Scipione (Gino Bonichi)

Scipione (* February 25, 1904 as Gino Bonichi in Macerata, † November 9, 1933 in Arco, Trento) was an Italian painter and writer.

Life

Scipione moved to Rome in 1909. In 1919, he suffered a pulmonary disease that forced him from 1924 to sanatorium stays.

Also in 1924 Scipione had his first encounter with the painter Mario Mafai with whom he now permanently worked. Scipione studied with Mafai in Aktklasse at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. 1925 both had to leave school after a dispute with its principal. In 1928 Scipione together with Mafai and Renato Marino Mazzacurati the Scuola Romana ( " Roman School ", also known as Scuola di via Cavour )

He died at the age of only 29 years of tuberculosis.

Scuola Romana

As a forerunner of the Roman school, among other painters such as El Greco and Marc Chagall and other artists, such as German and French Expressionists apply. The artists of the Roman school surrealist and expressionist use expressions.

The Scuola Romana turns against the conservative movement of the Novecento. The Novecento, they criticize conservatism, fascist tendencies and the inclination to Neoromantismus.

Creation

The images Scipiones are characterized in part by " powerful nervousness " with shining colors. His paintings of the Italian capital Rome are characterized by gloom with oppressive shaping.

Scipione also worked as an illustrator, writer and poet.

His works are of international relevance, and were shown eg at the documenta 1 in 1955 in Kassel and at the documenta III (1964).

Works

• Studio per il Cardinale Decano. Various media on paper, 1929
• Étude pour Gli uomini che si voltano. Oil on canvas, 1930
• Poetry e prose. ( = Parole di Charter 16), ed. Brunella Antomarini. Ed. Charter, Milan 2001, ISBN 88-8158-329-1