Bruno Dunley

Bruno Dunley (b. 1984, Petrópolis, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo. Dunley received a Bachelor's in Visual Art from Faculdade Santa Marcelina in São Paulo and Bachelor's in Photography from SENAC, São Paulo. His involvement in Grupo 2000e8 allowed for the artist to think critically about the trajectory of painting in the contemporary world. Since 2008, Dunley’s principle practice revolves around painting. His paintings begin from found images as well as from the analysis of the nature of painting, in which language codes such as gesture, plane, surface, and representation are understood as an alphabet, a common ground. Recently his practice has shifted towards gestural abstraction while still continuously representing everyday objects. Dunley states: "There is a visual variety in the most recent works. There is a fundamental change of the image function, a disbelief in a single way of representing, a disbelief in the affirmation of unity in your body of work and your identity through through a style -- a visual repetition strongly demarcated. Instead of articulating the way of doing things, kinds of visibility and a reflection on their relationships, that implies the construction of an effective, that work is supported and states.” A single color constantly predominates the entire surface of his canvases, suggesting a minimalist visual language and attributing a meditative quality to some of his paintings while revealing the lacunae in the apparent continuity of perception. Recent exhibitions include the solo shows: Ruído (Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, 2016), No lugar em que já estamos (Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, 2014); e (Centro Universitátio Maria Antonia, São Paulo, Brasil, 2013) and Bruno Dunley (11 Bis, Paris, France, 2012); as well as the group shows Os primeiros 10 anos (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil, 2011); Assim é se lhe parece (Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, 2011); and Paralela 2010 (Liceu de Artes e Ofícios, São Paulo, Brazil, 2010).

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