Alessandro Bruschetti biography

Alessandro Bruschetti was an Italian painter and muralist, and one of the main exponents of Umbrian Futurism. He was born in Perugia in 1910 and trained at the Art Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts in his city.
In 1932 Alessandro Bruschetti moved to Rome to study the restoration of ancient paintings and to obtain the qualification to teach drawing.
In the capital, he participates in the environment of the second futurism and meets his fellow countryman Gerardo Dottori, with whom an artistic understanding immediately develops, making them protagonists of aeropittura, the new futurist movement dedicated to flight.
It was indeed the fellow Umbrian citizen who introduced Alessandro Bruschetti to the founder of Futurism, Filippo Marinetti, who, upon seeing his Dinamismo di cavalli from the early Thirties, decreed his entry into the movement. He would participate with the Marinetti group in all the most important exhibitions in Italy and abroad (Venice Biennials, Rome Quadriennials, exhibitions in Berlin and Istanbul).
In 1941, he signed the Umbrian Futurist Manifesto of Aeropainting by Dottori. The movement opens the doors to a style that sees the aerial view as the only pictorial perspective, not surprisingly, this need materializes precisely in the years when aviation was at its peak in Italy.
In the meantime, he establishes himself as one of the most qualified restorers in Italy, also beginning to teach artistic subjects between Umbria and Lombardy. To him, we owe perfect copies on panel and canvas of works by authors from the 15th century onwards. In Milan, he meets the futurists Andreoni, Acquaviva, Belloli, and Crali.
By the mid-1960s, he developed his work towards polymaterialism and an abstract-geometric vision, and theorized purilumetry, with which he aimed to define the geometric splendor and purity of light, while preserving the concepts of dynamism and synthesis inherited from Futurism.
In the Sixties and Seventies, he worked mainly on sacred art for churches in Perugia (San Barnaba, La Resurrezione) and Sassoferrato, showing a strong desire to spiritualize the material.
Alessandro Bruschetti dies in Brugherio in 1980.