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Bruno Liberatore, from Abruzzo, born in 1947 in Penne, today holds the chair of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, the same one where he studied as a boy, a pupil of Fazzini and Mastroianni. Since the beginning of the 1980s, Liberatore has referred, in his works, to a nature evoked as an environmental memorial archetype, firstly echoing in his sculptures, as a narrative hub, primary plastic forms suggested by profiles and bodies of his Abruzzo mountains; therefore, from the Nineties, introjecting nature and landscape into a sort of original cosmogony. Read the full biography

Bruno Liberatore, from Abruzzo, born in 1947 in Penne, today holds the chair of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, the same one where he studied as a boy, a pupil of Fazzini and Mastroianni. Since the beginning of the 1980s, Liberatore has referred, in his works, to a nature evoked as an environmental memorial archetype, firstly echoing in his sculptures, as a narrative hub, primary plastic forms suggested by profiles and bodies of his Abruzzo mountains; therefore, from the Nineties, introjecting nature and landscape into a sort of original cosmogony. In fact, his sculpture takes on monumental aspects, it becomes landscape and the landscape becomes sculpture. There have been numerous major exhibitions: in 1993 an anthological exhibition was dedicated to him at the National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, in 1999 at the Schloss Pillnitz Museum in Dresden and again in 1999 he participated in the “Lavori in Corso 8” exhibition at the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. 2001 saw the Roman exhibition “Grandi Sculture” at the Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, followed by an exhibition at the Memorial de l'America Latina in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A recent anthology of his, also presented by Gillo Dorfles, stood out at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, where enormous sculptures were exhibited in the large Gala Courtyard of the museum, alongside smaller works, such as models, jewels and drawings, housed in the adjoining rooms of the General Staff. Bruno Liberatore's work, in recent decades, has repeatedly posed a strong challenge to the possibilities of sculpture, destined above all to become an all-encompassing image of landscape memory and telluric cosmogony. Landscape and germinating nature are imagined, in fact, not as the background of a represented event, of some narrative, but rather, protagonistically as the very body of the plastic proposal; in short, as a “substance of sculpture”. This approach is also very rare within the research scene of contemporary sculptors, in Italy or abroad.