Rodolfo Bersani - Biography 

Artistic creativity is unpredictable, it goes through the life of many performers in various ways: flashes, periods or even cycles. As it has happened and is still happening to Rodolfo Bersani of Cortemaggiore (Piacenza), painter and restorer, for decades among the key players in the Piacenza artistic milieu, and beyond. In his long career. in fact, he went through various phases, which we sum up: the Realism and Hyperrealism of his early days were followed by a long phase in which he revisited mythological themes. In the latter arena Bersani embodied a collective dream long appreciated by the pubblic and critics, because myhtology has always fascinated. Above all, he captured the monumentality of those subjects, with great intuition he identified and translated on canvas the magical enchantment of mythology, almost  always connected to historical and literary echoes. But for every artist, tackling reality is essential, one need to adapt, get up-to-date, experiment with new shapes. The fact is that Bersani recently left the mythical dimension behind to move on to new but equally demanding topics. But linked to a completely different facet, relating to a machinist epos, almost as if mythology had generated, transformed, almost modernised into another and very current configuration. As is actually the case with "Techno-metaphysics", hes latest invention-concept, which is neither a movement nor a trend, but simply a pondered conviction of whimsical Bersani.