Have a look at a magnificent piece of art from our student Bruno Gorgone. His painting pertains to the sphere of Italian Abstraction. Since the early 'Eighties he has been actively interested in visual arts.After obtaining his degree in Architecture at Genoa University, he moves to Venice where he extends his experience through various forms of creative expression, with particular attention to Murano glass. He is also interested in design. He is in contact with artists, writers and poets, collaborating with them in the realisation of cultural events. Since 1992 he has belonged to the Group of Venice Architect Artists, with whom he participates in international exhibitions.As from the late 'Nineties his research has been characterised by an in-depth study of the sign/colour relationship and by an evolution towards a personal painting of patterns. In the same period, the French critic Pierre Restany, a Nouveau Réalisme theorist, becomes interested in his work and experiments in the use of new media.He organises many personal exhibitions, takes part in national and international shows and, while mainly concentrating his research on painting, he realizes ephemeral interventions linked principally with the theme of the "Garden Myth" and installations in the sphere of the works/environment relationship. He lives and works in Venice and Spotorno.Here is a critic's view of Bruno's work:Gorgone has an architect's formation, his approach to art is strongly influenced by project planning, meaning the possibility to adopt and apply a method of composition which can be used over and over again, modifying the formal end-products obtainable by means of variations. This is, primarily, the core of Gorgone's art: a dimension which is not strictly speaking conceptual but is nevertheless connected with the preponderance of the idea, of the mental process, as well as with the organization of a practical mechanism allowing for its materialization in a fully developed artistic fact; it thereby becomes, from a formal point of view, an independent, totally self-sufficient universe, with no hint of anything untried or undeveloped.For Gorgone the actuation phase is a fundamentally important experience, vital and invigorating, as if forms and colours, combined in infinite textures were, paraphrasing a famous quotation by Arp, concrétions naturelles, direct emanations of the spirit of nature, which must necessarily pass through the mind of the artist, but also through his hand, and the feelings that this passing produces. For Gorgone the act of painting is still emotion, material contact, intimate creative pleasure feeding on itself, changeable like the changeability of the expressive variations experimented with, such as the computer could only partly satisfy. Nevertheless, the fairest expression of the craft element can be found in the works that Gorgone realizes on glass - beautiful, deserving ever more ambitious and varied applications - even their titles are metaphors of formal universes prospected by art, unlike those of ordinary reality, indeed sometimes opposing them. These creations on glass would not be appreciated in their intimate urgency if one ever thought that Gorgone's direct intervention were not decisive in their achievement.Vittorio SgarbiIf you want to find out more about Bruno Gorgone and his work, then make sure and visit his website - BrunoGorgone.com
