Vasco Bendini (27 February 1922 – 31 January 2015) was an Italian informalist painter.

Life and career

Born in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

, Bendini studied at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts, under

Giorgio Morandi Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bo ...

and Virgilio Guidi. In 1956 he was invited to show his work at the 27th edition of the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

. This was followed by two more participations, each time with a solo presentation of his work, in 1964 and 1972. After a period close to

informalism Informalism or Art Informel is a pictorial movement from the 1943–1950s, that includes all the abstract and gestural tendencies that developed in France and the rest of Europe during the World War II, similar to American abstract expression ...

, especially to the "last naturalism" theorized by , Bendini expanded his visual language to other forms, including

Neo-Dada Neo-Dada was a movement with audio, visual and literary manifestations that had similarities in method or intent with earlier Dada artwork. It sought to close the gap between art and daily life, and was a combination of playfulness, iconoclasm, a ...

, Arte Povera and conceptual phases. In the late 1970s he eventually re-embraced an Informalist style in his paintings.Carlo Pirovano (cured by). "Bendini, Vasco" in ''La pittura in Italia : Il Novecento : 1945-1990, vol. 2''. Milano, Electa, 1993. .

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* 1922 births 2015 deaths Painters from Bologna 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male painters Italian contemporary artists 21st-century Italian painters 21st-century Italian male artists Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna alumni {{Italy-painter-stub