Sandro Bracchitta

Sandro Bracchitta (born 24 September 1966 in Ragusa) is an Italian printmaker.

Biography Leading exponent of Italian engraving of the XXI° century, he studied in Florence where he attended the Course of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence getting his degree in 1990; in the same year he began working as a painter and engraver. His first solo exhibition took place in 1991 at Palazzo Datini in Prato, Italy.

In 2020 he was awarded a scholarship to specialise at "Il Bisonte", the School of Graphic Arts in Florence, and in 1993 he worked as an assistant of Maestro Viggiano, in the same school. In the same year he began to exhibit his works in several art exhibitions.

In 1994 he was invited to take part in the 'World Triennial Engraving Exhibition' in Chamalières (France), and in the same year he won the '14th edition of Mini Print International', in Cadaqués (Spain).

From 1994 to 1997 he was invited to several outstanding national and international exhibitions such as the '21st and 22nd International Biennial Graphics Exhibition' in Lubiana (Slovenia), The International Award in Graphics Arts in Biella (Italy), the Ibiza Biennial in Spain, the Cracow Triennial Engraving Exhibition in Poland, the Stedeliske Museum of Sint Niklaas, Belgium, as well as the International Graphics Exhibition in Bitola (Macedonia), Kharkiu (Russia), Uzice (Croatia), Györ and Budapest (Hungary).

In 2001 he received an award from the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo at the International Exhibition of Prints in Kanagay, and an award from the City Museum of Györ in Hungary. and the Grand Prize at the Ural Print Triennial in Russia. In 2009 he received the Grand Prize at the 2nd Bangkok Triennial International Print and Drawing Exhibition in Thailand. He was invited to exhibit at the Sicilian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.

In 2007 he received the first prize at the International Biennial of Engraving of Acqui Terme. in 2011 he was invited to the World Plate and Print Art Exhibition Millennial Wind, in the temple of Buddhist Tripitaka, in South Korea.

He was also invited – as the only Italian representative – to take part in the '4th Sapporo International Biennial' in Japan, in the 'Triennial Graphics Exhibition' in Tallinn (Estonia) and in the 'Beijing Ex Libris International Show' in the People's Republic of China, and to the 54th Venice Biennale.

In 2017 the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints of the Uffizi in Florence acquires one of his works of engraving.

On several occasions he exhibited with the "Gruppo di Scicli", a group of important and renowned Sicilian artists.

Currently, he is professor of engraving at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania. He lives and works in Ragusa.

Solo exhibitions 1997 Dvorni TRG Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 1999 Pyhäniemi '99, Hollola, Finland. Galleria della Pergola, Pesaro, Italy. 2000 Galleria Bottega d’Arte, Acqui Terme (Al), Italy. Covalenco Gallery, Geldrop, Holland. 2001 Galleria Tornabuoni, Florence, Italy. 2003 Zebra Two Gallery, London, Great Britain. Beukers Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland. Galleria Lo Magno, Modica (Rg), Italy. 2004 Galerie de Wégimont, Liege, Belgium. La Luce Del Vulcano, Galleria Visconti Fine Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2005 Ciclicamente Accade, GrafiqueArtGallery, Bologna, Italy. Galleria Repetto e Massucco, Acqui Terme (Al), Italy. 2006 La Luce Del Vulcano, Galleria Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg, France. Gallery Heike Arndt, København, Denmark. Galleria Zangbieri, Basil, Switzerland. 2012 Craved Miracles, Ex Chiesa di San Michele, Modica (Rg), Italy. 2013 Craved Miracles, Regional Museum, Valdstein Castle, Jičìn, Czech Republic. Carte, Galleria Koinè, Scicli, Ragusa, Italy. 2016 Teatro de Vila Real, Douro, Portugal. 2017 Oltre la soglia del tempo presente, Museo della Media Valle del Liri (sezione archeologica), Sora, Italy. Incisioni/Prints, Ex Convento del Carmine, Modica, Italy. 2018 Casa e Trasloco, Pygmalion Gallery, Timișoara, Romania. Nel respiro del tempo Incisioni /Prints 1997–2017, Umberto Mastroianni, Fundation, Castello di Ladislao, Arpino Italy L'archetipo... il segno, Quadrifoglio Gallery, Ortigia, Siracusa, Italy

Group exhibitions 1993 Galleria Il Bisonte, Florence, Italy. 1995 21st International Biennial Graphics Exhibition, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Prize for Young Italian Engravers, Museo d’Arte Con¬tem¬poranea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy. 1996 International Prize for Graphic Art, Biella, Italy. 14th Ibiza Biennial, Ibiza, Spain. 1997 Cracow Triennial Engraving Exhibition, Krakow, Poland. Stedeliske Museum, Sint Niklaas, Belgium. III Biennial Engraving Exhibition Dry Point, Uzice, Croatia. 1998 4th Sapporo International Print Biennial Exhibition, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan. First World Small Printings & Ex-libris Works Exhibition, Beijing, People's Republic of China. 2000 Quarant’anni de Il Bisonte, Museo Marino Marini, Concorso Internazionale per la Grafica d’Arte (3rd prize), Florence, Italy. Krakow Triennial Engraving Exhibition "Bridge to the future", Kraków, Poland. International Print Triennial, Nuremberg, Germany. 5th European Engraving Biennial of Small Graphics Forms, Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. 2001 International Print Triennial 2001, Kawa Prefectural Gallery, Kanagawa (National Museum Prize of the National Museum of Modern Art of Tokyo), Japan. 2002 Intergraphia, World Award Winners Gallery, Torun City Museum, Poland. Graphica Creativa 2002, Jyvaskyla, Finland. The 12th Space International Print Biennial, Sunkok Kunstmuseum, Seoul, Korea. 6th International Biennial of Small Graphic Forms, Budapest. 2003 4° Biennale Internationale de Gravure, Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Liege, Belgium. Seven Print Artists from around the World, Hyundai Arts Center Gallery, Ulsan, Korea. Il Bisonte agli Uffizi, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. 8th Engraving Triennial, Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy. 2004 Sandro Bracchitta – Piero Ruggeri, Beukers Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland. 2005 Biennale Internationale de Gravure, Liege, Belgium. 2006 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, People's Republic of China. 2007 Internationale Grafiktriennale Krakau, Oldenburg Wien 2007 at Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria. 2008 13th International Biennial Print Exhibition, R.O.C. National Taiwan. 2009 The 2nd Bangkok Triennial International Print and Drawing Exhibition "Grand Prize for Engraving", Bangkok, Thailand. Biennale Internazionale D’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Quèbec, Canada. 2010 In Galleria..., Galleria Stefano Forni, Bologna, Italy. Galleria Zangbieri, Basel, Switzerland. 2011 Maestri dell’incisione contemporanea italiana, Museo Slesiano di Katowice, Poland. Space International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea. World Plate and Print Art Exhibition – Millennial Wind' Korea. 54th Venice International Biennial of Art, Pavilion Italy / Sicily, curated by V. Sgarbi, Galleria Civica Montevergini, Syracuse (Sicily). Acqui Incisione Prize-Travelling Exhibition, Fundación C.I.E.C., Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporánea, Betanzos, Coruña, Spain. 2012 Acqui Incisione Prize-Travelling Exhibition, Palazzo Robellini, Acqui Terme and AL-Cultuur Centrum, Ypres, Belgium. 2013 Tribuna Graphic 2013, Art Museum Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 2014 Segni Moderni, O RI E Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. 7th international printmaking Biennial of Douro 2014, Museu do Côa, Vila Nova de Foz Côa – Portugal. Rene Carcan International Prize For Printmaking, BELvue Museum, Brussels, Belgium. 2015 Print Works of Contemporary Artists in Italy, Art Zone Kaguraoka Gallery, Kyoto, Japan. 5TH Guanlan International Print Biennial, Guanlan, China. 2nd Global Print 2015, Douro, Côa Museum, Vila Nova de Fozcôa, Portugal. 5th Indonesia Triennial of Graphic Art, BentaraBudaya, Jakarta, Indonesia. Diplomatic Art, Helios Gallery, Timişoara, Romania. Print Works of Contemporary Artists in Italy, Art Zone Kaguraoka Gallery, Kyoto, Japan. 5TH Guanlan International Print Biennial, Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, China. 2nd Global Print 2015, Douro, Côa Museum, Vila Nova de Fozcôa, Portugal. 5th Indonesia Triennial of Graphic Art, BentaraBudaya, Jakarta, Indonesia. Diplomatic Art, Helios Gallery, Timişoara, Romania. International Print Triennial, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland. 2016 Incisori italiani, Palazzo Lomellini, Carmagnola, Italy. 1st Łódź International Print Biennial, Fabryka Sztuki, Łódź, Poland. 2017 6TH Guanlan International Print Biennial, China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, China. Imago Mundi, Spazio ZAC – Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo, Italy. Libri d'Artista, Academy of Fine Arts collection, Oratorio dei SS. Elena e Costantino, Palermo, Italy. 2018 Italian-Irish Connection, Garter Lane Art Center, Waterford, Ireland. Italia – Cina, Esposizione Internazionale di Incisione, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea del Yinchuan, China. Italian-Irish Connection, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland. Alter Ego, grafica Romena e Italiana, Museo d'Arte di Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 2019 Empatie e Contaminazioni, Musei Civici, Pavia, Italy. 7TH Guanlan International Print Biennial, China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, China. Deja vu-Odessa, Invitational Visual Art Project, Literary Museum, Odessa, Ucraina. Resonance between civilization, China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, China. *Parallelsi, San Stefano Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria. On Paper IV, MACC, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Calasetta, Italy.

Prizes 1994 14th Mini Print International, Taller Galleria Fort, Cadaquès, Spain. 1997 2nd National Prize of Engraving "Fabio Bertoni" ( first prize), Fermignano (Ps), Italy. 1998 Grand Prix, International Mini Print Finland, Lahti Art Museum, Finland. 2001 International Triennial of Engraving, Kanagawa, Japan. 2001 Prix of the Municipal Museum of Györ, Hungary. 2007 Grand Prix, Biennial international of Print, Acqui Terme. Italy. Grand Prix, Ural Print Triennial, Russia. Grand Prix Leonardo Sciascia "Ama¬teur d’Estampes", Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy. 2009 Grand Prix, 2nd International Triennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand. Internazionale D’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois- Rivières, Quèbec, Canada. ( Purchase Prize) 2011 16th Space International Print Biennial Biennial, Seoul, Korea (Purchase Prize). 2015 "Giuseppe Maestri" Prize, Museo Civico delle Cappuccine, Bagnacavallo (Ra), Italy. 2019 7TH Guanlan International Print Biennial of Printing,(honorary work), Guanlan, China.