Bruno Billio: Illuminating Life
02 Feb 2019.  

Bruno Billio describes his artistic practice as being "informed by the active displacement and staging of the found object, a contemporary art strategy with a historically established lineage. The everyday is reinterpreted through its spatial and contextual re-appropriation by the  artist, who presents himself by proxy as both an interventionist and an inventor."

Bruno Billio is an installation artist, sculptor, and designer of contemporary works of art that are awe-inspiring. For the 2019 installment of  the Gladstone Hotel’s Come Up To My Room, Bruno transformed a studio into what can only be described as a living room overtaken by  Tron the video game.

Called TRON209, the neon-meets-blacklight interior is futuristic in its application, but because it’s imposed over a relatable living space,  the effect is oddly welcoming and familiar. A long-time resident artist at Gladstone, Bruno has been creating magical light works that  stretch the imagination and are as sophisticated as they are whimsical.

As an independent artist, Bruno has been living off his craft since he was 24, when he decided that he “was going to be an artist and  nothing else would do,” as he told MGT during an MGT interview back in January 2017. True to his word, Bruno has taken the world  around him into and given us back sculptural experiences and exhibits that have taken him to Milan, London, Miami, New York and Los  Angeles.