Little more than ten years after the death of Silvano Bozzolini (in 1998), the Galleria Open Art in Prato is staging a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work.
Unjustly neglected in Italy, Bozzolini was a Tuscan artist — he was born in Fiesole in 1911 — who, in 1947, decided to move to France, where he met and worked with other great artists.
An exponent of abstract art — interpreted as the possibility of expressing and representing the drama of Europeans in the twentieth century — Bozzolini emerged as a reserved, but very attentive, observer of the international developments in art.
Bozzolini is a figure with a complex biography, who after fighting in the Second World War, abandoned figurative art to become an abstractionist.
A recent study devoted to him — a complex work by various authors — has restored to his art the centrality it deserves.
So for the first time, after years of inexplicable silence, a private gallery has decided to organize an exhibition featuring one of the exponents of international abstraction, with a choice of works telling the story of the artist and his participation in the birth of this movement in Europe.

Dates 6 Novembre 2010 – 10 Gennaio 2011
Private view 6 Novembre 2010 – 5 pm
Opening hours 4 pm – 8 pm Monday to Friday
10.30 am – 1 pm / 4 pm – 8 pm Saturday
Publication Galleria Open Art – vol. 22, Italian /English

Catalogue edited by Mauro Stefanini
Critical essay by Beatrice Buscaroli
Biography, bibliography and list of museums and exhibitions by Sara Meloni

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