L'urbinate 2 (2023) Painting by Bruscella & Capece

In 2019 the artistic partnership between Antonio Bruscella (1976) and Nunzio Capece (1954) was born. Two different languages ​​and two generations from which ideas, projects and works are born that become new cultural matter.

Every artist believes that their work is the best, if not the absolute best of art, and often minimizes, or worse, ridicules the work of others more or less openly, d' 039;on the other hand this also happened between Picasso and Matisse. Between Capece and Bruscella we have the opposite, the first figurative realist, the second abstract geometric, no point of contact; and it is from this apparent inconsistency that the latest works are born, in a hybrid language also in terms of techniques and materials.

For the two artists, figurative is a story because a work must tell, abstract or informal is atmosphere or emotion. And therefore from Bruscella's chromatically geometric canvases, silhouettes emerge inspired by more iconic prototypes, indifferently archaic or contemporary, to fill two-dimensional spaces, to arrive at the latest experiments with Capece's bas-reliefs which become three-dimensional supports for Bruscella's abstract constructions, in a mixture of old and new techniques reworked in a modern key.

Painting and sculpture itself become the product of this conceptual hybridization: and suddenly from an abstract composition by Bruscella, the portrait of Federico da Montefeltro emerges like a ghost, of the girl with the the pearl earring, or other icons of art or otherwise, visually perceiving the cultural link between ancient and contemporary, at the same time underlining the Italian and European roots of which the two artists are expressions and bearers.

A high-profile operation that attempts to bring back to the origins a cultural primacy and an identity that belonged to us. The audacious experimentation did not escape the attention of Vittorio Sgarbi who appreciated its spirit by affixing his autograph on the back of an 'Urbinate' on 30-06-2023 in Sant'Angelo le Fratte (Pz).

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists Artists presented by a gallery