Walter Bortolossi

May 2 - June 1, 2003

Walter Bortolossi was born in Basel in 1961 and has been painting since he was a child. He lived in Switzerland for several years before moving to Italy where he has dedicated himself to painting full time. Since 1991 he has taken part in more than 100 exhibitions in Italy and other countries in private and public art galleries. Some examples are "Nuove contaminazioni" at the Modern Art Gallery in Udine, "Fine Weather" at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest and "Va pensiero" at the Museo Civico in Turin. Some of his works have been purchased by The Modern Art Gallery of Udine and make up part of the permanent collection.
Possessing a wide humanist culture combined with a keen interest in scientific and technological questions Bortolossi conjures up an imaginary world linked to themes of contemporary life, playfully comparing economics with philosophical theory, scientific discovery and the world of entertainment in an ultrabaroque and antiminimalist pop style close to that of several American Artists. Culturally and geographically he regards himself as a Mittel-European. Bortolossi takes the deliriums of the Austrian-Italian-Hungarian Jugendstil from the old Secession school to extremes, picking up the distinct sense of the disarming, decadent decoration, but in the place of the golds and the late-Byzantine quotations he places the contradictions of the philosophical and scientific thought of the twentieth century, mixing them with the icons of popular imagery. In contrast with many artists of the same generation who use figurative imagery Bortolossi's painting is mainly a work of theory, where nothing is left to chance, and where every detail corresponds to a precise choice that must occupy a precise position within each project.

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"Pamela Anderson, Deutsche Bank
and the Maraja of Patjala in 1941"

39.37" x 31.49"



"Pitt, Diaz and Middleholf"

48.03" x 37.40"

"Nicolas Cage, Bank of Celebration Parmount"

45.66" x 33.85"

"Bayer - Pfizer"

19.68" x 34.49"

 

"Robert de Niro - Martina Colombari"

28.75 x 44"