Bona Tibertelli De Pisis Biography
Bona Tibertelli de Pisis (Rome, 12 September 1926 – Paris, 25 August 2000) was an Italian painter and writer. Bona Tibertelli, known as Bona, was born in Rome but spent her youth in Modena, her father is Leone Tibertelli, brother of Luigi Tibertelli, the painter Filippo de Pisis. Bona began painting from a young age and in 1939 he enrolled at the Adolfo Venturi Art Institute, but he had to interrupt his studies due to the Second World War. The works belonging to the formative period (1939 – 1947) highlight the metaphysical influence of Filippo de Pisis both in the choice of subjects, such as still lifes, and in the pictorial rendering. In 1946, after the death of her father, Bona moved to Venice, where Filippo De Pisis lived at that time and encouraged her to complete her studies and enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Bona's production opens up to new dreamlike and fantastic suggestions through contact with the Parisian artistic world and with the exponents of the third season of surrealism. Between 1950 and 1956 the artist produced small-sized paintings in which the recurring subjects are anthropomorphic landscapes, roots and monstrous creatures inserted in an imaginary and metaphysical space. Bona is one of the female exponents of the movement together with other artists such as Meret Oppenheim, Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning. André Pieyre de Mandiargues, in issue 14 - 15 of the art magazine "Obliques" dedicated to the "Surrealist Woman" will in fact denounce the difficult condition of women in the artistic professions: painters, sculptors, writers and even directors in Italy, France and Spain.
