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Oblong Contemporary Art Gallery
Lucca / Dubai
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Gil Bruvel
(
Australian/French
, born 1959)
Gil Bruvel
From Water to Fire,
2023
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Gil Bruvel
Mask 204,
2023
Price on Request
Gil Bruvel
Mask 203,
2023
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Artist. Sculptor. Creative Force. Dreamer. Visionary. Craftsman. Aesthete. The first seven of many monikers that come to mind when considering the force of will that is contained in the artwork and mind of the artist, Gil Bruvel.
Operating seamlessly between the new art technology that he designs with and historical practices in which he is well-versed, Gil Bruvel embodies the modern Renaissance man. Bruvel’s visions are rooted in his training but shine brilliant with his growth as an artistic revolutionary. Gil Bruvel’s most recent art collections consist of the Bending the Lines series, the Flow series, the Cubist series, his functional art collection, the chess boards and his evocative paintings: all embracing a sense of meditative serenity. Strong but fluid, his artwork speaks to his surrounding environments, his love for the beauty of human form and his sense of geometric experimentation.
This organic conversation not only reflects the otherworldliness of a thinking artist, but grants insight to a thriving communicative collaboration with each piece. His team of assistants, casters, and friends all seem to be integrated with his process while maintaining a singular voice that could only come from Gil Bruvel himself. Adapting with the world around him, his artwork has reached the eyes of many, traveling out into the world, adorning every level of class and institution.
As a child he began expressing himself through drawing and painting. Born of French parents in Australia in 1959, Bruvel was raised in southern France. His father’s cabinetmaking shop became a classroom, Gil learning early on about precision and three-dimensional design by carving and creating in wood. As a young teen he was accepted into a respected art restoration workshop, where he received an intensive hands-on education in art techniques and history. He began visiting the United States in the mid-1980s, had his first American solo show in Laguna Beach, Ca. in 1988, and settled in this country in 1990.
Since then, Bruvel has passionately pursued an organic surge of artistic expression through a range of mediums and forms. Among them: painting, graphite pencil, bronze-casting, functional furniture, mixed media, public sculpture, and works in stainless steel. “I find continual and ever-changing inspiration in the constant observation of the infinite layers within my surroundings,” Bruvel says. “If there is an intention to understand and completely open oneself up to what is being observed, then patterns start to define themselves and intuitively assemble into interesting pieces of artwork.”
Having a deep understanding of art history, it is inevitable that certain artists influenced and inspired Bruvel’s approach. Early on these tended to be the surrealists, including Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, and Giorgio de Chirico. Later, painters such as Francis Bacon and Robert Matta were among the sparks that fired his imaginative flame. “When I was a young artist it was all about the impulse, instincts, the single-minded vision to create something mostly from feelings and images popping into my mind.”
These days Bruvel is particularly drawn to the originality and sculptural vision of certain architects, among them, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Lebbeus Woods. Still, he moves effortlessly from one medium to the next, with his perception and intuitive ability to retain ephemeral images as they flicker through his sensory, emotional, and intellectual fields. For Gil, the act of creating art is synonymous with the discovery of such images, while seeking to translate ephemeral qualities of human experience into solid form. The sensation of wind across the skin or the exquisitely subtle energy arc that bridges distance, either immeasurably small or overwhelmingly vast; seemingly random patterns that emerge and coalesce.
Flow Series
During his more than thirty-year career, Gil Bruvel has passionately followed an ever-changing, organic flow of artistic expression as it has moved through a series of mediums and forms. Each one is a reflection of the artist’s aesthetic sensibility and thoughtful perspective at the time, while continuously remaining open to the inner nudges inherent in a truly creative life. And in each approach—from surrealist-inspired and fantastical imagery to three-dimensional functional and sculptural art, to the current Flow series—he has drawn on threads of creative stimulus and artistic mastery that began very early on.
With the Flow series, Bruvel continues to celebrate the imaginative and the real, yet here his vision seems to penetrate the veil of material form. These striking, evocative sculptures, comprised of graceful sinuous ribbons of cast stainless steel, reveal an essential underlying fluidity that exists simultaneously within the physical, quantum, and metaphoric realms. Bruvel’s ribbons of energy may flow in parallel streams, yet they convey the subtle and complex human intersections of beauty and pain, inner and outer, the ephemeral and the eternal now.
Exhibitions
2019
Art Market San Francisco Art Fair, Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018
Art Market San Francisco Art Fair, Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
Art Market San Francisco Art Fair, Chloe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Venice Art Biennale, Giardini and Arsenale, Italy
2016
Chloe Gallery, Color / Shape / Form , San Francisco, CA Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston TX Art Aspen, Aspen, CO Art Southampton, Water Mill, NY
2015
Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX Art Paris, Paris France
2013
Chloe Gallery, Wimberley, TX Jan Kossen Contemporary, Art Basel Miami, FL Re-Art/Marcel Salome, Dreamscapes Exhibition, Viechtach, Germany
2011
Dolce Gallery, Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, CO Fantasmus Art, Hilleroed Bibliotek, Denmark
2010
St. George Cathedral, Perth, Australia
2008
Fantasmus, Copenhagen, Denmark “The Hotel Show,” Ex One/Metaltec Innovations, Dubai Pageant of the Masters, Laguna Beach, CA Sculpture in the Park, “23rd Annual Exhibition,” Loveland, CO
2007
Anchorage Museum of History & Fine Art, Planes, Trains and Automobiles: A History of Transportation in America, AK De Gouden Phoenix, Venus & the Female Intuition, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Princesse de Kiev, Venus & the Female Intuition, Nice, France
1976
Musée des Baux-de-Provence, France, solo show
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