Bruno Di Pietro

Bruno Di Pietro was born in Pescara (Ripacorbaria) on June 4, 1947. In 1950 his family emigrate to Argentina. Back in Abruzzo in 1953, he settles in a quiet country village a few km far from Chieti. Early in his schooling, he manifests his passion for drawing and watercolour and frescoes hunting scenes, landscapes and flowers on the walls of his house; he also follows a drawing and perspective course by correspondence. A nail to the wall is his first easel; the under-stairs, cluttered with shelves and demijohns, is his studio. There, he creates the first paintings on canvas which the artist shows in the Summer on the sidewalks of the promenade of Francavilla, Pescara and Pineto. That is the period when his passion for horses explodes, a passion probably born by reading Tex Willer comics which deepens with the habitual visits to his uncle who was a horsemanship instructor. In 1968 the artist leaves to serve in the army in Sardinia where he is able to carry out about 15 oils on canvas and various collages on cork trunk sections.
In 1970 Di Pietro moves to Milan in search of job opportunities. In 1971/1972 he attends the Academy of Brera directed by Professor Pompeo Borra and then he signs a contract with Eng. Bonetti – an entreprene...

2016 - Dodici Contemporaneamente (Twelve
simultaneously) - Group Exhibition - (Veroli, Lazio, Italy)
2015 - EARTH! - solo exhibition - Palazzo De 'Mayo (Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy).
2012 - CONFINI (BOUNDARIES) - solo exhibition - Aurum Museum (Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy)
2009 - Emergency Aquila - solo exhibition - Che Banca - Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy)
2004/2006 - The Iliad between myths and legends - solo exhibition (Ancona, Marche, Italy)
2002 - The Iliad and the Trojan legend - solo exhibition - (Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy)
1983 - Works of the 2nd period - solo exhibition - (Munchen, Germany)
1971/1977/1979/1980/ - Works of the first and second period - solo exhibition - (Milan, Lombardia, Italy)
1975/1977 - Works of the second period - solo exhibition - (Messina, Taormina, Sicily, Italy)
1974/1968 - Works of the first period - solo exhibition - (Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy)