Figura maschile (2019) Sculpture by Alessio Brugnoli

I live and work in Padua and like other contemporary artists I trained outside the educational institution. In the 70s, while I was already working, I embarked on my artistic journey by attending the "International School of Graphics" in Venice, where I learned chalcographic techniques. Subsequently I experimented with the watercolor technique and other techniques on paper. Since the beginning of the 1990s I began to draw extensive inspiration from Italian abstract painting and subsequently from the artistic currents of American Abstractionism. From here I began to experiment with the use of industrial and recycled materials such as cement, plaster, vinyl glues, jute, acrylic colors and papers. These experiences were the basis for organizing artistic workshops for children and adults over time, combining improvisation, fascination with materials and creativity. In my most recent works, I have favored the themes of "improvisation" and "symbolic" contents in art, through continually evolving personal and poetic research.

I am an artist living and working in Padua, an historical town in North-East Italy. Like many other artists of the 20th century, I got an informal education outside the art schools. In the 70s,  besides working, I started my artistic path in Venice, attending the International School of Graphics, where I learned the major chalkographic techniques. Then, I experimented watercolor and additional painting techniques on paper. From the beginning of 90s I started to get inspiration from the Italian and the US Abstract art movements. Upon that period I was deeply attracted by the use of industrial and recycled materials such as concrete, chalk, vinylic glues, juta, acrylic colours, papers. Such experience has been the basis for developing children and adult art workshops, where creativity, passion for unusual materials and spirit of invention were combined together. In the most recent period, I privileged art themes such as “improvisation” and “symbolism”, that represent the ongoing path of my present artistic research.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1953
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists