Aroldo Bonzagni, un artista antagonista. Pittore, illustratore, cartellonista e caricaturista

Landed in Milan from his native Cento and came into contact with the fledgling group of futurists, Aroldo Bonzagni (Cento, 1887 – Milano, 1918) had an artistic parable of a decade and developed a realistexpressionist language. To painting and drawing he accompanied caricature, illustration and billboards. It was especially in the latter that he manifested its political sentiment, reinforced by the presentation of the works in some shop windows of via Dante with frequent intervention of censorship. Many of his satirical billboards were indeed dedicated to chronicle news (Evictions in Via Palestrina, 1909) and to domestic and foreign politics, from the war of Libya to suffragette claims, to the interventionist campaign at the beginning of the first world war. However a political reading emerges also in his other themes: work and industry in the growing metropolis, appointments mondani of milanese bourgeoisie and popular views of suburbs, theater of life of the poor and marginalized (Waste of society, 1918).