Artist Profile

Roberto Bruno's works trace original perspectives in the world of art. Innovative and unique, they reflect the artist's vision and poetic form in form and content. Life understood as a form of art and art as a form of life. A constant dialogue between author and viewer that becomes an integral part of the artistic work. Hence the social and non-self-referential use of technology. Interactivity becomes language. It reveals the founding themes of the work and their stylistic code. The absurd and the nonsense become protagonists of the (rich) staging in a succession of theater coupes. Everything changes, nothing stays the same. Another founding theme of the works that change over time just like the author's life. An indissoluble fil rouge in continuous evolution from moment to moment. In this grasping every moment as unique and unrepeatable, the work becomes a litmus test of contemporaneity. Mirror mirror of my desires who is the fairest in the realm. A manifesto of the hedonistic and solipsistic age in which we live. Everything flows in an infinite swipe in search of a meaning that is elusive where the true meaning becomes the search itself. An intimate psychoanalytic navigation in which all the phases of the author's life are crossed. From childhood to maturity through adolescence. Here a surreal world is established in complete antithesis with the contemporary image society. The idea of ​​the frustration of the image and a revenge of the imagination finds its epilogue here. A language used in these imaginative excursions with strong existential implications that result in estrangement and nonsense. All the elements of the work are as if they were beings bearers of an extreme experience and hence their deformation and multiplication. They are witnesses of a magical world in which any illusion is possible. In this universe there is only room for the forms dear to the author. Human beings are banned from this circle to remind us of a single Japanese character which, not surprisingly, does not belong to the author's biographical life but is a face purchased from an image bank. Besides him, only the artist's father and mother are present in entirely manipulated photographs. But not only. Unrecognizable because they are blurred there are companions and companions of past life who in the present and in the work now have no defined features. The passage of time is thus manifested in the work where the aesthetic treatment becomes symbolic. . The words become the author's expressive metaphors in which it is easy to read the literary references that have strongly influenced my way of conceiving and living life. From Whitman's poetic form and musical sense, it is vital to Kerouac's beat world, crossing Henry Miller's conception of life as an art form and John Fante's profound humanity up to Samuel Beckett's sense of the absurd. Text flows like images in an ever-changing endless loop. The only thing that does not change is the domain name which guarantees the uniqueness and originality of the work as a source of non-falsifiable certification. The creation of designer mirrors for Seletti or interactive art mirrors maintains the same immersive and ironic flavor. Collaborations with international brands certify the universality of the language and above all its contemporaneity.

Institutional biography

Roberto Bruno born in Milan Master's Degree at the State University of Milan in Modern Literature, specialization in History of Arts and Entertainment. Master at the Politecnico di Milano in Multimedia Languages. Freelance journalist registered with the national order of journalists with card number 136433. He began his research path in the visual arts fascinated by the digital aesthetics of the World Wide Web, giving life to a surreal language with existential implications that result in estrangement and nonsense. He has created digital applications for major international and national brands with a highly innovative character: Teatro alla Scala, Feltrinelli, Nike, Prada, miu miu, Toiletpaper.

Exhibition

In the late 1990s and early 2000s he began his research in the visual arts fascinated by the digital aesthetics of the World Wide Web, giving life to a surreal language with existential implications that result in estrangement and nonsense. He has created digital applications for major international and national brands with a highly innovative character: Teatro alla Scala, Feltrinelli, Nike, Prada, miu miu, Toiletpaper. In recent years his conceptual research has also been applied to interactive design objects. But not only. Also on applications on paper and recycled materials.