1976-1979 - Bachelor of Education, The University of 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
2001
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 - Tall Grass, bsg
L2, 322 Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
2002 - Recent
Paintings, Goya Galleries, 85e Queensbery St. Southbank, Melbourne.
2000 - From Black Sun to Venus,
Goya Galleries, 31 La Trobe St. Melbourne.
1998 - Public office, 100 Adderley St. West
Melbourne.
- "The Art of the Party",
New works, Gordon Street, Clifton Hill.
1997 - Grand Central Art, Recent work and Retrospective, 550
Bourke St. Melbourne.
1994 - Black Rain, an Exhibition of recent paintings,
Roar-2-Studios, Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
- A City View, paintings at Level One
Art, Swanston Walk, Melbourne.
- No Vacancy, an installation of
Paintings, 185-187 Collins St. Melbourne.
1993 - No Vacancy, Interactive Painting, Upper Level Windows,
City Square, Melbourne.
1992 - No Vacancy, Installation Of Paintings at the
Melbourne Town Hall Admin Foyer.
1991 - Cloud Poems, an exhibition of paintings and
installation At No Vacancy, 185 Collins St, Melbourne.
1986 - The Old Cheese Factory, Berwick, Victoria.
1977 - Imago, Powell St. South Yarra.
1975 - Abnormals, Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
1972 - St. Judes, Carlton.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 - Body Show, bsg, 322 Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
2006 - Body Show, Brunswick St.
Gallery, 2/322 Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
2000 - Quattro, Chiara Goya Gallery, 95 Victoria St.
Fitzroy.
1999 - Roar Studios, Members' Show.
1998 - Melbourne Arts Club Show, Melbourne.
- Paperwork, 69 Smith St. Fitzroy.
- Sampler, 69 Smith St.
Fitzroy
1997 - Icons Of Our Time, Yume Ya Gallery, Melbourne.
- Roar Studios, 15th Anniversary
Show.
- Alpha, Yume Ya Gallery.
- World In A Matchbox, Grand
Central Art, Melbourne.
1996 - A3 Piece,
Yume Ya Gallery, Collingwood.
- A Four Art, 19ninety-six, West
Space Footscray.
- Infinity Minus One, Yume Ya
Gallery, Collingwood.
-
Indulge, Fringe Salon 96, Prahran Market, Fringe Arcade.
- Fifth Australian Contemporary Art
Fair, Melbourne.
- Spatial Polarities, stripp, 1
st floor, 72 Napier St. Fitzroy.
- World In A Matchbox, Grand Central
Gallery, Melbourne.
1995 - A Four Art, West Space,
Footscray.
-
Shadowlands, Roar-2- Studios.
- Fringe Salon, George Ballroom. St. Kilda.
