Andrea Bucci

Andrea Bucci was born in 1966 in Viareggio, Tuscany, on the Italian seacoast, where he lives and works. Son of an artist, but self-taught in his medium of terra cotta, he laid aside a career in architecture to place himself under the critical public eye and affront the road of an artist. He has the spontaneity of youth but also the determination of one who has objectives and wants to pursue them.

His ceramic and bronze figures have poetic simplicity: where, however, everything has a sense. Certain accentuations and deformations finish his pieces with a normal appearance, as if the reality is that represented by the sculptor, and not vice versa. He has enormous bravura in making us accept personages and situations that seem to come out of a book of poetry, and not out of a kiln. He has a light touch and a fantastic grace in all that he presents; but he also has drive, energy, and comprehension of the possibilities - the end result is mastery of his medium.

Since 1986, Andrea has created his art on a professional level. He works both in clay and bronze in small and monumental sizes. Andrea actively participates in the Italian artistic life, with numerous collective and personal exhibitions, along with maintaining and...

2013
Exhibition at “Gruppo culturale Fornace Pasquinucci” Capraia Fiorentina (FI) Italy

2012
Personal exhibition at Windhover Center For The Arts, Fond du Lac, WI U.S.A.
Personal exhibition at Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI U.S.A.

2011
Winner of the China MTLE International City Public Art Exhibition in China for the realization of a two meters bronze.

2010
Inauguration of the bronze the “Wild buck ride” at Peer Gynt sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway
Personal exhibition at Kamer op Rozendaal, Rozendaal, Holland
Personal exhibition at Il Sogno Gallery, Amerongen, Holland
Group exhibition MEAM, European Museum of Modern Art, Fundació Fran Daurel Barcelona.

2009
Colletive exhibition with Guido Bucci, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Personal exhibition sponsered by city of Lucca for “September Lucchese,” Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

2007
Il Sogno Gallery, Amerongen, Holland

2006
Windhover Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

2005
Art Option Gallery, Wijk bij Durstede, Holland
Solo exhibition, Castle of Santa Margherita, Ligure, Italy
Saporito Gallery, Alba, Piedmont, Italy
Personal gallery exhibition in the town of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

2004
Gallery Night Milwau...