Who I am and what I do.
My name is Diego Bruzzi and I represent my father Giovanni Bruzzi (painter, writer and screenplayer) based in Firenze. You can have a complete view of his artworks and artistic career at his website: www.giovannibruzzi.it
In 2008, my father signed an agreement with SKY CINEMA to produce a movie based on his latest book "Professione biscazziere" (Illegal Casino Keeper) and adventurous life. The treatment has been completed together with Massimo Gaudioso (co-author of amazing and Cannes 2008 second prize winner “Gomorra”) and young emerging writer Alessandro Fabbri (author of famous book "Mosche a Hollywood" that became a movie called "Hollywood Flies" with Antonio Cupo). The story begins with Giovanni Bruzzi as a young Italian artist in Paris in the early Sixties and will describe his incredible adventure. It’s a wonderful TRUE STORY full of Art and Gambling and the title is "A gambling life".
One of the main role is the one of Albert, The Marseillais (a Corsican born man who was considered the greatest super-cheater for “chemin de fer” and “baccarat” in Europe during the Sixties and who used to fly, accompanied by his two bodyguards Bruno and Fez, with his private jet to the Middle East to bank these card-games against the Arab sheicks).
Please consider that Giovanni Bruzzi, in 1986 and 2001 Bruzzi collaborated with Italian director Pupi Avati on the screenplays for the highly successful films "Regalo di Natale" (Christmas Present) - a story about a all-night, high-stakes poker game played on Christmas Eve and its sequel, "La rivincita di Natale" (Christmas Rematch) (see the related link GIOCO D’AZZARDO/CINEMA at www.giovannibruzzi.it ).
On june 2nd 2006 Giovanni Bruzzi has been appointed Official Chevalier of the Italian Republic (“Cavaliere Ufficiale” della Repubblica Italiana), for artistic merit.
A short-biography:
Giovanni Bruzzi, the great grandson of the 19th-century Italian landscape master Stefano Bruzzi, began painting at the age of nine.
The Paris Years
Bruzzi studied under Rodolfo Margheri at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and had his first personal exhibition at Ottone Rosai's Galleria L'Indiano there. He worked in Paris during the 1960s, where Marc Vaux organized an important exhibition of his work at the Galerie du Foyer des Artistes in Montparnasse. Bruzzi's work from the Paris period includes paintings of his friend, legendary jazz drummer, Kenny Clarke.
The Gambling Years
To support his family during the early years of his artistic career, Bruzzi took jobs in the gambling underworld of Italy - working as a "banker" in the illegal casinos of Rome and Florence. With those years well behind him, Bruzzi is very candid about his early associations with Italy's underworld. His paintings from this period feature colourful portraits of the gamblers, cardsharps and mobsters who befriended him as a young man.
STUDIO BRUZZI - Via Santorre di Santarosa n. 1 - 50137 Firenze (ITALY)
Phone +39 055 613364www.giovannibruzzi.it
e-mail: pittore@giovannibruzzi.it
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