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Bruno Liberatore. Sculpture and Drawings At the exhibition, located in the General Staff building, the works of Bruno Liberatore are on display. Bruno Liberatore is one of the most creatively active and frequently exhibited sculptors of contemporary Italy. The exhibition is organized by the State Hermitage Museum with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the General Consulate of the Republic of Italy in St. Petersburg, Italian Institute in St. Petersburg, ENEL (Italy), and KMB Bank (part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group). The exhibition displays about thirty sculptures in bronze and terracotta, and about twenty drawings and approximately the same number of jewels. Bruno Liberatore (born 1947) is a professor at the Accademia de Belle Arte in Rome. He began his creative work as a student of the sculptor Pericle Fazzini and achieved broad recognition in the 1980s. Liberatore's individuality and tendency to devise new forms and dimensions began with his first works, which are rarely associated with figurative plastic art. The group of works from Liberatore's early career consists of simple forms, famous since ancient times - pyramids, truncated pyramids, closed surfaces, reminiscent of walls (Cordilleras, bronze, 1981; Wall, bronze, 1972 - 1975). It is possible that these sculptures reflect the youthful impressions on the artist, coming from Abruzzo, a region famous for its mountains and castles. With the combinations of pyramids of various shapes and sizes, the artist seeks to achieve unity with nature, creating a composition of monumental character, bringing sculpture to the verge of architecture (the display in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zola Predosa, near Bologna). Later, Liberatore turned more frequently to more complicated forms to achieve natural structures. With this change in purpose, the master's technique also changed. The artist now devotes himself to slowly building up the surface of his sculptures, which are made up of small parts, similar to flower petals and tree leaves. When discussing such art works, we should talk about the development of deep ideas, associated with the inanimate nature of the material, of the Earth, water, and elements. Through the plaster shapes, the sculpture aspires to express in particular, the various moods of Mother Earth. Sometimes it seems that she is benevolent to people and prepared to bear forth her fruit. At other times she turns against Man and opposes the violence which occurs above her, resembling a volcano, she casts out lava (Eruption 1, bronze, 1994 - 1996). The State Hermitage Museum exhibition displays works of various sizes by Liberatore: both monumental compositions, and smaller works are exhibited. An introduction on the work of the master is supplemented with the initial sketches and also jewellery, distinguished by its originality. The curator of the exhibition is Mr. S.O. Androsov, the Director of the Department of Western European Art History and a Doctor of Art History. |
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