Original Bernard Damiano Mid-Century Painting
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He was an Italian expressionist painter and sculptor born on January 10, 1926 in Coni
(Piemonte), Italy and died in Nice, France on June 24, 2000. His classical art formation was at the Academia Albertina in Turino, Italy.
His works are numerous and well-known. It is precisely during the 1970s that Bernard Damiano's painting is said to have moved away from a relationship with Jean Dubuffet, the Art brut or the Cobra movement, in "a nervous touch and a triturated paste" to draw his style from the rest of Expressionism. This proposal is however stated with reserve: like the Spanish Eduardo Pisano, Bernard never dated his works, often repeating and retouching the same painting for several years. It is perhaps in the use of the "line-color and the blaze of bright flesh on dark backgrounds" that a break is detectable. Bernard Damiano remains globally today considered as "a precursor and a marginal" in that at his place "the sacred and the morbid merge into a kind of wild obsession".
Bernard Damiano
1926–2000, Cuneo, Italy–Nice, France
- Born/Died
- 1926 Cuneo, Italy – 2000 Nice, France
- Training
- Accademia Albertina, Turin
- First solo show
- Nice, 1958
- Known for
- Expressionist nude studies
Bernard Damiano was born January 10, 1926 in Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy, and died June 24, 2000 in Nice, France. He trained at the Accademia Albertina in Turin; his family later relocated to Alsace, then Vallauris, Villefranche-sur-Mer, and finally Nice.
His first solo exhibition was held in Nice in 1958, encouraged by painter Sylvain Vigny. He developed an expressionist style comparable to Jean Dubuffet and Art Brut, known throughout his career for expressionist nude studies.
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