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“Working is my favourite way of expressing myself. I use the mosaic technique because it is based on a continual breaking down, a shattering of the old “Order”; I then reassemble it in another way capable of liberating emotions”.

Biography

Marco Bravura was born in 1949 in Ravenna, a city where he still lives and works. He attended the State Art School for Mosaic in Ravenna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

Bravuras works have been acquired by various Institutions, Banking Houses and private collections both in Europe and the United States of America. He founded the Institute Artistique Antonin in Beirut, Lebanon, in cooperation with Ravenna Municipality, the CPFP and the Pere Antonin.

Public works

Fountain ‘The Snail’ S. Agata Feltria (1994)
Flying Carpet Fountain for Cervia (1997)
‘The Moon in the Well’ fountain, S. Agata Feltria (1998)
Fountain in the F. Agosto Park (1999)
Fountain ‘Purple Ardea’ in Beyrouth, Lebanon (1999)
Le impronte della memoria (Imprints of Memory) (in Sant’Agata Feltria (2002)
Butterfly Fountain for Sogliano sul Rubicone (2003)
Romagna aqueduct fountain in Rimini (2003)
Fountain “Purple Ardea for Ravenna” (2004)

1989 “II Giardino delle Sette Stufe” – Sala dell’Arengo-Municipio di Rimini, Italy
1992 “The Art of Living” – Armory, New York, USA
1996 “Collettiva” – Ozaru, Japan
1996 “Ravenna Bella Dentro” – Palazzo della Provincia, Ravenna, Italy
1997 “S.Giovanni in Monte” – Universita di Bologna, Italy
1997 “Mosaico – Nuove Contaminazioni” – Galleria d’Arte Modema – Udine, Italy
1997 “Oggetti del Desiderio” – Mosaico e Design – Loggetta Lombardesca – Ravenna, Italy
1998 “International Mosaic Exhibition” – Alexandria, Egypt
1998 “Grand Opening” Blodwell Gallery – Beverly Hills. CA-USA
1999 “Collettiva” Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Skopje – Macedonia
1999 “II Respiro della Pietra” – Accademia d’Egitto – Rome, Italy
2002 “Sailing to Byzantium” – S. Maria delle Croci – Ravenna, Italy
2003 “Suggerimenti di Tonino Guerra” – Magazzini del Sale – Cervia, Ravenna
2005 “Ceramicamosaico” – Chiostri Francescani – Ravenna, Italy
2006 “Mosaique en fete” – Tour Saint Nicolas – Paray-le-Monial, France
2007 “A la Lumiere de Ravenne” – Tour Saint Nicolas – Paray-le-Monial, France
2008 “International Exhibition of Modern Mosaic”, Artplay, Moscow, Russia

Awards

First Prize at the Biennale Art of Romagna, 1998