David B. Smith Gallery

Artist Biography:

Mythological, spiritual, pantheistic: the first adjectives to define Bruno 9li's metaphysical world, one of the most interesting emerging artist within brazilian artistic panorama. 9li (pseudonym/abbreviation of Bruno Novelli,1980) sinthetizes within his artistic production several dichotomies and contraddictions of the brazilian world: metropolitan, ephemeral and technological.

In his works, animals seem to spring out the diaries and bestiaries of the first European explorers of the "New World", epic heroes strongly impose themselves to spectator's attention, trought an immersion in a supernatural and ancestral world. A return to origins, a lost golden age, permeate of symbology where you can clearly notice references of pop culture, comix and science fiction films.

With his frenetic and saturated line, Bruno 9li draws a chaotically ordered world, ruled by a mysterious alchemy that controles, between past and future, death and resurrection, fantastic metamorphosis and genetic mutations of beasts and paladins into demigods and androids.

In spite of his young age, Bruno 9li has been recognized by his work at the international level with solo exhibitions in Europe, North America and the Far East. The artist currently resides in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

-Lorenzo Gatt