Bruno Chersicla

Bruno Chersicla
Born October 10, 1937
Trieste, Italy
Died April 3, 2013 (aged 75)
Trieste, Italy
Nationality Italy Italian
Education State Arts Institute
Known for Painting, sculpture
Movement Contemporary

Bruno Chersicla (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbruno kɛrˈsikla]) (10 October 1937 3 May 2013) was an Italian painter and sculptor.

Biography

Bruno Chersicla studied at the Istituto Statale d'Arte per l'Arredamento e la Decorazione della Nave e degli Interni (a State arts institute) in Trieste. He realised his first informal works in 1958. In the 1950s he also realises works on the liner ships SS Aurelia, SS Galileo Galilei, SS Raffaello, SS Eugenio C and SS Oceanic.[1]

In the 1960s he is among the founders of the Triestan group Raccordosei, and he realises the sets and costumes for the Teatro Stabile di Prosa in Trieste and for the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, where he lives since 1966. The production of informal works is followed from the end of the 1960' by an experimental period in the construction of wooden polychrome structures entitled baroki. In the 1970s the abstact solutions are complemented by a kind of representation of geometrical forms, Lezione di Geometria (lesson of geometry) and later, with the work Spitzenkongress, Chersicla starts to realise portraits in particular of personalities of the avant-garde culture who shaped his identity: Klee, Tàpies, Svevo, Joyce, Klimt, Depero.[2]

In 1982, year of the centenary of Joyce, he realises drawings and sculptures in Trieste for È tornato Joyce (Joyce is back). In 1986 he realises come large-scale works that are the symbols of the city of Trieste for the exhibition Trouver Trieste at the Conciergerie and at the Centre Beaubourg in Paris. Shortly before passing away he exhibited again in Paris, in 2010, at Gallerie Barès. From 1992 on he participates to the completion of the Annunciazione Church in Pregallo di Lesmo (Province of Monza and Brianza) with the sculpture of the Annunciation behind the Altar, the confessional and the stations of the Via Crucis.

He presents a big anthological exhibition in 1994 in Reggio Emilia and in 1997 in the Museo Rivoltella in Trieste. In 2001 he sets a Guinness World Record for the world's largest painting on the Piazza dell'Unità Italiana in Trieste.

His made major exhibitions in North America in the last years, e.g. Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, New York, and Toronto.[3]

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