Agostino Bonalumi (Vimercate, 1935 – Desio, 2013) is one of the central figures of twentieth-century Italian abstract art. Emerging from the Milanese art scene of the 1950s, he met Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani, co-founding with them the journal Azimuth — a manifesto for an art radically freed from the conventions of the past.
His research transformed the canvas from support to living matter: wooden structures placed behind the surface pushed the fabric outward or drew it inward, giving rise to his celebrated extroflections and introflections — works in which light and form shift continuously with the viewer’s position. From the 1960s his practice expanded to environmental scale, culminating in the large-scale Ambienti for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice (2002).
He was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1970 with a dedicated room, and in 2002 received the Premio Presidente della Repubblica from the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca. His works are held in major public and private collections worldwide.
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