Bruno Lucchesi, represented by Forum
Gallery for over thirty years, is a remarkable artist who seems to encompass
within his own work several centuries of Western sculpture. Known for his work
in bronze, Lucchesi has been called "the last of the Renaissance sculptors"
because of his remarkable facility with the human figure. There are "Gothic"
overtones due to the touches of everyday life incorporated in his works, while
the vigorous flowing forms of his sculpture are reminiscent of the Baroque
tradition
Lucchesi’s graceful nudes have allegiances to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romantic and Neoclassical sculpture, and his
"street people" look to the realism of Daumier. Unique to Bruno Lucchesi’s
figurative works and to the twentieth century is the daring cantilevered
"architecture" of certain tour-de-force pieces that seem to confound
gravity. |