Antonio Bruni, l’élan vital (Antonio Bruni, Vital Impulse)

What strikes one immediately in Bruni’s works is the architectural quality of the composition. Although the image at first seems to burst in all directions (literally and figuratively), the rigor of the drawing, combined with the balance of volumes and the contrast of colors, allows the artist to give coherent form to his teeming imagination.

Both the painter and his paintings are difficult to approach. When a newcomer arrives at the chalet to meet him, the artist tests him with a quip, a question, or by tossing a slice of old sausage onto the table, which is of dubious cleanliness… Others are offered a glass of dirty water as a welcome! One has to get past this obstacle to enter into communication with the painter. Likewise, an effort is needed to try to understand the work. Access to Bruni’s imaginary theater is out of reach for a distracted or hurried viewer. A quick glance at the paintings will leave them at best curious and intrigued, most often puzzled and disoriented, even downright exasperated.