Pietro Bulloni Biography
Pietro Bulloni was born in 1947, a graphic designer by profession, he owed his artistic training to the professors of the Brera Academy, Consadori and Cantatore for painting and Soli and Rui for sculpture. In 1965 he held his first exhibition in Lugano. Since 2000 he has attended Ceramiche San Giorgio where he makes use of Giovanni Poggi's experience for the creation of his original works. In 2007 in Albisola he held a significant solo exhibition where he exhibited his first works on canvas up to his recent ceramic production of sculptures and plates made at San Giorgio. The artist likes to define himself as a "worker" of the image, a lover of "simplicity" as a means of entering into direct, immediate communication with those who look at his works. All this naturally recalls the inspiring models that Bulloni recognizes as his spiritual leaders, namely Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, the legendary standard bearers of "Pop Art", to whom his love for the brightness and softness of acrylic colors (but the his old work as a graphic designer also exerts and influences!) as well as the sharpness of the lines that evoke objects from everyone's life. But not everything that appears really "is", because the piles of books in his paintings, the windows, the bottles, the furniture, the bicycles, the chairs in their trembling contours and in their chromatic brightness, isolated in space as if by some pictorial zoom, explode like flashbacks, where the memory of Van Gogh's hallucinated interiors (Bulloni's "Yellow Chair" seems like the sister of the chair shown in Vincent's "Room", painted in 1888) pairs with Dalì's dreamlike ecstasies (the “Five Bottles” seem like surreal variations of the Spanish artist's women, with or without drawers). Not to mention the original invention of the "check-catalogue", if not even the travel equipment of tourists between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Far from simple, therefore, Bulloni's paintings manage to communicate the complexity of Reality in a simple way. Pietro Bulloni holds the National Oscar for cultural exchange between Milan and the United States. He was awarded the “David d'Oro” (the Golden David) by the Municipality of Florence. He obtained first prize at the Artistic Review of the Palazzo dei Congressi Rome, sponsored by the President of the Republic. - His works can be found in public and private collections in Italy and abroad, and he has exhibited in most of the important Italian galleries and in many museums in Europe.
