Bruno Pasqualini
Painter (Melbourne VIC)

I was born in Bologna, Italy, where I attended the Academy of Fine Arts in the ’60s My four years at the Academy consisted in the study of painting, anatomy, printmaking & art history. While still at the Academy I was involved in the formation of a pre-Arte Povera group of artists working in the Studio Bentivoglio, Bologna, in 1967. Later we exhibited our work in Venice at the Palazzo Comunale.

I left Italy at the end of 1967 for London & Paris, later Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia – especially India. I arrived in Sydney in 1970, then Melbourne the year after, where I have lived since.

In Melbourne I attended Melbourne Teachers’ College in Carlton for a Bachelor in Art & Craft, majoring in photography under the guidance of Mark Strizic. In the seventies photography was very important to me – and still is, however, without giving up painting.

I have exhibited extensively in Melbourne over the last 35 years, as well as teaching Art in Secondary Colleges.

My work was very abstract in nature throughout the ‘90s and still is. I travel extensively to the Centre and/or North of Australia in an attempt to understand the essence of this land; bring the experiences back to my studio & develop a body of work (paintings) that incorporates my European roots with an understanding of the land in Australia.

My work is simultaneously abstract and representational, symbolic and figurative.

My most significant achievement as an artist would be to bridge the conceptual aspirations of the late sixties in Italy, to the desire of any Australian artist of European extraction to understand the essence of this land, without forgetting or denying my European descent.

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EXHIBITION HISTORY
2007 - Tall Grass, bsg, 322 Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
2002 - Recent Paintings, Goya Galleries, 85e Queensbery St. Southbank, Melbourne.
2000 - From Black Sun to Venus, Goya Galleries, 31 La Trobe St. Melbourne.
1998 - Public office, 100 Adderley St. West Melbourne.
1998 - "The Art of the Party", New works, Gordon Street, Clifton Hill.
1997 - Grand Central Art, Recent work and Retrospective, 550 Bourke St. Melbourne.
1994 - Black Rain, an Exhibition of recent paintings, Roar-2-Studios, Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
1994 - A City View, paintings at Level One Art, Swanston Walk, Melbourne.
1994 - No Vacancy, an installation of Paintings, 185-187 Collins St. Melbourne.
1993 - No Vacancy, Interactive Painting, Upper Level Windows, City Square, Melbourne.
1992 - No Vacancy, Installation Of Paintings at the Melbourne Town Hall Admin Foyer.
1991 - Cloud Poems, an exhibition of paintings and installation At No Vacancy, 185 Collins St, Melbourne.
1986 - The Old Cheese Factory, Berwick, Victoria.
1977 - Imago, Powell St. South Yarra.
1975 - Abnormals, Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
1972 - St. Judes, Carlton.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 - Small Works 2012, bsg, 322 Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
2009 - Time Flies, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy.
2007 - Body Show, bsg, 322 Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
2006 - Body Show, Brunswick St. Gallery, 2/322 Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
2000 - Quattro, Chiara Goya Gallery, 95 Victoria St. Fitzroy.
1999 - Roar Studios, Members' Show.
1998 - Melbourne Arts Club Show, Melbourne.
1998 - Paperwork, 69 Smith St. Fitzroy.
1998 - Sampler, 69 Smith St. Fitzroy
1997 - Icons Of Our Time, Yume Ya Gallery, Melbourne.
1997 - Roar Studios, 15th Anniversary Show.
1997 - Alpha, Yume Ya Gallery.
1997 - World In A Matchbox, Grand Central Art, Melbourne.
1996 - A3 Piece, Yume Ya Gallery, Collingwood.
1996 - A Four Art, 19ninety-six, West Space Footscray.
1996 - Infinity Minus One, Yume Ya Gallery, Collingwood.
1996 - Indulge, Fringe Salon 96, Prahran Market, Fringe Arcade.
1996 - Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne.
1996 - Spatial Polarities, stripp, 1 st floor, 72 Napier St. Fitzroy.
1996 - World In A Matchbox, Grand Central Gallery, Melbourne.
1995 - A Four Art, West Space, Footscray.
1995 - Shadowlands, Roar-2- Studios.
1995 - Fringe Salon, George Ballroom. St. Kilda.
1995 - The Transparent Box, a Nava/No Vacancy group show at Grand Central Gallery, 50 Bourke St. Melb
1995 - Aspects Of Valentine's, Roar - 2 - Studios.

1994 - Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne.
1994 - Sample 2, Roar - 2 - Studios, Fitzroy.
1994 - No Vacancy, A/4 Group Exhibition, Collins St. Melbourne.
1993 - No Vacancy, Program Launch Group Show at the Arts Victoria Foyer Gallery, South Melbourne.
1990 - Piccolo Spoleto, Footscray Community Centre.
1990 - Transitions, Footscray Community Centre.
1989 - The Roar -2- Summer Salon, Fitzroy.
1985 - Multicultural Vision, Footscray Community Centre.
1985 - St. Kilda Visual Arts Festival, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda.
1983 - Roar Studios, Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
1980 - Innocence And Aspirations, Gryphon Gallery, The University of Melbourne.
1978 - 100 Years of The Nude, Church St. Photographic Centre, Richmond.
1978 - Invergowrie, State College, Hawthorn.
1974 - Three Painters, Italian Cultural Centre, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
1966 - Bendini,Calzolari,Mazzoli,Ovan,Pasqualini,Sala Degli Specchi,Ca' Giustinian, Venizia, Italy.
1965 - Calzolari,Mazzoli,Ovan,Pasqualini,Studio Bentivoglio, Bologna, Italy.