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Bruno Luna
Polychrome Bronze Sculpture Jazz Nightclub Piano Player in Tuxedo Bruno Luna

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Artist: Bruno Luna (Mexican, b.1963) Era: 20th century Dimensions: 14.5"L x 5.25"W x 10"H Edition Number: 22 of 30 The sculpture, exquisitely fashioned from bronze, portrays a voluptuous jazz cabaret pianist seated at a grand piano, attired in a tuxedo painted to enhance the details. Signed Bruno Luna. Bruno Luna was born in Mexico City in 1963. (his birth name was Norman Bardavid) Interested in art since his childhood, he completed a painting workshop with Professor Robin Bond, and then on to the Anahuac University of Mexico City to study Architecture and Graphic Design. He was an assistant to Marcelo Morandin, A renowned Mexican Sculptor. Over the years, his work evolved into a very distinct style, A style of voluptuousness influenced by Colombian master Fernando Botero (he calls them Gorditos) along with influences of Mexican tradition, and a cubist, almost Picasso esque treatment of the human figure. Bruno Luna's sculptures carry an undeniable air of joyousness, happiness and vitality. His work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many public and private collections. Among those are the collections owned by Prince Rainier of Monaco, the American actor Chevy Chase, and many others. Bruno Luna's sculptures appeared on Mexican most popular syndicated network, Televisa, in a soap opera called "Mi Abuelo y Yo". in 1986 he founded the 10/10 Gallery, promoting mainly artists from Mexico, Colombia and Cuba, they showed Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Andrés Alarcón and Nicolás Lugo Beltrán amongst others. The published editions of graphic pieces and sculptures.As an artist, his career began in 1981 with drawing explorations, sculptural reinterpretations and, later, with the creation of two obese characters – a man and a woman – who, with neo pop art aesthetics, Working solely in sculptural formats, his characters evaded the authorship of the promoter by masking themselves under the pseudonym of Bruno Luna. Since 2005, Bardavid began a patronage for Cuban artists. In 2012 he was named president of the Advisory Council of the National Commission for the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence (Comnapaz); in 2015 he was designated as an Honorary Member of the Latin American Pact for Education with Human Quality (PALECH) and, in 2016, the Art Commission of the Ibero-American Doctoral Cloister awarded him an Honorary Doctorate for the Revelation project, making him president of its Art Commission in 2017. Among his extensive collection of important pieces by artists from all over Latin America, the four thousand kites and art notebooks by Francisco Toledo stand out, which he began collecting in 2006. SELECT EXHIBITIONS Galeria Summa Atis, Mexico City Galeria Viart, mexico City Galeria Las Brisas, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico Galeria Mary'de Bernal, Panama Trey Ligon Gallery, laguna Beach, California, U.S.A. Promotion of Mexican Art, Mexico City Hotel El Presidente, Geneve, Switzerland Museum of Anthropology and History, Mexico Jessy's Gallery, Panama Tate Gallery, San Franciscom, California Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico University Museum of Comtemporary Art, Mexico City Art Expo new York, Jacob Javitz onvention Center, New York Art Americas, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, Florida Hemisphere Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona Palace of Fine Arts, Vina del Mar, Chile Wentworth Galleries Perry Art Gallery, New York Mileno Gallery, Costa Rica San Carlos Museum, Mexico City Gallerie Vendome, Palm Beach Gallerie Vendome, Palm Springs Art Spectrum Gallery, Aventura, Florida Gracie Lawrence Gallery, Del Ray Beach, Florida
  • Creator:
    Bruno Luna (1963, Mexican)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 5.25 in (13.34 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    minor age commensurate wear. please see photos.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38214865472

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