Bruno Pulga, Abstract Composition 60 X81

Oil on canvas 60 x 81 "abstract composition" signed on the back Bruno Pulga was born in Bologna on July 14, 1922. From 1943 to 1949, after graduating from the artistic high school in Bologna, he continued his studies at the architecture faculty of Venice and Florence. He also attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna where his teachers are Giorgio Morandi and Virgilio Guidi. In 1950 he made a first trip to Paris. In 1954 Bruno Pulga took part in a first group exhibition in Turin ("La Bussola" gallery), presented his first solo exhibition in Bologna the following year, then collaborated with the "Il Milione" gallery in Milan. After a six-month stay in London, he exhibited there in 1958, as well as in Munich, then worked in Berlin and moved to Paris in 1961. There he quickly bonded with the painters Mušič, Gischia, Hartung, Pignon , Anna-Eva Bergman, Ida Barbarigo, with whom he exhibited in 1962 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, in 1964 in Germany (Wolsburg and Nuremberg Museums). In 1963 he received a prize at the Venice Engraving Biennale. From 1965 Pulga exhibited regularly in Italy, in Bergamo (Lorenzelli gallery), Turin, Milan, Bologna, Venice and in Paris (Facchetti gallery, Salon de Mai, Martin Malburet gallery, Ariel gallery). His last exhibitions are in 1988 in the Alternatives and in 1989 at the Gallery 2016.