About Bruno

Bruno walks through the enchanted forest.

Bruno Pasquier-Desvignes, born in France in 1930, has made art a way of life. He has followed the winds of his fantasy and adapted himself to the lands he visited, to the objects he found, and seeked the essence that made them alive.

He has filled countless sketchbooks of his travels, made etchings from Jamaica, South America, France, Nepal and an entire book on Katmandu.

He painted the places he settled in: Jamaica, upstate New York, France, Mexico, India, Australia, Bali, and South America. He exhibited wherever he was. As a sculptor he used whatever was at hand.

He made an animation film “the song of Roland” with corks and toothpicks, reminiscent of Calder’s circus. He was asked by James Ivory to be the Hands of Picasso in his film “Surviving Picasso” (starring Anthony Hopkins). He was invited to fill Grand Central Station in New York City (1995), and the Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires, with his Musical Bicycle sculptures.

In 1998 Roberto Edwards invited him to Chile to paint bodies, made a book with him of “Cuerpos Pintados” and asked him to create “IntegrArte”, a program of Social integration which recycled the discards of the world into art. For seven years he directed IntegrArte in Chile, Peru and Argentina. He now does it in Hudson, NY and in Hyeres, France, which gave him the medal of the city and adopted IntegrArte as a municipal program.

He does his work free of charge for he believes that this simple technique is a necessity for any community. It costs nothing, and integrates the young, the old, the rich and the poor in the discovery of their own creativity.

In fact, it is magic.