Prof. Valerio Pilon

... Bruno Pessani looks for his figurative poems in the field of still life and landscape. Instead of melting, falling into vague atmospheres, his emotion tends to condense, to look at the appearance of things.

Firmness in design, chiaroscuro highlighting, chromatic accentuation give its paintings a remarkable look, without shifting the sure formal balance. This of Pessani is enjoyable painting closely and far away. In still-life objects, usually numerous, fill the field of vision. Bottles, pots, cans, stuffs, funnels, apples and pears, felt as geometric solids, are close in a tight building, There is concreteness, but not in the true rapresentation. This is not a copy, but a reconstruction of forms. These still lifes possess the sharpness and synthesis of tarsie. The shrewd notes of color on the white and gray keyboard, inside the shadows of their own shadows and carried portray strangely the representation to a sort of mysterious occurrence. No intellectualism anyway, the metaphysical aspect is still intrinsic with a hot romantic feeling. Feeling and technique do not change in landscapes where architectural artifacts urgent in the foreground.

More fluffy and atmospheric are the countryside views, whose pictorial weave is more grainy. Large areas of sky, fields and hills extend the breath of the picture. The simplicity and strength of the feelings and inspiration of Pessani man perfectly match the clarity and vigor of his painting ...