Sergio Bonfantini - Plants

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 a remarkable reduction of sensory data. The representation is resolved entirely through color, whose application plays a clear structural role in arranging itself across different levels and reconstructing a complex space. The color is very full-bodied, and this characteristic allows Sergio Bonfantini to explore the volume of objects even within a substantially two-dimensional surface. Compositionally, the painting is resolved through a coloristic material that is almost sculpted by the painter.

Sergio Bonfantini was born in Novara in 1910 and passed away in 1989. He trained in Turin with Felice Casorati. His pictorial production is very original, as it is based on an extremely synthetic expressionism, which looks to Permeke, but is inspired by a rural world. He exhibited numerous times at the Venice Biennale (1930, 1932, 1936) and at the
Roman Quadrennial (1931, 1935, 1939).

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