Gianni Madella Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

Born in Mantua in 1931, Gianni Madella is a painter who has fully traversed the entire complex history of Italian art of the second half of the twentieth century. A student of a master of abstract art such as Virgilio Guidi at the Bolognese Academy, in the 1950s Madella developed the conceptual categories and techniques useful for comparison with the most significant Italian and foreign authors of the last century: the sharp layouts and the sharp perfection by Alberto Burri; the new and unexpected boundaries of emotion and knowledge identified by Lucio Fontana; the spatiality full of ethical and aesthetic sense of a Rothko; Fautrier's intense and profound informal experience; Pollock's tension and informal drama; the mysterious and coded surreality of Osvaldo Licini, without forgetting the interests and stimuli deriving from Gianni Madella's work as an advertising graphic designer for many years in the lively Milan of the sixties and seventies. Read the full biography

Born in Mantua in 1931, Gianni Madella is a painter who has fully traversed the entire complex history of Italian art of the second half of the twentieth century. A student of a master of abstract art such as Virgilio Guidi at the Bolognese Academy, in the 1950s Madella developed the conceptual categories and techniques useful for comparison with the most significant Italian and foreign authors of the last century: the sharp layouts and the sharp perfection by Alberto Burri; the new and unexpected boundaries of emotion and knowledge identified by Lucio Fontana; the spatiality full of ethical and aesthetic sense of a Rothko; Fautrier's intense and profound informal experience; Pollock's tension and informal drama; the mysterious and coded surreality of Osvaldo Licini, without forgetting the interests and stimuli deriving from Gianni Madella's work as an advertising graphic designer for many years in the lively Milan of the sixties and seventies.