Biography
Born in Milan in 1924 by parents of southern roots, moved with their families in northern Italy for various reasons, that the artist never denied origins, but rather on several occasions defended and claimed with passion and conviction.
Reasons of expediency, dictated by economic difficulties quotas, leads family members to direct the child towards more short studies and practical, unfortunately strangers and far removed from its true nature, without any consideration for her even clear inclination towards the artistic and creative .
His passion for painting was, however, to re-emerge and succeed with almost arrogance about twenty years of age, after the dramatic experience of the last war at the front first and then lived in the mountains of Bergamo with the partisans.
His early work, self-taught, date back to 1948 and are strongly influenced by his long stay in the mountains with the partisans, almost physical contact with the earth, animals, trees, sunrises and sunsets, as well as some of his adventures and perilous experiences as a prospector in Val Gandino in Bergamo. He writes in an essay: "The creativity and self-expression is the most fundamental human need as soon exceeded the basic needs of physical life."
In his anxiety, perfectionism, heightened by an innate tendency to self, but also the firm conviction that the research work, undertaken independently entail a disproportionate amount of energy compared with partial and unsatisfactory results, 50 years decides to attend Prof. schools of painting and the painter Augusto Colombo-restorer Giacomo Ciceri and, subsequently, to achieve maturity as a private art at the Brera.
Acquired the qualification to teach figure drawing, taught with great professionalism and dedication for over twenty years, from 1966 to 1988, at the Art School of the Ursulines of Milan, transmitting to his students, with the fruits of his experience and his tireless research work, enthusiasm and love for art in all its diverse expressions and culture in general. "The teaching, he writes, is an aspect of communication, it is even the appearance of organized and knowledgeable."
His lectures had become a kind of cultural moment exciting and involving discussions about art was in fact a pretext to turn debates on topics as diverse as religion, philosophy, science, music, literature. An extraordinary opportunity for enrichment and personal growth.
The acquisition of a solid job and achieved absolute mastery of painting techniques and graphics to allow his poetic world, over many years of hard work, to express themselves in more depth with a language more and more refined, cultured and complex. The works of his maturity is in fact characterize the vigor of expression, design safe, sound system, the intense and original exploration of color and light, the multiplicity of issues, but also, and this is the unifying element of His artistic production, the lyrical atmosphere that envelops them. Expression of a quasi-religious and poetic vision of life in all its manifestations.
His relentless work of exploration of color and language and interests changed over time not only led him to devote more space and attention to the figure with respect to the landscape of the first period of creative activity, but to leave the warm, soft and velvety early and to use color in its pure state, to enhance the brightness, as well as to gain maximum freedom of expression and linguistic balance between expressionism and abstraction, as evidenced by many male and female faces and in the last period particularly from the "sea" dealt with an exuberance and a freedom unusual colors that accentuate dramatic and overwhelming violence and impetuosity of their waters.
For many reasons that I can not list sets up a few shows.
We remember only his steadfast refusal to bow to the laws of a market now, as part of a general crisis of culture, more sensitive to the vagaries and eccentricities that close against a painting like Lomanto that, despite its modernity and originality , proves to retain a dialectical relationship of continuity with the past and did not want to stop at all. The artist called it so sharp and vivid the new rulers of the market "inventors of all external formulas of originality that they rely heavily on a shock to the sensory."
On success, this modest and decent artist boldly and almost always placed before stoically, in a sort of conscious self-injury, working alone and quiet, study, research and teaching. "Man, as such, should be the focus of their experiences, to objectify and have the time to find the links in the recollection of his own interiority. And what is best in silence and recollection. "
Loneliness, however, as was rightly observed, rich in relationships and comparisons, with students as a teacher and as an intellectual with your friends.
During his long artistic career he had the opportunity to experience the sculpture made of poor materials, waste (scraps of cloth and rags soaked in glue and molded on a skeleton of wire), works created primarily for educational purposes if, and to devote much of his time graphic work documented by some eight hundred drawings made with various techniques.
He died suddenly in full work, creative teaching, in May 1997 with the concern that the bitter fruit of many years of passionate and experienced work can get lost or fall into oblivion (a collection of about eight hundred oil paintings, the same number of drawings and small sculptures fifty).
(The quotes are taken from the sentences quoted essay on the Artist "crisis of education in the Art Institutes within the School and the crisis of culture, 1976).
