Alessandro Bruschetti biography

Alessandro Bruschetti was an Italian painter and muralist and among 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 of his city.
In 1932 Alessandro Bruschetti moves to Rome to study restoration of ancient paintings and obtain qualification to teach drawing.
In the capital, he participates in the environment of the second futurism and meets the fellow countryman Gerardo Dottori, with whom an artistic understanding is born immediately that will see them as protagonists of aeropainting, the new futurist current dedicated to flight.
It was precisely the fellow Umbrian who introduced Alessandro Bruschetti to the founder of Futurism, Filippo Marinetti, who, seeing his Dynamism of Horses from the early Thirties, decrees his entry into his movement. He will 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 signs 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 by chance, this need materializes precisely in the years when aeronautics is at its peak in Italy.
Meanwhile, he establishes himself as one of Italy's most qualified restorers, also beginning to teach artistic subjects between Umbria and Lombardy. He is responsible for perfect copies on panel and canvas of works by authors from the fifteenth century onwards. In Milan, he meets the futurists Andreoni, Acquaviva, Belloli, and Crali.
Around the mid-'60s he develops his work towards polymaterialism and an abstract-geometric vision and theorizes purilumetry, with which he wants to define the geometric splendor and purity of light, preserving the concepts of dynamism and synthesis inherited from Futurism.
In the Sixties and Seventies he mainly works on sacred art for churches in Perugia (San Barnaba, The Resurrection) and Sassoferrato, showing a strong will to spiritualize the material.
Alessandro Bruschetti dies in Brugherio in 1980.