Bruno Caruso (; 8 August 1927 – 4 November 2018) was an influential Italian artist, graphic designer and writer who spent much of his adult life working in

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. Caruso's work focused on the moral, political and ethical flaws of the 20th Century. He fought against influence of

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in Italian politics, protested against the

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, campaigned against use of

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s in psychiatric wards, and championed the rights of Sicilian farmers in their battle for land ownership in the aftermath of

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. Over the course of his career he created more than 25 collections of drawings, founded celebrated Sicilian cultural magazines, ''Sicilia'' and ''Ciclope'', and illustrated works by Machiavelli,

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, Leonardo Sciascia, Giovanni Arpino and

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amongst many others. Caruso's work has ended up in the collections of notable 20th-century patrons of the arts, including Helena Rubenstein, Arthur Jeffress and Irene Brin. In 1993 he was designated a 'commander' of the

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, and in 2001 he received the Gold Medal of Merit for Culture and Art from the

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. He was a member of the prestigious

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Life and works

Early life and education (1927-1948)

Bruno Caruso was born in

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, on August 8, 1927, to Giuseppe Caruso and Maria Cucco. As a child he learned to draw under the tutelage of his father, mainly copying the work of classical masters like

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and

Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna (, , ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in ord ...

. His first collection of drawings was completed at age 5 (1931–32); a

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featuring 'Il Cane' (1932), a meticulously crafted drawing of a dog, textured by needlepoint (see image). Caruso's early influences were the famous

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and

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, but as the

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and eventually

ignited, he turned his attention to depicting the horror and isolation of war. At age 19 he left Italy for the second time to visit Munich and the

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in Vienna, where he was profoundly affected by the work of

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and

George Grosz George Grosz (; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objec ...

. Immediately after the end of

, Caruso signed up to study law at the University of Palermo. He earned a living by writing dissertations for exchange students, and claimed to have submitted over 100 successful papers during his time at the university. Having completed his own law degree, he began a second degree in Classics, but dropped out following a dispute over the faculty's decision to award an honorary degree to a notorious (but unnamed) Sicilian-American celebrity. In 1948 Caruso took his first trip to

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where, confronted by the

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atrocities of

, he completed his first official collection entitled "Deutschland über alles", after

Artistic director, editor and graphic designer

In 1953 Caruso received a commission from the Sicilian Government to create ''Sicilia'', a magazine series celebrating Sicilian art and culture. As Artistic Director, Caruso was charged with setting up one of the first modern printing presses in Sicily, and forging strong relationships with artists, intellectuals and photographers from around the world, including

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and Brassai. In 1974 the magazine created a special edition in honour of Caruso, featuring a bespoke cover and 117 of his drawings. The early success of ''Sicilia'' caught the eye of Irene Brin and Gaspero del Corso, founders of the ''Galleria dell'Obelisco'' in Rome, a famous hub for Italy's artistic elite. Caruso became the director of the gallery's publishing arm and struck up close friendships with poets De Liberto,

and Leonardo Sinisgalli, and painters

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, Fabrizio Clerici, Colombotto Rosso and Renzo Vespignani. He also published the first books on The Triumph of Death (Palermo), Italian sculptor

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and German photographer

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Breakthrough (1952–1956)

Caruso's association with the ''Galleria dell'Obelisco'' led to his first major solo show in 1953, followed by his first

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in 1954, curated by Leonardo Sinisgalli. The collection made Caruso's name internationally, featuring what Sinisgalli labelled ''"a tiny universe of jugglers, sleep-walkers, acrobats, time-wasters, street urchins and craftsmen darting around cheerfully like fish caught in the net of a tragic, silent and unstable world"'', He had his first solo show in

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at the Arthur Jeffress Gallery in 1955, and saw his work appear in the collections of celebrated patrons of the arts across the

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like Helena Rubenstein, Larry Aldrich,

, Walter Bareiss, Eric Estorick,

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, Stanley J. Seeger and

John Hay Whitney John Hay Whitney (August 17, 1904 – February 8, 1982) was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the ''New York Herald Tribune'', and president of the Museum of Modern Art. He was a member of the Whitney family. Early life Whi ...

. File:Bruno Caruso - Uomo arrampicato - 1950.jpg, ''Uomo Arrampicato/Climbing Man'' (1955). Oil, 90x90. File:Bruno Caruso - Suonatori ambulanti - 1953.jpg, ''Suonatori ambulanti/Wandering Musicians'' (1953). Oil, 60x50. Nathan Cummings Collection, Chicago. File:Bruno Caruso - Gelataio - 1953.jpg, ''Gelataio/Ice Cream Seller'' (1953). Oil, 60x50. Formerly in the Helena Rubenstein Collection,

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Collection,

File:Bruno Caruso - Giornalaio - 1952.jpg, ''Giornalaio/The News Stand'' (1952). Ink Drawing. Formerly in the Renato Giani Collection,

File:Bruno Caruso - Deposito - 1952.jpg, ''Deposito/Wood Deposit'' (1952). Ink Drawing. Private Collection,

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Political drawings (1948–1973)

Bruno Caruso photographing a Guerilla Fighter

Back in Sicily, Caruso struck up a friendship with

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, leader of the

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, and began actively supporting the local peasant revolts. He completed a collection on the

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, and campaigned actively for the cultural emancipation of Sicily against the rise of the Mafia. His fight against the endemic corruption in Italian politics climaxed in the 1970s when he was fighting three concurrent legal cases against

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, Giovanni Gioia and

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. Throughout the 1950s he worked at Palermo's Psychiatric Hospital (the ''Real Casa dei Matti di Palermo''), producing a damning series of studies highlighting the use of medieval curing techniques and abject conditions in the wards, contributing to a major overhaul of the system. He returned to this theme throughout his career in collections like ''Manicomio'' (1969) and ''La Real Casa dei Matti'' (1975). Over the following years Caruso travelled extensively to

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and

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, studying

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and completing a series of drawings on dictatorships,

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, and the threat of

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. These drawings formed part of four collections; ''Il Pugno di ferro / The Iron Fist'' (1962); ''Pace in terra / Peace on Earth'' (1963); ''Totum procedit ex amore'' (1964); and ''La Tigre di carta / The Paper Tiger'' (1964). He returned to the

in the month of the

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, guest of Jack Levine,

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and

. On this trip he completed commissions for ''Time'', ''Fortune'' and ''Life'' magazines and, inspired by a meeting with

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, began work on ''Americana'' (1968) in which he championed the

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and stood against the

. The fight against the

became one of Caruso's most active political stands. He was invited to Hanoi by

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, the

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of the

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, and edited four books in support of their plight, including ''Vietnam: Biographia e documenti sull'aggressione imperialistica contro il popolo Vietnamita'' (1972). In 1972 he illustrated the last testament of

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's The Penal Colony.

Death (2018)

Bruno Caruso died on 4 November 2018 at the ''Regina Margherita'' hospice in

. He was 91 years old. Days before his death his son, Roberto Caruso, gave him a pencil and paper and, despite having refused to work for almost two years, he completed one final drawing; a melted, disfigured face (see image)."Official Website"
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Museum collections

* ttps://walkerart.org/collections/artists/bruno-caruso Bruno Caruso at the Walker Art Center* ttps://www.slam.org/search/bruno+caruso/ Bruno Caruso at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Bruno Caruso at the National Gallery of Victoria

Bruno Caruso at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Bruno Caruso at the Brooklyn Museum

Bruno Caruso at the WLD Foundation

Portrait
by Sanford H. Roth at the

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Portrait
by Sanford H. Roth at the

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Honours

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Key collections

Key monographs

Exhibitions (1950–1965)

* 1951 —

, Galleria Zabara: Sicilian Painters * 1951 —

, Giovane Sicilia: Contemporary Painters * 1952 —

, La Serenella: Bruno Caruso * 1952 —

, Galleria Arcobaleno: Bruno Caruso * 1954 —

, Galleria dell'Obelisco: Joie de Vivre * 1954 —

, Galleria dell'Obelisco: Bruno Caruso * 1954 —

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* 1954 —

, Galleria dell'Obelisco: 5 Painters, 5 Sculptors,

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* 1954 —

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, Cincinnati Museum of Modern Art: Young Italian Painters * 1954 —

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, Wakefield City Art Gallery: Contemporary Italian Art * 1955 — US Tour, 20 Imaginary Views of the American Scene by 20 Italian Artists * 1955 —

, Galleria dell'Obelisco: Around the World * 1955 —

, Arthur Jeffress Gallery: Bruno Caruso * 1955 —

, Third

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Prize * 1955 —

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, Galleria del Sole: Paintings & Drawings by Bruno Caruso * 1955 —

, VII

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* 1955 —

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, 60 Masters for the Next 30 Years * 1955 —

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: Contemporary Italian Art * 1955 —

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, L'Obelisco of Rome at David Jones * 1956 —

, Galleria dell'Obelisco: Bruno Caruso * 1956 — Zurich, Galerie H.U. Gasser: Bruno Caruso * 1956 —

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: Modern Italian Art * 1956 —

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, Galleria la Bussola: Bruno Caruso * 1956 —

, Galleria del Cavallino: Bruno Caruso * 1957 —

, Galleria d'Arte Moderna: In support of Exiled Hungarian Artists * 1958 —

, Galleria Flaccovio: Bruno Caruso * 1958 —

, La Permanente: Young Italian Artists * 1958 —

, Arthur Jeffress Gallery: Bruno Caruso * 1958 —

, Galleria dell'Obelisco: Bruno Caruso * 1958 —

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, Akademie Der Kunst: Italienische Kunst Am XX Jahrhundert * 1958 —

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, Galerie d'Art Moderne:

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* 1959 —

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, Pintura Italiana * 1959 —

, Galleria dell'Obelisco: Bruno Caruso * 1959 —

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, Museum of Modern Art: Italy Three Directions * 1959 —

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, Contemporary Italian Graphic Work * 1959 —

, Galerie Rive Gauche: Bruno Caruso * 1959 —

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, Pasadena Art Museum: 20th Century Art of Italy * 1960 —

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, Galleria del Teatro: Bruno Caruso * 1960 —

, Galleria dell'Obelisco: Bruno Caruso, New York Drawings * 1961 —

, Galleria Chiurazzi: 7 works by Bruno Caruso * 1961 —

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the Ga ...

, Galleria Sistina: Bruno Caruso * 1961 —

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label= Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. A town, and seat ...

, Sala Comunale: Bruno Caruso * 1961 —

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of G ...

, Galleria San Matteo: Bruno Caruso * 1961 —

, Galleria dell'Obelisco: The Sculptures of Bruno Caruso * 1961 —

, Galleria Il Torcoliere: Bruno Caruso, Drawings, Etchings, Lithographs * 1961 —

, Galleria dell'Obelisco: Against Nazism * 1961 —

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's admin ...

, Galleria Il Centro: Bruno Caruso * 1961 —

, Galleria la Colonna: Bruno Caruso * 1962 —

, Libreria al Ferro di Cavallo: Bruno Caruso, Pugno di Ferro * 1962 —

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, Galleria Bianco e Nero: Bruno Caruso * 1962 —

, Galleria Hoepli: Don't Forget * 1962 —

, ACA Gallery: Italian Art Today * 1963 —

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

, Institute of Culture: Bruno Caruso and Franco Gentilini * 1963 —

, Galleria Don Chiscotte: Bruno Caruso * 1963 —

, Galleria Gianferrari: Bruno Caruso * 1963 —

Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy ...

, Galleria La Panchetta: Bruno Caruso * 1963 —

, D'Arcy Gallery: Italian Drawing Today * 1963 —

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...

, V Biennale of the Mediterranean * 1963 —

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

, Copenhagen: Junge Italienische Malerei * 1963 —

, Galleria Don Chiscotte: Masters of Italian Painting * 1963 —

, Galleria Sistina: Inauguration of 1963/64 Program * 1964 —

, Arte al Borgo: Bruno Caruso * 1964 —

Ferrara Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stre ...

, Galleria Bigoni: Bruno Caruso * 1964 —

, ACA Gallery: Bruno Caruso * 1964 —

, Galleria Il Fante di Spade: New Italian Drawings * 1964 —

, Galleria 32: Caruso, Guttuso, Porzano * 1964 —

Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of ...

, Galleria Interni: Bruno Caruso * 1964 —

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

, Exhibition of 6 Graphic Artists * 1964 —

, Galleria Penelope: Anthology of Drawings and Etchings * 1965 —

, Galleria Bianco e Nero: Bruno Caruso * 1965 —

, Galleria 32: Bruno Caruso * 1965 —

, Galleria l'Approdo: Paintings of Bruno Caruso * 1965 —

, Galleria la Panchetta: Graphic work of Bruno Caruso * 1965 —

Caltanissetta Caltanissetta (; scn, Nissa or ) is a ''comune'' in the central interior of Sicily, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Caltanissetta. Its inhabitants are called ''Nisseni''. In 2017, the city had a population of 62,797. It is the 14th ...

, Graphic work of Bruno Caruso * 1965 —

, Palazzo delle Espozizioni: Quadriennale d'Arte * 1965 —

, ANPPIA: Anti fascism and Resistance * 1965 —

, La Permanente: Biennale di Milano * 1965 —

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico ...

, Palazzo Strozzi: XVII National Exhibition, Fiorino Award * 1965 —

, The Scalarini National Award for Political Drawings

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