Italian painter Giancarlo Bargoni was born in Genoa in 1936. He studied art at the School of Fine Arts in his native city. He had his first solo exhibition in 1958 (Galerie San Matteo). After his figurative beginnings, the artist deliberately turned to abstract painting, asserting his interest in color and his knowledge of all traditional painting techniques (tempera, oil, watercolor, encaustic paints, pastels).In 1960, he produced the Manessier sketches of costumes and textiles for Massine's...

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  Italian painter Giancarlo Bargoni was born in Genoa in 1936. He studied art at the School of Fine Arts in his native city. He had his first solo exhibition in 1958 (Galerie San Matteo). After his figurative beginnings, the artist deliberately turned to abstract painting, asserting his interest in color and his knowledge of all traditional painting techniques (tempera, oil, watercolor, encaustic paints, pastels).
  In 1960, he produced the Manessier sketches of costumes and textiles for Massine's ballets. That same year, he began working with Rinaldo Rotta and exhibited in galleries in Genoa and Milan, a partnership that was to last thirty years.
  After a period in Spain, he moved to Ravenna, where he received a scholarship to study and create mosaics. In 1963, together with Attilio Carreri and Guarneri, he founded the Groupe 3 Temps.
  His works are acquired by the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and the Experimental Museum of Modern Art in Turin. He teaches painting at the Barabino Art School in Genoa.
  Giancarlo Bargoni is first and foremost a colorist; he grinds his own pigments and applies them, in streaks, in costly dots, scattered in rain, almost never forgetting white. The color, whether strong or creamy, is intended to highlight the white. Vertical and horizontal applications with knives and brushes always refer back to the white that gives lyrical abstraction its specific tonality. In his work, color is reflected in the glare of white. We can imagine landscapes, a mountain ridge, a rainstorm, the spitting of a volcano, or a firework display. He is also a painter of fire, multiplying incandescent reds and ashes.From 2005 onwards, his art will evolve, with white appearing only more discreetly, in favor of blacks, yellows and carmines, followed by bouquets of flowers. The informality fades without disappearing, but leaves a glimpse of corollas and petals.As a sculptor, he uses white glass, on which he applies fragments of colored glass and, between them, swarms of colored shards.In 2011, the artist discovered Tozeur (Tunisia), the light of North Africa and the crystalline atmosphere of the desert; he then worked in the Medina of Tozeur. As usual, abstraction and gesture mingle with the virtuosity of ancient techniques. Following in the footsteps of Delacroix, Matisse and Klee, Giancarlo Bargoni experienced the test of fire, the dazzling glare of Orientalist suns.Giancarlo Bargoni now lives and works in Castel Arquato (Emilia Romagna), where he continues to engage in a solitary hand-to-hand relationship with painting.
  
  

  

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