Agostino Bonalumi

This work is in very good overall condition. There are light traces of wear by the corners and on the top of the last ledge along the lower margin. There are two tiny retouching towards the lower right margin.
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(...) Dopo aver sondato a fondo le potenzialità che gli offriva lo sfondamento della bidimensionalità della tela realizzando oggetti etichettabili come "sculture", Bonalumi ritorna alla superficie, infittendola di nuovi e più complessi giochi di pieni e vuoti, di vibrazioni impercettibili, di geometrie sospese, che arricchiscono questa fase della sua opera di una problematicità e di una polivalenza di significati estremamente intensa e captante.(...)

(...) After testing the potentials of two-dimensionality on the canvas which led him the creations of paintings labelled as sculptures, Bonalumi goes back to the surface, intensifying it with new and more complex games of solids and emptiness, imperceptible vibrations, suspended geometries, embellishing this phase of his career giving his body of work a more deep, complicated and intense feeling.(...)

Guido Armellini, Bonalumi, catalogo della mostra a Palazzo Te, Mantova, 1980