Biography

Aldo Parmigiani was born in the Affori district of Milan on October 17, 1935. At a very young age, he studied with the painter G.M. Mossa, a master who, recognizing Parmigiani's artistic talent, taught him oil painting and instilled a passion for figure painting. Subsequently, between 1953 and 1956, he enrolled at the Scuola Superiore d'Arte del Castello Sforzesco in Milan, under the guidance of Professor Piantini and Professor Bertazzoni, and was recognized as the best student, awarded by the then Mayor of Milan, Aniasi. At the same time, he enrolled at the Cimabue Academy in Milan to take courses in nude painting. In 1973, 1974, and 1975, he attended the Istituto Statale d'Arte in Urbino, located at the Palazzo Ducale, to specialize in graphic art, copperplate engraving, and lithography. In 1960, he held his first solo exhibition in Asolo at the Castello Cornaro, and this was only the beginning of a long artistic career that would lead him to exhibit in the most important and prestigious art galleries throughout Italy and abroad. His first major exhibition in Milan, at the Contemporarte gallery "Il Capricorno," featuring exclusively mixed media, was held in 1973, receiving excellent critical acclaim.
In 1961 he married Enrica, a happy marriage from which, between 1962 and 1967, four children were born.
He shares her life and passion for art. During the years when Milan was experiencing its artistic ferment, Parmigiani opened his studio-atelier in the heart of Brera and became a passionate and frequent visitor to Milan's artistic circles. He joined the "Anselmo Bucci" Independent Art group, a classical formation of those who believe in the values ​​of humanity and the beauty of things.
And it is on this credo that Parmigiani faithfully bases his entire artistic career. A faithfulness appreciated and recognized by critics, as Ignazio Mornino wrote: "This painter fortunately shuns all trends and fashions. He always manages to be himself, in a classical way, which renews the great lessons of the past but brings them up to date with a great interiority of the highest level." In 1976 the critic Federico Agosteo wrote: “…. Today I am making a comment about your oil paintings that harks back to the most beautiful names of our painters of the so-called “Scapigliatura”: I am convinced that if they had called a son to painting they would have chosen you and they would have chosen you not by chance, just as it is not by chance that you chose to be a student of GM Mossa to whom Alciati and Tallone are linked….” And again, in 1978, he wrote: “You are also distinguished, to your great superiority, by not having allowed yourself to be misled by the easy fashion, very current today, of operating according to what is praised, and better, by following the manners in vogue: let it be even clearer and to your credit that you have not lost yourself in viewing….and chasing the paintings…..of others!….Therefore the path you have admirably undertaken and constantly followed has had no pauses and uncertainties, indeed today it demonstrates even more the validity of your address always oriented towards the values ​​of Art, that which is similar to itself, that which is true, that which is free from speculation of fate.” Simultaneously with oil painting, he experimented with a new pictorial technique, a combination of charcoal and sanguine, which over time and with careful study he perfected and renewed through an increasingly casual and less academic approach, which will consecrate him as a complete artist. Using mixed media, he creates striking chromatic effects that attract the attention of critics. Many of his most important religious paintings are also produced using mixed media. In 1983, he created his first Stations of the Cross, a 14-panel work, housed in the Parish Church of SS Pietro e Paolo in Abbiate Guazzone-Tradate (Varese), his adopted hometown. Also in 1983, on the occasion of the 4th centenary, he created the reconstruction of the Miracle of Weeping, housed in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrows in Rho (Milan). In 1978, in the Church of San Baudolino in Alessandria, he created the large-scale work “Madonna with Child,” a reproduction of one of his maternity images that excluded traditional sacred features and was therefore defined by critics as a “Lay Madonna.” Highly appreciated, even today it is a symbol of devotion and a propitiatory destination for young married couples. In 1989, again in mixed technique, in the Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Monti di Grotto, Carlazzo (Como), he created the work “Madonna Assunta”. In 1998, in the apse of the Parish Church of San Martino in Ispra (Varese) he created two large-format works “Annunciation” and “Good Shepherd”. In 2009 his second Via Crucis, a work of 14 panels created for the Church of the Visitation of the Luigi A. Galmarini Hospital in Tradate (Varese). The large-format works from 1970 “Jesus among the Children”, present in the Chapel of the Asylum of Abbiate Guazzone-Tradate (Varese) and from 2008 “Let the Little Children Come to Me” are instead made in oil; Present in the Affori Nursery School, Milan. The Crucifix, an oil painting from 1990, is in the Church of San Rocco in Carlazzo (Como). In 1978, he began his collaboration with Gold Market, a publisher of gold and silver leaf paintings. Among his numerous works, a notable portrait of Pope Carol Wojtyla, painted in two formats on silver leaf, is noteworthy.
The original mixed-media painting was later donated to the Holy Father by Inter Football Club of Milan, represented by President Pellegrini, after they were received in audience at the Vatican. The portrait of the Honorable Sandro Pertini, then President of the Republic, painted in 1983, is also in mixed media. It was donated by the Provincial Administration of Alessandria on the occasion of the President's visit to the Alessandria area. In 1982, he published his first monograph, edited by Carlo Munari, who wrote of Parmigiani: "Each painting is a station of his pilgrimage into the heart of a nature that perpetually renews itself. In it, however, not only a state of mind is substantiated. Rather, an attitude of the spirit is visualized: the happy, conscious participation of a creature in Creation... The intensity of expression in Parmigiani's work is directly related to the spiritual intensity with which the artist is endowed... If one were to venture a definition, it would be said that Parmigiani is a modern painter with a heart. ancient”. Spiritual and emotional intensity of which, already in the 1970s, the critic Mario Monteverdi had written: "Our artist maintains a full individuality of style in the conquest of a poetic world whose validity is connected with the survival of the values ​​of the spirit, inseparable from those of sentiment". In 1984 he held his first solo exhibition in the United States, at "Magadini Galleries" in Scottsdale, Arizona. The year 1996 saw him engaged in a major solo exhibition held in the rooms of the Museum of Arts of Palazzo Bandera in Busto Arsizio (Varese). It was a fundamental stage in his artistic life because the art historian Mario De Micheli would edit and present the catalogue of the event, the first volume of the New Series "Art and Music", Istituto Seledi, published by the Museum of Arts of Palazzo Bandera, in the historic Museum of the Teatro della Scala in Milan. Of Parmigiani, Mario De Micheli writes: “…Perhaps his paintings should be considered the fruit of a true and late Impressionism….He is not afraid to paint with extreme trepidation and emotion the landscapes that the Impressionists loved….Parmigiani is here, in the spontaneity of his expression, in the value of his immediate and direct images: he is here with the persuasion of a sure quality and a sure talent.” In 2000, Tradate, his adopted city, dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him, displaying around a hundred works from 1956 to 1990, and the publication of a volume introduced by art expert Silvio Locatelli, who writes of Parmigiani: “Man and nature: eternal reasons for observation. Aldo Parmigiani chooses this path. Apparently the easiest, the most followed over the centuries, in reality the most complex. First of all, you have to know how to see, you have to know how to draw, you have to know how to painting. One cannot be a master of an art without having practiced it with humility and commitment”. In 2005, with his wife Enrica, he published his first art book “Remissel de penser” containing twenty poems in Milanese by Enrica and six of her original lithographs. In 2011, the second art book “I color de l'anima”, containing twenty poems in Milanese by Enrica and four of her original etchings. In 2010, he was a guest in the splendid setting of Villa Recalcati, headquarters of the Province of Varese, with an important personal anthology of works from 1950 to 1990. The published volume “La civiltà dello sguardo” is edited by Enrico Badellino, who writes about him: “The emotion, in Parmigiani, is always filtered by an innate aristocratic composure, a finesse and a sense of proportion that make his painting a masterly lesson in the civility of the gaze”. A painter of reality, modern with an ancient heart, the work of Parmigiani, who has become part of the Italian and international artistic heritage, confirming him, today, among the greatest artists of contemporary art.

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