Walter Bortolossi born in Basilea in 1961. Lives and works in Colugna (UD).
In his works everything coexists with everything, in a kind of inexhaustible jam, contamination, huge visual copulation. He fills his canvas with images taken from old treaties on mechanics, physiology, medicine, moral, arts, crafts, mixing them together with absolute self-assurance into a mass-media universe: with televisions, personal computers….on Bortolossi’s canvas we face an “apparent continuity”, where different categories of space and time (near/far, past/present) seem to be balanced or eliminated: as a matter of fact, they keep on challenging the observer (Meneghelli).
Mostre personali recenti
2007
It isn’t only Pop (but i like it), galleria Egbert Baquè, Berlino (Germania)2003
Walter Bortolossi 1988 – 2003, Chiesa di S.Antonio Abate, Udine2002
Considerazioni inattuali, galleria Mondo Bizzarro, Bologna2000
Galleria La Giarina, VeronaMostre collettive recenti
2007
Sovereign European Art Prize 2006 – 2007, Club Row (Rochelle School Buildings), Bonhams, London (GB)2005
Bologna Flash Art Show , galleria La Giarina , Hotel Sofitel, Bologna2004
I crimini dell’amore – Da Crepax all’Ultrapop, galleria l’Ariete, Bologna2003
The Italian connection: selected works from Mondo Bizzarro Gallery - Baldazzini, Bortolossi, Dast, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)Principali mostre personali
2007
It isn’t only Pop (but i like it), galleria Egbert Baquè, Berlino (Germania)2005
Inside the exhibition “Ibridamens”, Centro Europeo di Arti e Comunicazioni Contemporanee “Luciano Ceschia”, Tarcento, Udine2003
Hicetnunc, ex-Essiccatoio Bozzoli, San Vito al Tagliamento, Pordenone2002
Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Bologna2000
Galleria La Giarina, Verona1999
Parco Foundation, Casier (Treviso)1998
Atelier Modarte, Milano1997
Artesegno gallery, Udine1995
Il campo delle fragole gallery, Bologna1994
VSV gallery, Torino1992
Paolo Majorana gallery, Brescia1991
VSV gallery,TorinoPrincipali mostre collettive
2007
Sovereign European Art Prize 2006 – 2007, Club Row (Rochelle School Buildings), Bonhams, London (GB)2006
Palinsesti (Sismologie), curated by Alessandro Del Puppo, Antico Ospedale dei Battuti, S. Vito al Tagliamento (PN)2005
Bologna Flash Art Show, galleria La Giarina, Hotel Sofitel, Bologna2004
I crimini dell’amore – Da Crepax all’Ultrapop, galleria l’Ariete, Bologna2003
The Italian connection: selected works from Mondo Bizzarro Gallery - Baldazzini, Bortolossi, DastLa Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)2002
Tra il reale e il virtuale, galleria 3g arte contemporanea, Udine2001
Le Arti a Udine nel '900, Modern Art Gallery Udine2000
Zone d'arte, galleria Civica Klagenfurt (Austria)1999
Nuove acquisizioni, galleria d’Arte Moderna, Udine1998
Simbolica – Nel futuro della pittura, curated by Edoardo Di Mauro, Docks Dora, Torino1997
Versus III, ex-lanificio Bona, Carignano (TO)1996
1° Premio Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (PG)1995
Achtung auf den zug, curated by Maria Campitelli, Museo Ferroviario, Staz. Campo Marzio, Trieste1994
Stile libero , curated by Edoardo Di Mauro, galleria 4,5 x 4,5, Parma1993
Eclettismo – La pittura parte Ia, Sala delle Colonne, Torino