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He was born in Milan.

Autodidact, he has been exposing his works in collective exhibitions and art fairs since 1990, both in Italy (Milan, Rome, Vicenza, Ancona, Padova, Bologna, Bergamo, Lodi) and abroad (Miami, Geneva, Nizza).

Among his personal painting exhibitions those of Turin, Albisola, Chiavari, Piacenza, Bologna, Moncalieri in Italy and of Geneva and Belo Horizonte (Brazil) are to be mentioned.

Two of his works of art are exposed in Lodi , at Teatro alle Vigne and at the Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra; another is exposed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Castell'Arquato; another in a private collection of Lodi Province.

Atelier:

Italia: San Martino in strada (LO) | Brasil: Belo Horizonte (MG)

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::: Boletti's language::: (PIERRE SANTOS - Belo Horizonte 1999)

Member of ABCA and AICA

What a world is that, inviting, esoteric, unreal, where Guido Boletti's uncommon language takes us ? And in such a language where does painting become music, and music poetry ? What a fancy is that, keeping us in suspense as if taking a dare ?
That's the art of a young Italian, born not far from the Alps, mature in the expression, musician before painter, a poet now, looking at the world as a dreamer, feeling it as an artist. That is the key to his fantastic universe, full of symbols, which, if decoded, could tell us of mysterious melodies we couldn't but hear in ecstasy, and of unusual rhythms soothing tempers and showing the way.
That's the way his language proceeds : on the field, covered just with coloured combinations, rhythmic cells develop, spontaneously, as if building a sort of poetic writing drawn from his own experience, from atavic cultural reminiscences as well as from projections of a desired future.
There present, past and future mix like notes on an infinite stave, calling for adventure.
Let's go then.

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:::Guido Boletti's colors and music::: ( GIAMPIERO BRUNELLI - 2004)

In Guido Boletti's paintings marks and colours merge as if in a party of sounds and light.
Kandinsky and Mirò passed by leaving spots of their immortal genius this young artist collected and reinterpreted with autonomous poetry : on the canvas dream, reality and play run one after the other, as (if) in musical sequences, breaking down the wall of the dimensional limits of substance and space-time.
And no wonder music is the starting point of Boletti's artistic itinerary. Jazz has been, in particular, the device allowing his passage to painting (it's always present, however, in the rhythm of all his works of art), thus guaranteeing that universal communicability only music can give. This inevitably reminds us of Kandinsky as well as of the Blaue Reiter current : the abstract is the best and most concrete attempt for painting to approach music.
"Music is abstraction" the painter says "but everybody takes it for granted while painting is much more difficult to be understood. Painting was born as a figurative art; that's perhaps why it's more difficult for the observer to get deeply in touch with the abstract.".
"Art" Boletti goes on "is a form of non-verbal communication as is a good book or a figurative painting. My first aim is to catch the observer's eye, who, I'm sure, carrying on looking at something he can't completely understand, will at last succeed in detecting a message or a meaning far beyond that ensemble of forms and figures with no correspondence in the real world".
Guido Boletti considers himself a real citizen of the world. He is often in Brazil, his second country, with his Brazilian wife and their two wonderful daughters. He himself says "In Brazil I feel at home. You can breathe a completely different air there and every time I come back to Italy I have a new source of vital energy to turn into my paintings.

::: The italian surrealism of Guido Boletti::: ( MORGAN DA MOTTA - 1999)

Journalist and Art Critic, Member of Brasilian Association and International Association of Art Critics ( ABCA-AICA)

Guido Boletti, an artist from Milan, rooted now in Belo Horizonte, presents his latest artistic production at PIC-Cidade gallery. His acrylics are full of surrealist echoes, such as the series of the works in blue : symbols and marks in curves, lines, curves again. Finally lines : a metaphor for life.
Moreover, his painting builds up spontaneously, one stroke after another, colours and sizes just planned. His greatest references send back to the Italian avant-garde and to the Neo-Expressionism of the 80s. As per hot colours and sensuality, we can say he shares in the Italian Avant-garde, in tropical sauce .
There exists a tension in his painting, causing a break in the elaboration and resulting in unexpected events. Thus Boletti's painting exists in polarity : organic/inorganic, rational/irrational, impulse/reflection. That's where he can meet permanent figures of his painting as well as of his way.