Bruno Pagliano is a self-taught Argentine painter and sculptor born in Rosario, Argentina, where he continues to live and work. Known for an expressive, emotionally charged approach he calls “savage sensibility,” Pagliano uses bold color and figurative imagery to explore love, pain, joy, melancholy, childhood, life and mortality. His work has been exhibited internationally in France, Spain, Italy, Chile, Mexico and Argentina, including participation in an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris. In 2024, the Consulate General of Argentina in New York presented his exhibition From Love and Pain, followed by Corazón at Casa Argentina in Rome during Rome Art Week. Get to know Bruno Pagliano and his work in this week’s Maker Monday.
Andrew Joseph: How do you incorporate client feedback into your designs?
Bruno Pagliano: In an intimate dialogue with the client, I usually discuss things from their life, like their favorite color palette, and from there I do my thing. Art. My intense sensitivity and perception connect immediately with my clients’ gaze and the exchange of ideas.
AJ: Best advice you’d give your teenage self?
BP: Although I don’t like giving advice, I would tell my teenage self: keep living, don’t leave this world; you will become Juan’s father, and you will make the world more beautiful with your art.
AJ: What is your favorite aspect of your job?
BP: That the client gives me their home or company and allows me to transform it into a living work of art, an experience where opening the door feels like entering the artwork itself and becoming part of it, not as a spectator but as a fundamental piece living alongside the work.
AJ: What’s your design pet peeve?
BP: When the artist stops doing what they feel or stops being themselves to please others; that essence must never be betrayed.
AJ: What is your favorite design era?
BP: I came into this world to be my son Juan’s father, to be an artist, and to be a friend to my friends and to those who are yet to come. So my favorite era is always while I am alive; every day I bring my works into being in my studio.
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