Takes off the 3 of October to the museum Diocesan of Milan the exhibition of the Milanese artist Alberto DeBraud, "End of the game", curated by the director of the Museum, Paolo Biscottini, and created thanks to General Bank (until as of November 11, 2012). Art and finance come together in an extremely timely exhibition which, through a journey of forty works based on the stylized figure of man, investigate themes such as the fragility of the human being, the precarious balance of the relationship between society and the individual and the continuous effort that the latter faces in seeking increasingly daring goals and objectives.
"In a difficult moment for the economy - says the CEO of Banca Generlai Piermario Motta - where even the traditional promoters of cultural initiatives are taking steps backwards, we are happy to be able to make, in our small way, a contribution to the city of Milan in the diffusion of art and of an intelligent artist like De Braud with an acute sensitivity towards some contemporary problems. This initiative is part of a process that Banca Generali started a few years ago which leads it to be at the forefront of its commitment on the territory both for social and cultural needs in the promotion of excellence”.
Sculptures and installations document an artistic research that has lasted for more than 30 years, in which repetition is experienced as a representation of the hidden meaning or symbol of things through allegorical forms that seek their state of being in lightness and balance. The leitmotif of Alberto de Braud's works remains the concept of metaphorical idea that links his research as an artist to accumulation, sequence, multiplication. On display, the decontextualized works chase each other between the dimension of play and an ironic and bizarre reality in the balance. This process provides the viewer with only fragments of reality, meaningless empty signs, which when assembled take on a new meaning, arbitrary and imposed by the artist "Personally, the human figure was one of the themes I explored most often because it is an inexhaustible theme , still full of possibilities and full of meanings and symbolisms, but it is not the only one - says De Braud - I have worked and still work in other directions and for this reason I strongly wanted in this exhibition to offer the public a complete vision of this subject me dear and get rid of it to face new adventures.”
De Braud, born in Milan in 1959, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, in 1983 to then embark on an international career. In New York he exhibits at the Mokotoff Gallery, New Gallery, ABC No Rio Gallery, Art in General, and participates in the exhibition "Artist in the Market place" (Bronx Museum, 1986). In 1991 he worked and taught at the Bemis Foundation, Nebraska, and created a bronze fountain for a park near Boston. In 1992 he took part in the Gubbio Sculpture Biennial. He moved to Paris in 1994, to the Citè International des Arts Foundation, and exhibited at the Pascal Lansberg and Sous-sol galleries. In Milan since 1998, his works are on display at the Bruna Soletti gallery, E-studio, Galleria Blu. In 2004 he presented a solo exhibition at the European Parliament in Strasbourg and in 2007 he was commissioned a monumental sculpture of 20 meters for Maciachini Center of Milan. Currently, in addition to exhibitions in private galleries, he is dedicated to monumental sculpture, public and private in Italy, Spain, Switzerland and France: we recall the installations at the Chalet Mollino in Salice d'Ulzo and at Palazzo Europa in Padua and the personal exhibition at the Quintocortile Gallery of Milan, in 2011. In 2008 the Diocesan Museum, which today hosts the solo show "End of the game", had already welcomed the large Unexpected installation: two gigantic apples hovering in the sky over Milan.
