Biography
A fascination with male figure, Christian imagery, sacred subjects and older art, especially devotional painting of the Renaissance has often haunted the work of Alberto Brusamolino as he uses a variety of different approaches to the subjects in an effort to confront our experience with them and our relationship to them.
Masterpieces from the past not only suggest technical skills; they also offer a wide range of allegories and symbols for translating personal feelings into his works and photographs.
Religious works of the fifteenth century were his main preoccupation, and several of these - Fra Angelico’s frescoes cycle at San Marco in Florence, later helped shape works in his own Celle del Dormitorio most important photographic series (2002-2007). The works are lifelike and sillent, like the paintings and the frescoes that inspired them. I’m interested in what Fra Angelico didn’t paint, those steps in between, says Alberto Brusamolino about this work. [...] More recently, his experimentations with the cut up technique source material from magazines together with his own photographs, brought him closer to an exploration of the figurative representations of the human body.
