source: Atelier Adriano e Michele

Umberto Bergamaschi (Milano, 1954) has been attending the Adriano e Michele painting atelier (San Colombano’s psychiatric hospital, near Milano) since its creation in 1996. His work is characterized by the habit of including the subject of the composition inside a closed and circular shape, where elegantly stylized figures, not without some fragility, acquire the timeless essentially of an effigy. The intention to abstract and marginalize reality elements inside a circle reflects the trend of the painter to find shelter in a silent universe and in a reassuring and protective place.

Main exhibitions
Art en Marge, Brussels  (B) 2000
Outsider Art in Italia, Finarte-Semenzato, Milano 2003
Acrobazie, atelier San Colombano al Lambro, 2003
Visions singulières, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (B) 2005
Un’ arte senza precedenti, UniCredit Private Banking, Arezzo, 2006
Acrobazie 2, atelier San Colombano al Lambro, 2006
Io è un altro – Je est un autre, Palais Ducal, Lucca, 2007
Acrobazie 3, atelier San Colombano al Lambro, 2007