Dino Boschi
Bologna, 1923 - 2015
After graduating from high school, in 1943 he enrolled in the course of Decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, where he followed the lessons of Giorgio Morandi and Giovanni Romagnoli until 1947, when he won the prize for still life at the I Mostra Bolognese Goliardica d'Arte. That same year he held his first solo show together with sculptor Dante Carpigiani at the Syndicate of Fine Arts in Palazzo Re Enzo and began participating in numerous national exhibitions.
In 1948 he obtained a Purchase Award at the First Interprovincial Art Exhibition set up in the Salone del Podestà in Bologna. In 1950 he stayed in Sondrio and Valtellina where he painted several landscape impressions. With letters of introduction from Giorgio Morandi, Nino Corrado Corazza and Nino Bertocchi, he is admitted in 1951 to courses at the Institute of International Education in New York.
In 1952 he spoke at the 17th Salon des Artistes Occitans in Toulouse. In these years he began the season of awards and themed exhibitions. In 1955, at the Exhibition of Contemporary Art in the Salone del Podestà, the commission appointed by the City for the purchases of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Bologna chooses one of his works. He draws illustrations and satirical cartoons for the political weekly "Nuova Repubblica" and later collaborates with the Florentine monthly "Il Ponte" and the Bolognese weekly "La Squilla." From 1956 to 1967 he collaborated with the "Avanti." His stay of several months in Paris contributes to a decrease in naturalistic interest in favor of an increase in attention to the structure and spatial tightness of the work.
1960 was an important year for his professional growth and for the development of an independent artistic discourse that led him to place himself more precisely in the panorama of new Bolognese art. The 1960s and 1970s saw him engaged, in addition to national exhibitions, in a number of one-man shows at important Italian galleries: the Penelope gallery in Rome, the Torre gallery in Turin, the Adelphi gallery in Padua, the Vinciana gallery in Milan, Maria Luigia Guaita's atelier at the Stamperia del Bisone, the Goethe gallery in Bolzano, gallery 32 in Milan, the Antenore gallery in Padua, and the Alexandra gallery in Rovigo, among many others.
Since 1974, the times of the post-Sixties controversies and the easing of political-cultural tension now over, interesting occasions that put him in contact with critics and the public continue: the exhibition "Homage to Ariosto" organized at the Modern Art Gallery of Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara; the exhibition "Painting and Music from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present," organized in Lugano; the exhibition set up in Berlin "Italienische Realisten 1945 bis 1974"; his first solo show at the Bedford Gallery in London; at the Forni Gallery in Amsterdam, to name but a few.
Museums:
Suzzara, (Galleria Civica d’arte Contemporanea); Bologna, (Galleria d’Arte Moderna); Comune di Gardone Valtrompia.
Bibliography:
Enciclopedia Universale Seda della Pittura Moderna, Milano, Seda, 1969; A. M. Comanducci, Dizionario illustrato dei Pittori, Disegnatori e Incisori Italiani Moderni e Contemporanei, Milano, Luigi Patuzzi Editore, 1972; Dino Boschi, antologica a cura di F. Solmi (Comune di Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, aprile 1981), Casalecchio di Reno, Grafis, 1981
In 1948 he obtained a Purchase Award at the First Interprovincial Art Exhibition set up in the Salone del Podestà in Bologna. In 1950 he stayed in Sondrio and Valtellina where he painted several landscape impressions. With letters of introduction from Giorgio Morandi, Nino Corrado Corazza and Nino Bertocchi, he is admitted in 1951 to courses at the Institute of International Education in New York.
In 1952 he spoke at the 17th Salon des Artistes Occitans in Toulouse. In these years he began the season of awards and themed exhibitions. In 1955, at the Exhibition of Contemporary Art in the Salone del Podestà, the commission appointed by the City for the purchases of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Bologna chooses one of his works. He draws illustrations and satirical cartoons for the political weekly "Nuova Repubblica" and later collaborates with the Florentine monthly "Il Ponte" and the Bolognese weekly "La Squilla." From 1956 to 1967 he collaborated with the "Avanti." His stay of several months in Paris contributes to a decrease in naturalistic interest in favor of an increase in attention to the structure and spatial tightness of the work.
1960 was an important year for his professional growth and for the development of an independent artistic discourse that led him to place himself more precisely in the panorama of new Bolognese art. The 1960s and 1970s saw him engaged, in addition to national exhibitions, in a number of one-man shows at important Italian galleries: the Penelope gallery in Rome, the Torre gallery in Turin, the Adelphi gallery in Padua, the Vinciana gallery in Milan, Maria Luigia Guaita's atelier at the Stamperia del Bisone, the Goethe gallery in Bolzano, gallery 32 in Milan, the Antenore gallery in Padua, and the Alexandra gallery in Rovigo, among many others.
Since 1974, the times of the post-Sixties controversies and the easing of political-cultural tension now over, interesting occasions that put him in contact with critics and the public continue: the exhibition "Homage to Ariosto" organized at the Modern Art Gallery of Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara; the exhibition "Painting and Music from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present," organized in Lugano; the exhibition set up in Berlin "Italienische Realisten 1945 bis 1974"; his first solo show at the Bedford Gallery in London; at the Forni Gallery in Amsterdam, to name but a few.
Museums:
Suzzara, (Galleria Civica d’arte Contemporanea); Bologna, (Galleria d’Arte Moderna); Comune di Gardone Valtrompia.
Bibliography:
Enciclopedia Universale Seda della Pittura Moderna, Milano, Seda, 1969; A. M. Comanducci, Dizionario illustrato dei Pittori, Disegnatori e Incisori Italiani Moderni e Contemporanei, Milano, Luigi Patuzzi Editore, 1972; Dino Boschi, antologica a cura di F. Solmi (Comune di Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, aprile 1981), Casalecchio di Reno, Grafis, 1981
