that merges into images dense with sunburst brushstrokes that they cover the whole picture. Already in 1956 he participated in the Venice Biennale and was included in Tristan Sauvage's volume, "Post-war Italian painting", the following year.
In the 1950s, Frasnedi dedicated himself to European informal art, favoring the material-gestural side completely free from referential needs. His painting in this phase is characterized by emotional and evocative contents. After 1962, upon his return from France, the artist recovered the iconic elements of comics and advertising, favoring details and onomatopoeic inserts. In the seventies, Frasnedi returned to a sort of neo-informal, in which geometric elements and vibrations of light played with horizontal cuts and color vibrations with a strong emotional impact.
During the 1970s, Frasnedi participated in important national exhibitions, obtaining recognition and prizes in Italy, France, Switzerland, USA and Austria. After the personal exhibitions of the 70s, the phase in which the synthesized representation of clouds, seas and meadows was the protagonist ends, ending with some reinterpreted readings of famous works of art in contaminating connection with the said clouds, rainbows, seas and previously used lawns.
In the 80s, 90s and 2000s, Frasnedi dedicated himself to vast anthological exhibitions, including that of 1989 at the Palazzo dei Pio in Carpi, that of 1993 at the Sala delle Colonne in Nonantola and that of 2000 in Milan (Senago) . In 2000, on the occasion of the designation of Bologna as the European capital of culture, Frasnedi created a large mural of over seven meters in the center of the city for the Biennial of the Painted Wall of Dozza. Although he dedicated himself mainly to anthological exhibitions in the following years, Frasnedi continued to hold occasional solo exhibitions in private galleries.
