(ANSA) – BOLOGNA, 16 DEC – A retrospective exhibition dedicated to Leonardo Cremonini (Bologna, 1925 – Paris, 2010) has been inaugurated at the SimonBart Gallery in Bologna, where it will be open until January 31st. “Painting of memory, mirrors and pictorial matter”, defines the architect Pietro Cremonini, who recalls his father’s modus operandi: “he worked without predefined projects, on the white canvas, letting the drippings of color reveal their own shape and their own possible interpretation. The moment of meditation was fundamental, which is why he painted several canvases at the same time and waited for the material to reveal itself “.
Cremonini was the “painter of writers”, as Umberto Eco defined him, referring to the enthusiasm that his work aroused in the sixties and seventies in authors such as Moravia, Calvino, Buzzati. Friend of Peggy Guggenheim, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francis Bacon, Mario Sironi, Gino Severini, Balthus, his works are present in various art collections around the world: from the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris to Moma in New York, from Israel National Museum of Jerusalem to the Frissiras Museum of Athens, from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence to the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Bologna. The preface to the catalog is by Stefano Zecchi, philosopher, writer and former full professor of Aesthetics at the University of Milan.
To Cremonini, one of the greatest figurative painters of the second half of the twentieth century, Bologna – where the artist periodically returned from Paris for short periods – had dedicated an exhibition in the Civic Archaeological Museum in 1969, curated by the Gallery of Modern Art. A further homage had been paid to him by the Emilian capital with an anthology in 2003 at the National Art Gallery and the Academy of Fine Arts (ANSA).
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