The Works

Aldo Borgonzoni was unanimously regarded as a leading exponent of European Expressionism and Italian Neorealism, with a certain Picasso influence, by critics and audiences, at the center of the Italian art history of the second half of the twentieth century. Being an artist with stylistic originality and freedom, he expressed himself with a dramatic and emotionally romantic touch, through a range of colours lit by Fauvist inspirations, in charcoal, pencil, pen, ink and pastels, oil paints and acrylics drawings, mixed with collage and painted rocks, on various themes - portraits, landscapes, realistic narratives of folk epic and tragic tales of fantasy inspired by the classics, still life, analyses of the outer and inner space of the human being – whose common denominator is the complaint and protest against repeated social violence and tensions, the deep anxieties of the human being’s inner emotional sphere.

Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti (1986) admirably summed up the artist's work: “Borgonzoni organizes or compounds the questions and the answers, gives form to conflicting contents, mixed in a symphonic score in which agonists and antagonists likewise express his innermost movements, the drama that takes place in his inner life.”

The works by Aldo Borgonzoni are held in numerous public and private collections, both in Italy and abroad. His works are disseminated in the Emilia-Romagna public collections.

If you wish to perform a search, you can enter the databases, edited by IBC on the Emilia-Romagna Cultural Heritage Catalogue page, in the Contemporary Art Places Database and in the Art Percentage Database: http://ibc.regione.emilia-romagna.it/servizi-online/catalogo-del-patrimonio-culturale.