(23 March 2017) Portugal pays homage once again to Italian contemporary art this time by exhibiting a young artist from Vicenza. On March 28th at 18:30, the exhibition of Gabriele Brucceri’s watercolours “Fragments of Memory” will be inaugurated at the Italian Cultural Institute of Lisbon. Brucceri is the winner of the international prize “Fabriano Watercolour 2014”. The inauguration will also feature the architect and watercolour painter Vasco d’Orey Bobone who will carry out opening remarks on the exhibition which remains open until April 28th. This exhibition is part of a series of public programmes devoted to Fabriano’s paper and craft that were inaugurated in February by the Director of the Fabriano Paper and Watermark Museum followed by conferences on paper and photography restoration at the National Library of Lisbon (red)

WHO IS GABRIELE BRUCCERI

Gabriele Brucceri was born in Vicenza in 1982. He graduated from the Fine Art Academy of Bologna where he studied painting in 2006 and Printmaking in 2008. Brucceri has been featured in numerous international and national exhibitions among which: “Con_sequenze” at the Studio d’Arte Cannaviello in Milan (2010-2011); “Anni 10” at the State Institute of Culture of Sophia (2010); “Ispirarsi a Caravaggio” at the Fondazione Città di Cremona (2010); “Abissale” at the Galleria d’Arte Opere Scelte” in Turin (2015); “Frammenti del ricordo” at the Paper and Watermark Museum (2016); ‘Paesaggio future” at Deutsche Bank Spazio Gioia in Milan (December 2016 – March 2017). In 2014 he won the International Fabriano Watercolour Award. He currently lives and works in Vicenza.