Paolo Boni was born in Tuscany in Vicchio di Mugello, near Florence, in 1926. He studied at the "Liceo Artistico" of this city where he exhibited his first works from 1949 in personal exhibitions.
 In 1954, he decided to settle in Paris and regularly exhibited his engravings and paintings in France, Italy and New York. In 1957, he began to produce his relief engravings, known since 1970 as "graphi-sculptures"; these consist of riveting pieces of metal of different kinds and textures to...

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  Biography of Paolo Boni

  Paolo Boni was born in Tuscany in Vicchio di Mugello, near Florence, in 1926. He studied at the "Liceo Artistico" of this city where he exhibited his first works from 1949 in personal exhibitions.
 In 1954, he decided to settle in Paris and regularly exhibited his engravings and paintings in France, Italy and New York. In 1957, he began to produce his relief engravings, known since 1970 as "graphi-sculptures"; these consist of riveting pieces of metal of different kinds and textures to one another or on top of one another. Of a relatively simple geometrical cutting, one ends in a mosaic of forms, enriched most often by colors of tone blue, ochre-yellow or red-brown. This formal bias of assemblies and juxtapositions also develops in his bas-reliefs in metals. In parallel to these graphi-sculptures, Boni continues, since his beginnings, his work as a painter. His works are part of the collections of the Picasso Museum in Antibes, the museums of contemporary art in Chicago and Montreal, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the MOMA in New York, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the National Gallery in Washington.
  

  

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