About the artist:

Gianni Bertini born on 1922 in Pisa, Italy. Arte Nucleare Term applied to a style of Italian painting prevalent in the 1950s. The Movimento Nucleare was founded in 1951 by ENRICO BAJ and Sergio Dangelo (b 1931), with Gianni Bertini (b 1922), to promote a gestural, fantastical style of avant-garde art. In their first manifesto (1952) the artists introduced the idea of ‘nuclear painting’ and made it clear that they were striving for a relevant representation of post-War man and his precarious environment. Arte nucleare stood in opposition to the powers unleashed in the atomic age and expressed the general fear of imminent and uncontrollable damage from nuclear physics. The artists also reacted against the pictorial disciplines of De Stijl and all forms of geometric abstraction, pursuing instead the unpredictable effects of Surrealist automatism. This included gestural experiments similar to action painting and Tachism. Various Arte nucleare artists, including Gianni Dova, helped produce the magazine Phases in the mid-1950s. In 1955 Baj and other Arte nucleare artists joined the Mouvement International pour une Bauhaus Imaginiste (MIBI), founded by Asger Jorn. A further manifesto was released by the Arte nucleare artists in January 1959. This warned against the negative application of new technology and also found possibilities of a positive, aesthetic development from some aspects of atomic fission. Although a few Arte nucleare exhibitions were held, the movement did not gain the currency enjoyed by its rival, Art informel, and by the early 1960s had faded from the international arena. Solo and Group exhibitions (selected) 2007 Forte Belvedere Firenze Villa Mazzotti Chiari Palazzo Reale Milano Spazio Annunciata Milano 2006 Galleria Colossi Arte Contemporanea, Chiari (Bs) Galleria Spazia Bologna Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna Gallarate Museo Archeologico Statale Spoleto 2005 Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milano Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena Palazzo D'Accursio Bologna Bel Art Gallery Milano 2004 Villa Croce Museo dArte Contemporanea, Genova Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milano 2003 Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milano 2000 Centro d'arte spaziotempo, Firenze 1999 Galerie de l'europe, Paris Libreria Les Argonautes, Paris 1998 Quadreria (Bertini-Rotella), Lecco Galleria del Naviglio, Milano 1997 Libreria-galleria Derbylius (Arte fiera Bologna) 1996 Galleria San Michele, Brescia 1994 Galleria Annunciata Fiera, Bologna Galleria Arcadia Nuova, Milano 1993 Galleria Annunciata fiera, Bologna Gallerie Thorigny, Fiac Parigi e Fiera Francoforte Le Mec Art, fiac Parigi 1992 Galleria Annunciata fiera, Bologna e l'arco, Madrid Dorothea Keeser galery, Hambourg Galleria Centro Arte, Milano Galleria Elleni, Bergano Galleria Lanza, Verbania, Intra 1991 Galleria Annunciata, Fiera Milano Galleria Vinciana, Milano Free Art Torino Galerie la Pochede, Parigi Galerie Thorigny, Parigi Galleria Annunciata, Cycle A. Artaud fiac Parigi 1990 Galleria Annunciata, Milano Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand Galerie la Pochade, Salon de Mars-Paris Galleria il Traghetto, Venezia Studio bellora, Milano Galleria il Traghetto, Venezia Studio Bellora, Milano Galleria Cesarea, Genova Works in public collections: Galerie Seine 51, Parigi, Francia Galleria Bergamo, Bergamo-Italia Galleria Colossi Arte Contemporanea, Chiari (Bs)-Italia Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, Firenze-Italia Spazio Annunciata, Milano-Italia Galleria Artestudio, Milano-Italia Studio Gariboldi, Milano-Italia Galleria Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana (Sp)-Italia Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg-Danimarca LAAC - Lieu d'Art et Action Contemporaine de Dunkerque, Dunkerque-Francia FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Parigi-Francia Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Parigi-Francia Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach-Germania Stockolm museum- Sweden Liegi museum - Belgium Buenos Aires museum- Argentina Oslo museum- Norwey Rome - museum Turin -museum