Emilio Giuseppe Dossena

At the Scuola del Castello he won a prize for his sculpture works (a trip to Venice), but his attraction toward color made him choose painting as the medium of artistic communication.

Dorothy Hall, art critic of NY Park East magazine, stated: "These are exuberant works in rich, assertive color, dealing with varied subject matter, both abstract and representational.

The art critic Mario Portalupi affirmed: “In truth, his painting process is born out of impressions and the subsequent emotions, which transform reality and regulate the chromatic entities on the canvas…”[8] His friend Enzo Lepore, a renowned opera singer, stated: “Dossena…excels for the luminous harmony of the chromatic contrasts and he distinguishes himself for the expressive purity of his vigorous and original style… His paintings are fresh, palpitating, and rich with a vast conception and spirituality, in a frame of radiant and intensive colors…”[9] Among the many honors he received, in 1985 Dossena was awarded the prestigious Ambrogino d’Oro per l’Arte from the City of Milan, and in 1989 a ceramic tile with his signature is placed in the famous Muretto di Alassio.

In the last years of his life, the artist, ill and unable to paint, devoted himself to poetry, receiving numerous awards and appearing in a variety of literary anthologies.

The exhibit at the Trask Gallery of the National Arts Club of New York, organized in 1998 by the magazine L'Idea of Brooklyn in his memory, beat all the participation records and it was the first one for an Italian artist in such an institution.