Carlo Bazzoni was born in 1958 in a small hamlet in Valtellina, where he grew up surrounded by the stone and lime walls of mountain houses — materials that would become, decades later, the heart of his pictorial research. A graduate of the Brera Academy in 1982, he lives and works between Milan and Sondrio.
After an initial trajectory linked to figuration and engraving, from the late 1990s he progressively abandoned figurative language to devote himself to materic painting. His work focuses on the stratification of humble materials — lime, sand, gypsum, mineral pigments — applied in successive layers and then partially excavated, in a constant dialogue between construction and subtraction.
Bazzoni's works evoke fragments of ancient walls, flaking plaster, surfaces worn by time. Yet they are not imitation: they are autonomous creations that seek an equilibrium between form and matter, between silence and memory.
He exhibits regularly in Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland. His works are part of private collections in Europe and the United States.
I do not represent a wall. I construct a fragment of time.