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Bernard Damiano
Peisaggio Nizza, Landscape of Nice, Impasto Oil on Canvas

1997

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Colourful impasto landscape of the countryside around the Cote d'Azur by Bernard Damiano. The painting is signed to the front and is signed, titled, dated and with a dedication to the back of the canvas. Bernard Damiano is an Italian painter and sculptor influenced by Expressionism , born on January 10 , 1926 in Coni (Piedmont ), and died on June 23, 2000 in Nice . This highly coloured and highly textured painting typifies the vibrancy of Damiano's work and captures the intensity of light in Nice in the South of France. At points, the paint which swirls in an unlikely mix of electric colours, is very thick. A real talking piece with great impact and amazing energy. Biography Bernard Damiano was born in Coni, Italy but his parents then emigrated to Alsace and then to Vallauris in the south of France ( famous for its pottery and where Picasso produced his ceramics ). In 1940, whilst he was learning the craft of stone cutting in the Revello workshop in Cuneo, Bernard Damiano formed a lasting friendship with the future poet and linguist Sergio Arneodo: later, they collaborated on the cultural enrichment of a village in Val Grana , Sancto-Lucio de Coumboscuro. Damiano's skills were many and varied. He first found a job as a stonemason and marble cutter in Tende (Alpes-Maritimes) in 1948 (it was there that he met his wife Giselle ), then worked as a cabinetmaker in Nice in 1951. He lived successively in Nice , Villefranche-sur-Mer, Vallauris, then Nice again where, in a workshop located in a basement of rue Benoit Bunico in Old Nice , he painted while studying Renaissance painters and impressionists . During his first personal exhibition in Nice in 1958 (quickly followed by participation in salons), Bernard Damiano received the encouragement of Nice painter Sylvain Vigny (1904-1970) with whom he became good friends. His life in Nice was interrupted by two years in Paris (Damiano then resided in rue Saint-Vincent , in the heart of Montmartre ), coinciding with his first personal exhibitions in the capital in 1966 and 1968. He obtained French nationality in October 1974 and from that point onwards divided his time between Nice and San Remo. It was during the 1970s that Bernard Damiano's painting was said to move away from a kinship with Jean Dubuffet , Art Brut and the Cobra movement in his desire to move beyond expressionism. Although interestingly Damiano rarely dated his works, often repeating and even retouching the same painting for several years after. In the 1970's the use of the colour line and depiction of glowing flesh against a sombre background offer a glimpse of his break with his previous style. Bernard Damiano remains globally seen today as a marginal in that for him the sacred and the morbid merge into a sort of savage obsession .
  • Creator:
    Bernard Damiano (1926 - 2000, Italian)
  • Creation Year:
    1997
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 23.75 in (60.33 cm)Width: 28.75 in (73.03 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Cotignac, FR
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: GB1stDibs: LU143027462522
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