Dusciana

Dusciana Bravura

I often watch the world like if it could be remade in mosaic.
Dusciana Bravura

Dusciana always maintains herself in balance between elegance and enchantment, between fable and formal refinement. Her mosaic animals are wonderful: a bestiary worthy of a medieval Fableaux animated by armadillos, turtles, chameleons and emerald lizards, by oversized larks, by big magic deer that seem to be coming directly out of a Perrault fairy tale. It is a contemporary wunderkammer in which there are also portraits that look like votive images that mime the fixed faces with an unquiet grace. Her works have the same lightness and gracefulness of a childish dream; they are the secret of this simultaneously young and old alchemist.

Dusciana Bravura’s study is characterized by the use of the antique mosaic technique, that still embraces enormous expressive potentialities. Her works, active among elegant frames and more or less fantastic animals, do not need too much separation or precise conformist borders, it must proceed in the mind and emotion until it finds its own way: the long rhythm of mosaic, with all its rites, it is also an ideal opportunity to cultivate the mind.

…tassels (the tesserae) that become tools to express light. Mild sparkles capture us without blinding us. The works of Dusciana, interrupting the stagnancy of creativity, ask to be taken in and absorbed by the eyes. In a fragmented, lacerated world, she offers a way to put back together again what has been separated, taking us to view again.

Been born in Venice 1969. Lives and works in Ravenna. Diploma from the Institute of Art for the Mosaic "G.Severini" of Ravenna. Attended the course of Decoration near the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna (Prof. Mascalchi). Collaborated with her father, Mark Bravura, for the realization of the nine Fontanas in mosaic, public works for the cities of Ravenna, Beirut, Rimini, Forlì, Pesaro-Urbino, Sogliano.

First prize Picassiette, Chartres, France 1996.

Biennial prize under 30 of Art of the mosaic, Cesena, 1997 according to prize under 30.

PUBLIC WORKS:

Public square Dora Markus, Navy of Ravenna musivo Panel on design of Tawny Ceccobelli. Historical Diving Museum- Ravenna - Logo of the Museum

PERSONAL EXTENSIONS

1998 Palace of the Province, Ravenna.

1999 Former Church in Albis, Russians (RA).

2001 "Mirror of mine brame" Palace of the Prigioni"-Venice

COLLECTIVE EXTENSIONS

1990 Trentennale Institute of Art, Chiostri Franciscan, Ravenna.

1994 Palace of the Province, Ravenna.

1996 International Competition "Picassiette" ' 96, Chartres (2° prize).

1997 Biennial of Art Inhabitant of Romagna, Palace of the Reduced one, Cesena (2° prize under ' 30).

1998 "White and Bright" Hall of the Piece of furniture, Milan 2001 "S..Trani Senses" Svevo-Trani Castle.

2002 Biennial Postumia Young Museum of Art Moderna-Gazoldo (Mantova). 2003 "Suggestions of Tonino War" Warehouses dl Sale-Cervia (Ravenna.

2004 "Sailing to Byzantium" S.Maria of the Cross-Ravenna.

2005 "Ceramicamosaico" Gallery Oriani – Ravenna.