Taddeo Bruno Biography
Taddeo Bruno (1935 - 2013), born in Rome in 1935, emigrated to the South American country, to Mendoza, when he was just one year old. Here he had grown up, had started a family after his marriage to Anna, also of German origins, had trained artistically and started his career. But Taddeo had to flee from his new homeland. It was 1978 and the Bruno family had also risked being erased under the weight of Jorge Rafael Videla's military regime which eliminated dissidents, opponents and trade unionists. The only salvation was Europe. Taddeo used to recount the family's daring escape by ship. Returning to Europe, Taddeo Bruno stopped in Lisbon, Barcelona and Paris. Here one of the secretaries of the then president Giscard d'Estaing had advised him to return to Italy. And so he had done. Bruno had chosen to head towards Venice: a passage to Preganziol, then landing in Silea, until last September when he left for Buenos Aires, without returning. Taddeo Bruno has held dozens of personal and collective exhibitions, both in Argentina and in Italy. His works can be found in private collections in Italy and Argentina, but also in France, USA, Germany, Spain and Brazil. His painting, which reached its peak in the thirty years between the Seventies and Nineties, is above all figurative. The visit to the Dachau concentration camp leaves an indelible mark on Bruno's way of painting: hence the rooms, often empty, which frequently return in the paintings. Bruno's works were also exhibited at the Ca' Pesaro modern art museum in Venice as part of the Biennale in 1982.
