Who I am ?

My name is Isabella Bruno. I was born in Salerno (Italy) but I live in Turin, the town where I work. I was born with a keenness for art, especially for painting, which gradually developed over the years, almost unbeknown to me. Eventually I could no longer ignore that desire, and I devoted myself to painting with great passion and dedication, at times yet with some torment as well.

My artistic training took place by way of private classes in freehand drawing, oil painting and watercolour. This beginning allowed me to try my own different techniques and those materials that could best express my artistic flair.

I enrolled at the University of Turin, with a major in Cultural Heritage Science, to fulfil my longing for knowledge of all that concerns the art world.

My interests led me to cooperate with magazines and internet portals such as mondimedievali.net or KultArt Magazine, reviewing artistic places for the “Luoghi d'Arte - Salvaguardia dei Popoli e dei Linguaggi” column.

My biggest dream? To make a living as an artist of course! Until then, I am happy to paint in all my free time. My painting style - which evolved during recent years in order to match my changing forms of expression - started with the specific need to communicate my emotions by the use of unnatural and aggressive colours. I've been often inspired by the 20^th century French artistic movement called Fauves, and I was deeply influenced by the German expressionists.

The course of my personal artistic research has accompanied me and motivated me during the years, remaining always the primary source that led me to begin new work; techniques and materials are, therefore, only the tools that allowed me to share all my emotions.

Reviews

The artist's chromatic mixture challenges the perception of the reality, embellishing it thanks to its planned outline. It is concerned with the inner energy which can be detected on every canvas, considering that it carries with it all the painter's emotional appeal. Isabella Bruno uncovers new interpretative keys, offering a valuable and fulfilling artistic fruition.

D. Marasà (Boè Magazine, V Year, May-June 2008)

The painter screaming colour is an evident expression of her inner artistic path, whose energy is a clear symbol of that anarchy of contrasts, a mirror of personal chromatic scenery otherwise inexpressible.
The painter art subjects become individual voices, wherein we can detect signs of the German expressionism, symbols of a harmonic strength which, coming from the chaos, evolves into clear images. Thus, we can inherently justify the “red trees” or “blue hills” of a landscape which seem surreal only to a general observer, but it is so vivid and present in the constituent universe of her painting. The thematic combinations of the still-life paintings are incisive in the same manner; here the careful and precise space knowledge is the predominant characteristic, with counterpoint hints which becomes lyric voices.

L. Motta

... the drawing contains and orients the colours, insomuch as objects shape is only a pretext for painting. The use of a pasty oil technique in her canvas fragments into coloured tesseras of different shape, as if they took part of an oriental mosaic, in the image of a basilica; or it inflames the canvas with the red reflections of an alley, contrasting with the blue colour of the shadow area.
The painter breaks up images or joins them in a vortex of coloured spreading, carrying on the expressivity research proper of the “spiritual” painting of the past century. Colour like light, energy and inner scream, all for a hard landing towards an evolution course, where every accomplishment matches with a new beginning.

C. Girard

Isabella Bruno's paintings do not go unnoticed; they express and convey the strength and power of the emotions.
Her particular way of spreading the colour (she gives volume and depth to the subject) and the shade choice characterises her style. Her use of the space is extremely relevant and interesting.
Coloured pigments, shades, spatulas, brushes and that use of the space so noteworthy collaborate in rendering pleasantly enjoyable the painter works. I was so impressed by Isabella Bruno paintings, her use of colours like azure-blue, purple, orange and green so well fixed, that, right from the start, I couldn't help thinking about David Alfaro Siqueiros' works.

Carmen Basile (KultArt Magazine)

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Personal Exhibitions List

“Corpi involontari in anime dense”
From 2 to 11 April 2009 - Turin - Confraternita degli Artisti
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“Fun... Aperiparty”
12 February 2009 - Turin - Spazio
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“Café Paris”
April 2008 - Torino - Café Paris

“Il Colore Gridato”
From 8 to 31 December 2007 - Turin - MILLEVOLTI Bookshop
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“Arte e Moda”
From 19 to 30 October 2006 - Turin - Biko's

Collective

Collettive Exhibitions List

“Collettiva La Morra”
From 1 to 31 January 2010 - La Morra(CN) - Cantina Comunale di La Morra
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“Rassegna Diritti-Integrati”
21 and 22 June 2009 - Turin - Associazione Onda Urbana Onlus
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“167 Esposizione delle Arti Figurative”
April 2009 - Turin - Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti

“Internazionale Italia Arte 2009”
From 25 March to 6 April 2009 - Turin - Villa Gualino
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“166 Esposizione delle Arti Figurative”
From 28 March to 27 April 2008 - Turin - Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti

“Les Couleurs de l'Italie”
From 1 to 15 September 2007 - Paris - Galerie d'Art Espace Arsinoé
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“EAT - Nutrirsi d'Arte”
From 20 March to 1 April 2007 - Turin - Associazione Italian Art in the World-Onlus
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“Artinfiore”
24 September 2006 - Villastellone (TO) - Concorso d'Arte pittore Aldo Assom

“Terre Calde”
From 1 to 8 August 2006 - S. Margherita Ligure (GE) - Galleria d'Arte Il Sorpasso

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