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FROM 22 FEBRUARY TO 4th APRIL 2021
THOSE WHOO WATCH WILL BECOME THOSE WHO POSE
BECOME THE NEXT MODEL OF THE "TRAVELLER" SCULPTURE.
BY BRUNO CATALANO
Since February 22nd, an unprecedented Instragram contest in Art world has been launched
by the sculptor Bruno Catalano through the #brunocatalanoexperience.
Whishing to meet his community, the artist offers the possibility to everybody, to become his
next sculpture model. Through this international contest, the artist invites internauts of all
morphologies and styles to take photographs of themselves imitating the look of a "Traveller"
(the artist's emblematic sculpture). With creativity, the participants strike a pose and then
publish their photo on their Instagram profile.
On Sunday 4th April, Bruno Catalano will choose a winner and will invite them to his
studio in the south of France and will create a sculpture in their effigies.
Due to the current context and the decreasing physical relationships, artists are looking for
new inspirations while internauts, deprived of museums, are becoming aware of the Art need
in their lives.
Social networks are the best media to democratize the Art world and involving collectors and
novices in the creative process of artists.
EXHIBITION 2021
« HUBERT », COURCHEVEL 1850
AN UNPRECEDENTED CONTEST
For more than 25 years, his models choice has been a crucial step in Bruno Catalano's
work. At the origin of each of his « Travellers » there is a woman, a man in whom he has
found inspiration for his creations. A look, an expression, a stature, a detail… He finds
in them what will make the strength, the originality and the humanity of a work of art.
While physical encounters are still limited, Bruno Catalano launched an unprecedented
Instagram contest on February 22nd.
Wishing to reach out to his community, the artist Bruno Catalano offers everyone the
opportunity to become his next model. This competition is international !
HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE ?
• Be of legal age
• Subscribe to the Instagram @brunocesarcatalano and @lesgaleriesbartoux pages
• Participants must choose a suitcase or bag that is close to their heart
• Imitate the position of a Traveller and take a photo with face and bag clearly visible
• Publish the photo on Instagram account with the hashtag: #brunocatalanoexperience
• The participant's must have a public profile so that its publication is visible.
EXHIBITION 2019
DURING THE VENICE BIENNALE, ITALY
AN UNPRECEDENTED CONTEST
On April 4, Bruno Catalano will announce the winners on
Instagram. They will win a privileged meeting with the artist in his
studio in France to participate in the creation of a work as
models. The winners will also win 1 of 12 bronze sculptures of 70
cm in their effigies (20,000€ worth).
Regardless their country of residence, the winners will have their
travel expenses and their stay in France paid for by the
organization (Galeries Bartoux).
READ THE COMPLETE RULES
OF THE CONTEST
IMITATE THE LOOK OF A "TRAVELLER" WITH A BAG THAT IS CLOSE TO YOUR HEART
#BRUNOCATALANO EXPERIENCE
THEY TAKE A CHANCE …
#BRUNOCATALANO EXPERIENCE
BIOGRAPHY
AN INVITATION TO TRAVEL
Of Sicilian origin, born in 1960 in Morocco, Catalano moved to Marseille in 1970.
Bruno Catalano's sculptures are in bronze, more rarely in clay. Their mark: a break in the middle of the
body, with an asymmetry created by the invisibility of one of the two arms as a result of the tear.
Literally and plastically, the bodies are traversed by emptiness. They are torn by space. The alternation
is played out between mass and absence of mass, between full and empty, an endless theme in 20th
century sculpture, from Henri Moore to Jean Arp. In Bruno Catalano's work, void defines the limits of
space and defies the weight of the bronze masses. The effect is striking. It is all the more so as the
silhouettes gain in imposing dimensions. Literally, the landscape passes through the bodies, it inscribes
itself into them, melts into them.
In his figurative approach as in the choice of his material, the sculptor, it is true, plays on classicism.
Yet he dares to make a new gesture in the effect created by the gap that tears the bodies apart. The
contrast between the placid faces and the tear that runs through them says the cry that runs through
these travellers, a silent cry in the Munch’s manner. The voids are poignant in the measure of the
density sense they induce. A metaphorical benediction of the flaws of interiority? Disarray of these
travellers struggling with the dramas of their life's journey? Perseverance on an itinerary without regard
for its uprooting? The power of emptiness unmasked the banality of social appearances. The invisible is
more suggestive than what can be seen. Always on the move, always in transit, always on the move,
Bruno Catalano's sculptures do not let themselves be stopped by the trials of life, exile, uprooting,
detachment. Always, the horizon calls them. It constitutes them. Hence these men-scapes. Desires in
movement. Torchmen in search of scars. Since 2004, the artist's work has never stopped working on
BRUNO CATALANO, ARTIST SCULPTOR
the faults, digging the bodies, modelling the hollows.
HIS VALUES THE VOID AS A SIGNATURE Is it a voluntary departure towards a radiant horizon or a forced journey by exile and suffering? Is it a quest for freedom, a flight to a better world? Bruno Catalano's Men in pieces raises many questions SCULPTURE, A THERAPY From exile in Morocco to working as a labourer, Bruno Catalano discovered sculpture at the age of thirty, almost by chance: "It came more as a therapy, I wanted to do sculpture or modelling to occupy my time after my work as an electrician", confides the artist. An "occupation" that has established itself as a real talent recognised throughout the world. Noticed for the first time in 2005 in a contemporary art salon by a Parisian gallery owner, he moved from clay to bronze, and sculpts ever larger figures, achieving real technical prowess. THE SUITCASE CARRYING HISTORY An allegory of uprooting and pain, Bruno Catalano's sculptures also read like an autobiographical work. "It is my life that I show, when we live this immigrant experience we know that we have a part of ourselves that remains behind that we will have to forget but that is always deep inside us". A man in fragments, alone in front of his destiny, Catalano's walker seems to be linked to the world by a single object that allows him to escape. "As soon as the symbolism of the suitcase is introduced, it is humanity that is put in place, people's imaginations rest on a suitcase, you don't travel with your hands in your pockets"...
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