Agostino Bonalumi

Acquistato dall'attuale proprietario negli anni Settanta

This work appears to be in generally good overall. There is minor and threadlike craquelure along the left edge, by the upper right corner of the central shape and towards the upper left curved shape. There are 3 tiny stains, 2 towards the center of the painting and 1 towards the left central part of the curved shape. Under UV light are visible few tiny retouching on the curved corner of the left shape and to the center of the lower edge. There is a pin-pointed loss towards the left upper edge. Colours are darker compared to catalogue illustration.
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L'opera è accompagnata da attesato di libera circolazione

An export licence is available for this lot

“ Che ogni opera sia una tappa nell’attività di un artista è quasi una banalità: meno banale è  invece dover pensare a ogni opera come a una possibile variante di un disegno più vasto, che prevede infinite prove, e che nel momento in cui si realizza – o si guarda – quel singolo lavoro, si concretizza in quell’opera tutto il progetto globale. Non possiamo, cioè, guardare al lavoro di Bonalumi senza ‘sapere’ della sua indagine sullo spazio, e allo stesso tempo ne guardiamo il risultato formale e spaziale per quella capacità di concentrare all’interno del perimetro che l’artista si è scelto tutto il suo pensiero”. (Marco Meneguzzo, Oggetto, Superficie, Pittura, in Agostino Bonalumi, Edizioni Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, 2003)

“The fact that every piece is a way station in an artist’s career goes almost without saying: what may need to be said a little more, on the other hand, is that it is necessary to conceive each piece as a possible variant to a more extensive design, one whose plan includes endless tests, and that, at the moment when that single piece is made – or observed – the entire project is condensed into that one piece. In other words, we cannot observe Bonalumi’s work without ‘knowing’ about his research into space, while at the same t.mes we observe its formal and spatial result for the ability to concentrate within the perimeter that the artist chose for his entire thinking”.