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Artist
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 Bruno Pedrosa
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Was born in 1950 in the Fazenda Catingueira, Municipality of Cedro, North-East Brazil.
On turning eighteen, having decided to study art, he moved to Rio de Janeiro where he attended the School of Fine Arts, participating in group exhibitions and giving his first personal exhibition at the Antonio Parreiras Gallery. He actively took part in the student movement of 1968.
In 1969 he enrolled at the National School of Fine Arts (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), and began his first journeys throughout Brazil and other South American countries, also regularly participating in the National Fine Arts Show where he obtained the silver medal. During the same period he studied Archaeology and Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, obtaining all three degrees in 1974.
His interest in Brazilian baroque and the corresponding architecture in its various local characteristics dates from the Seventies. In the following years he also became interested in other South American countries, and in particular Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador; in fact, his first album of drawings on the town of Ouro Preto dates from that period, and precisely in 1972. The study of architecture increased his already great interest in the art and history of the Incas, leading him to travel often in the territories that were occupied by those peoples in pre-Columbian times.
He met and frequented the great Mexican mural painters, and in particular Alfaro Siqueiros. In Brazil he held personal exhibitions and devoted himself exclusively to drawing. His first foreign personal exhibition was at the “Museo del Grabado” in Buenos Aires, with a series of etchings on the carnival of Oruro (Bolivia). The same series was exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum and at the University of Tennessee, in the United States.
In 1975, sponsored by the Hartford-Bristol Foundation, he published his first album of drawings in the United States. Under the same sponsorship and organized by Pietro Maria Bardi, an art critic and director of the “Museu de Arte de São Paulo” (MASP), he held a series of exhibitions that began in New York, visiting many American and Mexican cities, and ending at the “Galleria Juan Martin”.
In 1976 he entered the Benedictine Monastery in Rio de Janeiro. During this period of absorption he painted a 6 sq m panel commissioned by the Benedictine Monastery of Juiz de Fora; he also painted a series of portraits, including that of Pope John Paul II (now in the Vatican) and a set of drawings centred on the monastery where he lived. These drawings became the originals of an album which in 1979 was combined with a personal exhibition at the MASP; the critic Clarival do Prado Valladares wrote the critical text and the authoress Rachel de Queiroz, the biography of the artist.
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His current works are displayed at Galleria Regina in Murano.
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1980 saw him leaving the monastery and taking up the life of the artist again, returning to exhibit in the United States, at the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, and in Buenos Aires at the “Galeria Vieux Paris”.
In June 1982 he married Elinor Garnero, of Italian parents, moving to Ipanema and opening a studio in Praia do Flamengo, where he worked every day, mainly drawing. In October 1986 he launched the album of drawings “Retratos do Rio”, with drawings by Pedrosa and poetry by Carlos Drummond de Andrade. The limited edition, signed and numbered by the authors, went hand in hand with an exhibition of the originals at the Villa Bernini Gallery in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1987 he moved with his family to the “Sitio Santa Maria” in the mountains of Nova Friburgo where, in the new studio and ideal peace and quiet for creating, an intense period of productivity and change in style began, passing from realistic naturalism to fouvista expressionism and the gestural abstract.
In 1988 he travelled to Portugal, Spain, France and Italy, and wrote articles and introductions for the exhibitions of friends. On returning to Brazil, he exhibited at the Nova Friburgo Cultural Centre the works produced in Venice.
1989 saw him once again with his wife in Europe, where he decided to choose a European country to live in. On returning to Brazil they had already decided on Italy. But before this big change, he held a personal exhibition at the Artlivre Gallery in Rio de Janeiro and a retrospective exhibition at the “Petrobrás” Cultural Centre in Rio de Janeiro, which gathered the works of twenty years of his graphic output.
In March 1990 he and his family arrived in Busca (CN), a town where his father-in-law, the Italian tenor Giovanni Garnero, was born. There, he lived with his wife and children for one year, producing an 8 sq m oil on canvas panel commissioned by the Roberto Marinho Brazilian managerial group. During the same period he held two personal exhibitions in Piedmont; in Cuneo at the “Galleria Etruria” and in Manta at the “Centro Culturale Santa Maria del Monastero”.
In 1991 he moved to Bassano del Grappa, in Veneto, where the proximity of Venice enabled him to approach the glass work of Murano. The passion that this material inspires resulted in his first works in glass, in 1995. His creations reached a high level and appreciation throughout the world, to the point of becoming “musts”. In that decade Pedrosa’s creativity flourished, and in fact he used all the materials at his disposal for his original jewellery, sculptures and tapestries.
The monograph which deals with his paintings from 1990 to 1998, the Italian years, was published in 1998.
The new millennium sees him involved in a large exhibition, organized at the Gallery of Fine Arts of Rio de Janeiro, still within the scope of the festivities for thirty years of career, and which will present all the many aspects of his art. A truly fine acknowledgement.
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