BRUVEL
CONQUERING THE MAZE
Stacked and painted wood sticks, 84x79x74cm | 33x31x29in
EARTH AND NIGHT
Stacked and painted wood sticks, 76x76x33cm | 30x30x13in
IN THE CITY
Stacked and painted wood sticks, 46x41x24cm | 18x16x9.5in
MASK #275
Stacked wooden sticks with pigmented wood stain, 76x76x31cm | 30x30x12in
MYSTIC
Stacked and painted wood sticks, 76x76x43cm | 30x30x17in
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Gil Bruvel is an artist focused on three-dimensional
representation, born in Sydney, Australia, in 1959, from French parents. He
grew up in the south of France, but currently lives in Wimberley, Texas.
After a long period of training in his father’s cabinet-making business, he
attended a prestigious restoration workshop in the city of Chateaurenard, in France.
This allowed him to master many high-level craft techniques and to work easily
with many types of materials and forms. Gil creates sculptures in bronze, wood,
steel, but also furniture design, having as reference points architects such as
Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Lebbeus Woods.
In his artistic career, Bruvel was influenced by Surrealist
artists such as Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and Giorgio De Chirico, especially in
his initial phase, in search of something deeper than reality, trying to escape
from it.
Then he focused on the human condition, the functioning of the mind and
meditation, thus trying to grasp the different dimensions of reality and its
multiple perspectives.
His works portray human faces, formed by many colored wooden shafts, positioned
at different depths, thus creating continuous geometric shapes, with a dialogue
between full and empty spaces represented by the breaks of lines and shapes.
According to the artist the so geometric and pixelated contours represent the
neural paths; the nuanced color, instead, is the interconnection between the different
human minds; while the charred wood is the result of the natural phenomena that
shape everything.
Gil Bruvel is represented by galleries all over the
world: in the United States, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, China,
Qatar, United Arab Emirates and South Africa.
Since 1988 he has participated in numerous solo and collective exhibitions in
the United States, Europe and Asia.
He has won many awards, among which the most prestigious is the bronze medal
awarded in 1987 by the
Palais des Congres
in Paris at the age of only 28
years old.
When you are creating art, it is good to develop your intent about what it is you're trying to express. If it doesn't make me feel anything, how can I expect someone else to feel something?