Ugo Bongarzoni   

 

He was born in Viterbo (Italy) and graduated at the public scientific high school with the highest grades. He studied Electronic Engineering at "La Sapienza" University of Rome. In a sleepless night, in his hometown, during the period of his father's death, he creates his first painting, a thunderstorm in a rural landscape, in black and white, using his sister's colors and brushes. From that moment he embarks on a self-taught path that he will never leave.

His expression is mainly figurative and he uses different media, preferring a three-dimensional representation.

Convinced about the cultural, communicative and social function of  arts, he creates, in the summer of 2012, during the creation of the artwork  "The Flight of Daedalus and Icarus" the artistic thought called "Crypticism" (analytical, multi-level, a-stilistic). The material period, begun in 2003 with the oil painting Medusa (completed only in 2011), continues with the acrylic painting where the interest for the bas-relief naturally evolves into the one of three-dimensional shapes and into an innovative personal technique baptized, in 2019 , as "Pittoscultura".

In 2018 he created the "Enrico Zarletti" Painting and Sculpture Award for professional artists, and the Hermes UB and Efesto UB trophies for organizational merits in the artistic field, then the Euterpe UB and Vulcano UB trophies for music and artistic craftsmanship.

Extremely slow in execution, he always likes to modify his own works, never considering them completed and, because of this fact, they almost never correspond, in particular, to all the images published in art catalogs.

He uses to hide more signatures in each of his works, one of them is always biological.

He loves to write novels and short stories about art and science fiction . He is an Art Critic and Curator.