Lucio Dalla
2023Single piece Dated Titled
Size
20 x 15.75 in
Year
2023
Medium
Paintings
Reference
5676708d
Oil on canvas.
The custom-made frame is included in the price and is decorated with bricks reminiscent of the game of Lego. Unique hand-signed work accompanied by the certificate of authenticity.
The canvas was made in 2023 exclusively for the BRICKART exhibition to be held in Bologna, at Palazzo Belloni, from July 6 to September 24, 2023.
The subject features a portrait of Lucio Dalla, a great Italian musician and singer. The composer from Bologna is represented as a Lego omino, according to the ironic style of the painter Bolcato.
Lucio Dalla is painted standing with the sax in the square in Bologna (in the background we see, in fact, the Torre degli Asinelli), his hometown that he loved so much and that inspired him in many of his songs. In the background some swallows fly, in a blue and clear sky. Bolcato wants to pay tribute to Lucio Dalla's 1990 song "Le Rondini".
1980 , Italy
Stefano Bolcato is a Pop artist who lives and works in Rome.
He began his artistic career as a self-taught artist in the 1980s, focusing mainly on the graphic representation of landscapes. Subsequently, he enrolled and graduated from the School of Ornamental Arts with a specialization in the Free School of Nude at the Academy of Fine Arts, thus receiving an academic training. During his studies, he followed an evolution that led him from the use of drawing to the chiaroscuro technique and finally to the use of oil painting.
This initial input inspired him to use Lego men as the subjects of his works, which are in fact a legacy from his childhood. He associates games with the ideal characteristics to embody the story and tell it effectively. Through Lego constructions he manages to assemble very distant things that interact with contemporary reality through a playful and captivating setting, encompassing multiple news themes.
The peculiarity of his production is that it follows a transversal path, although Lego are colourful elements associated with childhood, he makes them tell current affairs and news stories. Themes and subjects vary in his artistic proposal, a research that moves between metaphysical atmospheres, social themes and a particular attention to the value of artistic and cultural heritage.
The collection in the gallery is dedicated to the great masters of art, which are readapted and inserted into a lively and playful narrative that offers a new and novel meaning to the viewer.
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