Bruto Pomodoro Biography
Bruto Pomodoro was born in Milan in 1961. Before dedicating himself to art, he made a career as a scientific designer. In 1994, he decided to embark on an artistic path and dedicated himself to painting and sculpture. His artistic research is rigorously abstract and focuses on the most secret aspects of the living world, from evolution to genetics, from the physical relationships of the laws of the universe to embryology. Bruto Pomodoro uses a symbolic narrative language to explore these themes and is based on a careful study of chromatic and compositional relationships. His first pictorial cycles, Contemplations and Elogi del Quadrato, present a spatial construction very close to the concretist theme and a use of bright polychromy. However, the works entitled Algenic Codes were born from his research, where the artist is interested in representing the dialectical relationship between the morphological potential of living things and the significant value of DNA, analyzed through the "alchemical transmutations" offered by genetic engineering. Pomodoro continued his research on his archetypes, focusing attention only on the key matrix of his work. This translated into the creation of Contomati e Disgiunti, where the artist tried to represent the entropic decomposition of the constituent elements of the Archetype. In 2005, Bruto Pomodoro developed his style of using collages and resins to create sculptures in the round. During the 54th Biennale in 2011, Bruto was present with his works in Venice with the collective Slide Art – Sign Off Design and with the personal exhibition Biomorphismi Plastici, curated by Roberta Semeraro. In September 2014, the monumental iron work Mater was inaugurated in Furnari, in the province of Messina, performed with the innovative exofusion technique. This large sculpture was created in collaboration with the artisan workers of the Fabbri d'Arte association.
