The book
Roberto Tonelli, diSEGNOinSEGNO
1992-2002
That his vocation was the art, it was immediately clear: he listened to its call since very young, although initially he mistook the road to get to it. In fact Roberto Tonelli, from Bologna but Piacentinian of adoption, began painting, until the age of eighteen years, encouraged by an uncle who used to meet the artists of the Fifties.
(...)In a memorable bonfire he burnt in the fireplace all his paintings, even the chimney got fire.
Closed every relationship with the art, he worked in the social services until November '92, when he accompanied a friend who wanted to enroll itself into the graphic course on the local Art Institute Gazzola. The friend did not enroll itself, Tonelli did. (...)
(featured from the introduction by Bruna Milani)
On the cover: "Pensarsi" (to think
to oneself), 2000, in memoriam of Albin Brunovsky
Etching on zinc, 355x260 mm (detail)
Title: diSEGNOinSEGNO, 1992-2002
Author: Roberto Tonelli
with texts by Bruna Milani and Stefano Raffo
Printed by Tipografia Cassola of Piacenza in October 2003
54 pp.
39 ill. b/n
Roberto Tonelli's workshop is in via Garibaldi 65, Piacenza, Italia
