Nicola Zamboni Explained

Birth Date:10 May 1943
Birth Place:Bologna
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Nicola Zamboni (10 May 1943 – 17 January 2023)[1] was an Italian sculptor.

Life

Zamboni was born in Bologna and he was student and assistant of Quinto Ghermandi.[2] After retiring from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in his third year, he went to England in 1968 as a guest of Henry Moore. In 1975 he began teaching at the Academy in Bologna, and from 1997 to 2004 he taught sculpture at the Brera Academy of Arts in Milan, [3] where he met Sara Bolzani who became his student and partner.[4]

Zamboni lived in Sala Bolognese in a big farmhouse converted into a studio residence, under the banks of the Samoggia river.

The sculptor portrayed the human figure with realistic forms, with a careful search for detail and life-size,[5] in large choral works that require the use of various modelling techniques; these sculptures are made of various materials including ceramics,[6] cement, stone,[7] wood, copper.

He created the large monument in Marzabotto in 1975 in front of the town hall,[8] as well as several monuments commemorating the Bologna massacre in various Italian cities.[9] He also created a small garden of medieval inspiration with allegorical statues in one of the courts of the Cavedone PEEP.

References

  1. News: Mignardi . Gabriele . 2023-01-17 . Nicola Zamboni è morto, addio al maestro della materia . . Bologna . it.
  2. Book: Campanini, Graziano . Di pieve in pieve: paesi e città del Bolognese fra il Samoggia e il Reno . Romano . Luciano . FMR . 2004 . 9788821606854 . 34.
  3. Web site: Biografia Nicola Zamboni .
  4. Web site: A tu per tu con l'autore: Sara Bolzani . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160828065107/http://www.librerie.coop.it/consigli-dei-librai/a-tu-per-tu-con-lautore-sara-bolzani.jspurl?IdC=3232&IdS=3232&tipo_cliccato=0&tipo_padre=0&nav=1&id_prodotto=743669&css= . 28 August 2016 . 5 September 2016.
  5. Book: Crous, Joan . Il grande libro della scultura . Bubbico . Giovanna . Giunti Editore . 2002 . 978-88-440-2455-0 . 40–41.
  6. Book: Ceramica. Manuale completo . 2004 . Giunti Editore . 978-88-440-2952-4 . 119–.
  7. Book: Di pieve in pieve: paesi e città del Bolognese fra il Samoggia e il Reno . 2004 . FMR . 9788821606854 . 41.
  8. Book: Galmozzi, Luciano . Monumenti alla libertà: antifascismo, resistenza e pace nei monumenti italiani dal 1945 al 1985 . La Pietra . 1986 . 152.
  9. Book: Venturoli, Cinzia . Stragi fra memoria e storia: Piazza Fontana, Piazza della Loggia, la stazione di Bologna. Dal discorso pubblico all'elaborazione didattica . Libreria Bonomo . 2007 . 9788860710109 . 122.

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