Agostino Bonalumi * (Vimercate/Monza 1935-2013) Rosso, 1978, signed and dated on the reverse, vynil tempera and shaped canvas, 97 x 130 cm, in plexiglass case This work is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist Provenance: European Private Collection Literature: Agostino Bonalumi, catalogue of the exhibition held at Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt 2003, p. 214 Arte no. 454, Cairo Editore June 2011 (inscribed on the reverse) F. Bonalumi, M. Meneguzzo, Agostino Bonalumi. Catalogo Ragionato, Skira (ed.), Milan 2015, vol. II, p.500, no. 751 with ill. [...] Since all painters used canvas, I used it too. The point for me was not to abandon the canvas but what to do with the canvas. To make the work with the canvas and not on the canvas, which is to make painting by going beyond painting. In my works, the canvas is one of the elements of the work as it constitutes it together with other elements such as structure and colour. Agostino Bonalumi, Extract from an article published in 'Ars', year VI, no. 7-8 (July-August 2002