| A painter and an illustrator, Aroldo Bonzagni was born in Cento. He moved to Milan in 1905, attending the Accademia di Brera. In Milan Bonzagni became friend with Umberto Boccioni and with Carlo Carrà and signed the first Futurist manifesto in 1910. An original and very independent artist, Aroldo Bonzagni had an extremely critical personal opinion about the elegant society of the times; he refined his illustrative style at musical evenings at the Theatre of the Scala and his encounters with the élite at the San Siro racecourse. Bonzagni designed caricatures for the socialist daily paper 'L'Avanti' and exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 1912 and 1914. Bonzagni died in 1918 after catching the so-called 'Spanish flu' while he was preparing a large exhibition for the Pesaro Gallery in Milan. |
