Alberto Brunello is an Italian multidisciplinary artist based in the UK. Painter, tattooer, visual artist and musician: while combining very personal ways of conceiving patterns, both visually and sonically, his explorations seek to find a new language of its own that shows an imagery of symbolic shapes and sigils travelling the distance between ancient iconography and a future, cross-dimensional alphabet.

Fundamentally instinctive, yet infused with archaic inspiration, this language/pattern is in continuous transformation towards the depth of human nature.

Brunello has exhibited his work at Encore Gallery (Bruxelles, BE), Varsi (Roma, IT), Everybody Lives Gallery (London, UK), Connaissance et Oubli (Bruxelles, BE), Filler (Milano, MI), Lago Film Festival (Revine Lago, IT), Pulsart (Schio, IT).

Since 2015 he plays and produces music with his solo project as HEXN and joined, as the sound artist, the ‘Body of Reverbs’: a contemporary ritual combining sound, pain, acupuncture and permanent marks on the body. Body of Reverbs has been presented in the form of live performances and installations across the UK, Europe, Asia and America.

Portrait by Ivano Pagnussat

The synergies created within the Varsi Lab have been the engine behind the collaboration born between Base/34 and Brunello.

This collection of jugs is part of a larger series of artworks called “Paintings from the boat”: an ongoing body of work consisting of small paintings on found frames and objects such as vases and weird artifacts and furniture. 

The subjects depicted are the ones close to my tattoo work and a broader folk imagination. 

Stripped of deeper research these artworks have a free and light approach, dancing on the fence between art and craft.

Each jug comes in a box designed and assembled by Base/34 and screenprinted by 56Fili.