Art Salon and Sale: Bruno Pasqualini

Bruno Pasqualini (1942-2026) was an accomplished artist, art teacher and tai chi educator based in Naarm. Bruno's family is opening his studio for this final exhibition and art sale to ensure that his incredible artworks find new lives in the world.

Hundreds of original paintings and sculptures will be available for three days only:

• Friday May 22 (5-8pm)
• Saturday May 23 (10am-2pm)
• Sunday May 24 (12-4pm)

Selected works by Bruno can be seen on his website: Artworks by Bruno Pasqualini

Bruno began his career in Italy at the The Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna. He travelled through Europe, the Middle-East and India in the sixties before settling in Australia in the early 1970s. Bruno's work itself also expands and travels across different artistic distances. His art is simultaneously abstract and representational, symbolic and figurative.

While much of Bruno’s work seems nonfigurative, it is also human in its tone and appearance.

Bruno's work is held in private collections and has been exhibited internationally in Venice and Bologna. In Melbourne he held solo shows at galleries including the legendary Roar Studios, Grand Central Art, Goya galleries and the Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre.

More information on Bruno's life and exhibitions: Curriculum Vitae for Bruno Pasqualini

Art critic and historian Maggie McCormick has written about Bruno's singular and powerful artistic vision:

"Bruno’s abstraction reflects the desire of romanticism to search nature and the emotions. His paintings begin at the point of gesture and intuition rather than from the point of an idea...There is a power in his strong colour choices and a subtlety in the mixing of these colours. This strong colour preference sits side by side with a strong sound preference for the music of Mahler and Wagner. More subtle references, in his work, are made to a range of experiences that have informed the work including Chinese calligraphy, Indian thought and life and the music and poetry of Leonard Cohen...

The art historian looks back and places boxes over and borders around groups of artists, linking them together with very particular threads. Artists generally walk an individual line and although they look to each other and glean from each other, they are not so neatly categorised and packaged as the art historian/writer might wish to project... Art never follows the convenient linear trail but rather a zig zag, overlapping path."

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