Gianni Brusamolino - Untitled

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

The work is a clear example of an expressionist landscape. Reality is interpreted in an extremely synthetic manner, with an almost brutal exercise in reduction. The surface is completely two-dimensional, with no concessions to spatial depth. The brushstrokes delineate the forms in a very instinctive and nervous manner. Color is used according to an emotional and spiritual interpretation, almost disconnected from reality. Delving even further into the details, we can see how Gianni Brusamolino depicts the vegetation with a series of almost gestural pictorial marks: the application of color is dense and material, in a full-bodied and dynamic mixture of bright hues. Gianni Brusamolino was born in Cassano d'Adda in 1928. In 1947, he won first prize in painting and the following year in drawing in two competitions held by the Ministry of Culture in Rome. During those same years, he moved to Milan and enrolled at Brera Art Museum. There, he studied with Carlo Carrà and Marino Marini and became active in Milan's artistic scene. In 1953, he held his first solo exhibition on a specific theme at the Galleria Schettini. Between the 1950s and 1970s, Gianni Brusamolino's career was divided between Italy and France, where he established a fruitful collaboration with Paul Richard. Also in the 1970s, he collaborated with Alberto Veca on 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. In the 1990s, he continued to work simultaneously on painting and sculpture, on the themes of "Lungo Suono," "Tra-Perari" (sculptures), and "Guardiani-Guerrieri" (painting and sculpture). In 1994, his first major retrospective exhibition was held at the Angelicum in Milan.

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