Biography

Lazzaro (i.e. Giuseppe Fornoni) was born in Bergamo in the XX century; he is a hard character to define.
Completely self-taught, he started studying the Man (representation of his image) with valuable works executed by various techniques, in which the observer sees the man "suffering" pervaded, or better "pierced" by God's agels of justice's darts. This period's works are deliberately autobiographical and introspective, in which the artist expresses his inner struggle, "the eternal dualism of struggle against the dark". The colours are dark, sometimes even bloody, recalling to the neo-gothic religious representations. The artist is a man who is always walking on, that can stop being himself; in this catharsis and personal resurrection he called himself "Lazzaro".
His character of eternal seeker leads him to explore colours that expouse well with the black and white of the canvases, focusing now on the surrounding reality, calling back to life, in his paintings, the fatigue and sweat of his "men at work" . Close to the american expressionist neorealism, he provides the observer a "crowd" of characters always in motion as if to symbolize the frenetic habits that characterize this millennium.
At this very moment in which man has no time to stop and reflect, to think to himself, it is necessary to the artist to stop the "tiny daily gestures of the common man" (now ordinary) and give them a particular meaning on his canvases, which express the real essence of life. It is the materialization of many "fleeting moments" that belong to each of us in the great puzzle of existence.
His paintings are therefore primarily the story of a soul passing from sadness to joy, from darkness to light, that wants its colours to sing aloud.