After Fucili (2004) allegorical apocaliptic story with an army made of children and foreigners, and after Brodo di niente (Canicola, 2007), the provocative book that looks over an Italy messed up by a disastrous national war with bizarre implications, Andrea Bruno continues his artistic career and style, made of ink stains and strong black&white contrasts, with Sabato tregua (Canicola, 2009).
It is a new marginalization story set in a freezing and unhealthy Italian province narrated with a dark an visionary realism that recalls the films of the Hungarian director Bela Tarr.
Born at Catania in 1972, Andrea Bruno has been publishing comic stories for 20 years and his works have appear on several Italian and foreign magazines and anthologies, from Italy and abroad, including: "Mano", "Le cheval sans tête", "Plaque", "Strapazin", "Babel", "Rosetta", "Forresten", "De Brakke Hond". After being awarded the Attilio Micheluzzi "Nuove strade" Prize at the Napoli Comicon and the "Lo straniero" Award in 2007 he was awarded as Best Author at the Lucca comics Festival. His work has been exhibited in Italy and abroad (Bologna, Perugia, Luzern, San Petersburg, Stockholm, Buenos Aires).
Sabato tregua is a big-format volume (30x42cm), born from the will of working with special attention on the possibilities of design and printing output and the ideal wish of linking itself with the tradition of comics and its language, born in the big pages of newspapers. The stories show us province landscapes interpreted by a powerful graphic style that through the sets and the characters tells an industrial dimension of human and community relationships. A vivid reading of our times.
The exhibition of the original big-format plates of the author is going to be held at Fragile Continuo gallery, in collaboration with Miomao gallery of Perugia.