St. Petersburg
At 50, Yury Brusovany can trace his roots to the family of Samoilov actors in the early 19th Century, some of whom were contemporaries of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy and Karl Brulov. Yury Brusovany started painting from early childhood. In 1962 he joined the Secondary School of Arts at the Academy of Arts. He graduated in 1968. From 1970 to 1975 he studied at the Mukhina College for Arts and Production in Leningrad specializing in monumental and decorative painting. Brusovany rejected the routine success of academic artists, having refused the membership in the State Union of Artists. He was thus on a path of prosecution from the communist party. Being a fierce antagonist of socialist realism, he was harrassed by the authorities. He also ran into trouble with the party when he studied the Bible and Hebrew and Jewish culture.
He took part in the exhibitions of "left" artists in 1982, 1984, 1986 and 1988.
In I985 he had his first personal exhibition in the Palace of Youth in Leningrad.
In 1988 the artist participated in exhibitions of Free Russian Modern Arts Fund in Germany.
In 1989 his works were exhibited in Goettingen (Germany) and in Stockholm.
In 1990 his album "Voices and Shadows" was published by the Soviet Arts Fund.
In 1991, 99 works by Brusovany were displayed at the personal exhibition
in Smolny cathedral in St. Petersburg.
Brusovany's paintings can now be found in private collections
in France, USA, Japan, Germany, Israel, Sweden and England.
Starting from 1978 the artist works on the concept of trans-realism,
combining modern acrylic techniques with the artistic manner of the old masters.
The artist creates multi-layer and multi-dimensional spaces on canvas where his realistic,
sensual images become metaphoric.
The transparent watery colours allow, unlike oil, to give a feeling of transparent reality.
Transrealism will not show a tree but the "theme" of a tree, where the tree's drama
will be acted in an array of cues.
A millenium and an instant are the coordinates of transrealism.
An artistic image belongs to past, present and future simultaneously.
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