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Bruno'
s Art Tel.091/6402655 Cell.340/2399310 e-mail: umbertobruno2@virgilio.it |
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HISTORY Umberto Bruno was born in Palermo, he passed his infancy among places, colors, tastes and perfumes typical of his Sicily. He attended schools of Sicilian artists of notable importance. From the artistic high school he studied to the IED (European Institute of Design) deepening his study of the pictorial techniques and of incision. In 1996 he worked with the ceramics and then he opened a laboratory in Monreale, center of the Sicilian craftsmanship of quality. |
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THE LABORATORY Umberto Bruno's laboraty is located in Monreale (Palermo). It is situated behind the cathedral in the centre of the municipality. |
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THE PHASES OF PRODUCTION T he phases of realization of the products are numerous. Th e quality of the production is not only tied up to the competence in the techniques but also to the choice of the materials. All the ceramics are realized with particular enamels that are fit to the alimentary uses. The phases of enamel of the pieces are accurate. Umberto Bruno begins from the conclusion of the clay, that generally happens to the lathe unless for some pieces (. handicraft tiles, sculptures, and in general all the objects with articulated forms). The object is set in the oven for the first cooking to 980 degrees, about 13 hours and then the object is enameled. The second phase proceeds for the coloration. So the piece is ready for the last phase of cooking that is done around to 940 degrees for 13 hours and then it begins the phase cooling (2 hours around). |
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THE STYLE Every single piece is created and drawn by the artist and it has origin as it conceives in the same moment of its realization evolving itself in the single phases of the trial. None of his works derives from the case, all are expression of the culture and the soul of his Sicily that speaks in the contemporary key. |
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THE RANGE The White terracotta is rich of styles and of the cultural heritages that govern the city of Palermo and particularly the Arab-Norman one for the typology of the sketches and the Greek tradition for the choice of the raw kind with decorums in relief. The geometric forms realized of terracotta and engraved enamel are born from the reproduction that the artist has wanted to create some apses of the Monreale's cathedral. The landscapes are undoubtedly a transposition of the illustration on the fertile ground of the ceramics, a figurative technique and of the color difficult and refined. The refinement of the colors is conquered by the tonalities crayon typical of the suggestive Sicilian landscape conferring to the realized pieces a lightness and together a heat that you/they conquer. The pieces are realized with an incision of the motive for the decoration directly on the clay, with the following incision of enamel and realized in an alternation among forms, colors and tones realize him a perfect fusion of all the styles and technical competences of the artist. The realized products are numerous in terms of decorums that of typologies of objects. Surely Umberto Bruno also deserves however mention the tied up activity to the realization of insignias developed both with the realization of the logo and on commission. |
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