BORN
Bologna, Italy, 1/7/42
BIOGRAPHY
1966-67 - Exhibited in Bologna and Venice.
Travelled mid to late 60' through Europe, Middle East and Asia.
Arrived in Australia in 1970. Lived in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
Bruno Pasqualini started his career in Italy, travelled half way around the world in the sixties and settled in Australia in the seventies. His painterly work of pure abstraction is full on and uncompromising, while retaining the colourist’s concern with poetic statements within the realm of personal vision. A keen practitioner of the photographic medium and a teacher of media as well as art, Bruno’s awareness and interactive relationship with technology is percolated through the sensitivity of the painter’s palette.
The exploration of the harmonies between Pasqualini’s broad experiences in Europe and Asia and Australia , his feeling for city and country, spirituality and earth, the impact of his relationships with friends and lovers, are pulled into the work where he explored them initially with full Dionysian vigour and flair. At times, one opposition or the other is set free to explore its own theme and myth.
Energetic paintings burning with visual excitement The Dove and Hearts & Flowers are left unrestrained and then controlling order adds balance within a single painting like Summertime in which the language of horizontal rectangles reminds and reminds paradoxically of the classical grounding of the painter’s idea in landscape.
The containing of romantic joyousness by the conceptual grid of Apollonian order or the more enigmatic Asian calligraphic explanation establishes balance within pasqualini’s own rich Italian sensitivity.
Extract from “AN OVERVIEW” by Colin Shingleton August 20
EDUCATION
- 1964-1967 - Diploma of Art, Painting Major, The Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy
- 1976-1979 - Bachelor of Education, The University of Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2002 Recent paintings, GOYA galleries, 85e Queensbridge St. Southbank, Melbourne.
- 2000 From Black Sun to Venus, GOYA galleries, 31 La Trobe St. Melbourne.
- 1998 Public Office, 100 Adderley St. West Melbourne.
- 1997 Grand Central Art, Selected New Work and Retrospective, 550 Bourke St. Melbourne.
- 1994 Black Rain, an Exhibition of recent paintings, Roar-2-Studios, Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
- 1993 No Vacancy, Interactive Painting, Upper Level Windows, City Square, Melbourne.
- 1991 Cloud Poems, an exhibition of paintings and installation at No Vacancy 185 Collins St. Melbourne.
- 2007 Tall Grass, paintings, bsg 322 Brunswick St Fitzroy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2000 QUATTRO, Chiara Goya Gallery, 95 Victoria St. Fitzroy.
- 1999 Roar Studios, Members’ Show.
- 1996 A3 Piece, Yume Ya Gallery, Collingwood.
- 2006 Body Show, bsg 322 Brunswick St Fitzroy