Isabella Bruno Ysbel - Il Respiro

Before embracing the freedom of abstraction, my research paused on the forms of the female body, reinterpreting them. This series titled “Il Gesto dell'Anima” tells of women captured in intense poses, where each stance, sometimes exaggerated, is not only a shape but an inner vibration. I wanted to represent the truth of a moment: a gaze, a muscular tension, exposed fragility, pure volume and emotion.

Painting these figures, whose forms twist and compress, with limbs too large for the space that contains them, was a way to objectify a sense of emotional confinement: the marked lines and the tactile brushstrokes are scars of a tense dialogue with the material. The mood that guided me expresses a constant tension between being trapped in the flesh and the desire to melt into the air.

The Breath: A Gesture Between Light and Shadow
When I painted 'Il Respiro', I did not seek the calm of a light breath, but the force of a vital act that rends the silence of the soul. This work was born from the urgency to give body to that invisible instant in which the inside and the outside meet and clash.

I chose burning reds and intense yellows because they represent the warmth of blood, passion, but also that tension necessary to exist. They are the colors of the fire burning inside, of a vitality that accepts no compromise.

However, my breath must carve its way through the shadows. Those dark, almost black strokes that envelop the figure represent the weight of the world, the fears, or perhaps those aspects of my subconscious that seek to suffocate me. In this contrast, my painterly ‘gesture’ becomes a struggle for space: every stroke of the brush is a way to reclaim my right to expand, not to be overwhelmed.

It is the catharsis of a sigh that frees the chest.
It is the story of how the soul, through the simple and powerful gesture of breathing, manages to transform the chaos of shadows into a vibrant light.

The Breath
Mixed media
cm. 60x100

Artist Isabella Bruno Ysbel, Italian.
Official site www.ysbel.it
Work for sale
Title: Il Respiro, belonging to the series “Il Gesto dell'Anima”
Mixed media on canvas (acrylic colors, varnish, enamel)
Dimensions cm. 100x80
Signature on front right and on the back of the canvas.
Comes with an authenticity certificate.
Excellent condition; the canvas was painted by me in 2011.
The work will be shipped in its original condition, i.e., on wooden frame.
The work is ready to be hung (edges painted, does not necessarily require a frame).

Since December 14, 2022 my work "Great Expectations" has become part of the permanent collection of the Public Library of the Municipality of Moncalieri "A. Arduino" - MuBio-Museum in Library Public Art Project. Location: Canon Hall

Solo Exhibitions:
“Showcasing”
From December 8 to December 24, 2013 – Turin – MILLEVOLTI Bookstore
“Involuntary Bodies in Dense Minds”
From April 2 to 11, 2009 – Turin – Confraternity of Artists

“Fun... Aperiparty”
February 12, 2009 – Turin – Spazio

“Café Paris”
April 2008 – Turin – Café Paris

“The Painted Color”
From December 8 to 31, 2007 – Turin – MILLEVOLTI Bookstore

“Art and Fashion”
From October 19 to 30, 2006 – Turin – Biko's

Group exhibitions:
“Collective La Morra”
From January 1 to 31, 2010 – La Morra (CN) – Municipal Winery of La Morra

“Rights-Integrated Exhibition”
June 21–22, 2009 – Turin – Onda Urbana Onlus Association

“167 Exhibition of Figurative Arts”
April 2009 – Turin – Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts

“International Italy Art 2009”
From March 25 to April 6, 2009 – Turin – Villa Gualino

“166 Exhibition of Figurative Arts”
From March 28 to April 27, 2008 – Turin – Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts
Les Couleurs de l'Italie”
From September 1 to 15, 2007 – Paris – Galerie d'Art Espace Arsinoé

“EAT - Nourishing Art”
From March 20 to April 1, 2007 – Turin – Italian Art in the World Onlus

“Artinfiore”
September 24, 2006 – Villastellone (TO) – Aldo Assom Painter Art Competition

“Terre Calde”
From August 1 to 8, 2006 – S. Margherita Ligure (GE) – Il Sorpasso Art Gallery