Ermanno Brosio

Casale Monferrato -1995

Lives and works in Milan.

He studied in Turin, graduating from the Accademia Albertina in 2018.

He completed his studies in Milan, graduating from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in 2021.

Ermanno Brosio paints through textiles—elements that, once deconstructed, are stitched back together and assembled with paint and other mixed media, forming layered, fragmented compositions that find an unexpected harmony. The garments chosen by the artist are often sourced from pre-used clothing, once clinging to someone’s body and now stretched across a frame or left to fall softly upon themselves after being dismantled. The structure of the canvas often remains at the base of his works, emphasizing a strong connection to the painter’s traditional support.

The reactivation of abandoned elements lies at the core of Brosio’s artistic practice—objects, fabrics, and garments once discarded and thrown away by someone, are assembled into a new semantic universe.

Clothes are the form we choose and the one we show; they are the way we depict ourselves. Being extremely close to our bodies, they are the most intimate and open form of our expression. We can see traces emerging from the fabrics that record movements and postures, methodical and unexpected occurrences, encounters, and clashes.

The fabrics I use are the waste of today’s overproduction and consumerist attitude.

Painting is a narrative machine that arises from effects and reproduces them; it is a visualized thought, a device that translates. The idea of an art that adheres to the objects, an art in which there is no difference but coincidence between the outside and the inside.