Angelo Tassi

"...Always allude, never state explicitly: this is the particular quality Angelo Tassi would never give up," is how the life of this great twentieth-century painter is introduced on his personal website. Angelo Tassi (Bologna, 1937 - 2024) was a painter born for art, supported from childhood by a family that, in the difficult postwar years, recognised and nurtured his talent. After gaining his Maturità Artistica, he trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, where he also deepened his studies in graphic arts, lithography and engraving, attending important masters, including Morandi, and embarking early on an independent professional path. A cultured and rigorous artist, he exhibited consistently in Italy and abroad, managing to live entirely from his painting. His works are part of prestigious public and museum collections, including the Galleria d'Arte Moderna del Vaticano, museums in the United States and major Italian institutions. In 1989 he received the Sigillo dell'Alma Mater Studiorum of the University of Bologna, followed by recognitions such as the Nettuno d'Oro and the Carlino d'Oro. His painting is founded on allusion and the unsaid: suspended female figures, known as Haiku, monumental and solitary cardinals, Pulcinella never fully revealed, landscapes and architecture charged with silence. A coherent and profound language, remarkably faithful to itself from his beginnings to his maturity, a testament to a life entirely dedicated to painting.