Exhibition William Bruya in the Russian Museum

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In the Marble Palace Russian Museum 25.06 exhibition opens one of the famous contemporary abstract artists of Russian origin, William Bruya.
Here's the link http://rusmuseum.ru/exhib/lenta/exhibition2009/bruyi/

Bruj William
r.1946
While studying in high school, entered the School of Fine Arts. In 1959 the young artist to exhibit his works in his apartment in Leningrad. In 1961, organized by the engraving shop as an apprentice, making acquaintance with the leading artists of the formalists-60-ies. In 1963 he began working with abstraction. In 1969, undertook the publication (in 9 copies) of the book «EX ADVERSO» - a collection of engravings, supplemented by text, performed manually. In 1965-1970 is exhibited in the semi-official Gallery Shop Artists and group exhibitions of artists of Leningrad. In 1971 he moved to Paris, is exhibited in the Cite Internationale des Arts, Anton Meyer Gallery in Geneva. In the same year he met with Alex Liberman, art director of Vogue magazine in New York, who becomes his patron and enters it in terms of the artistic elite of New York. In 1973 creates a series of works «Unified Fields». Gugenheim Museum in New York, the artist gets a job in this series, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 4 works. In 1975-1977 Norton Dotzh bought for his informal Museum of Russian Art more than 30 papers and during the 80's has organized several exhibitions with the participation of these paintings. In 1973-1983 for the young artist are coming golden age. It is exposed in one of the most prestigious modern art galleries in New York Andre Emmerich, working in the loft in Manhattan and lives between Paris and New York. In 1985-2002 mayor of Paris has provided the artist studio in front of the Pompidou Center.
Currently William Bruj lives and works in his estate in Normandy.

reference to his interview:
http://www.ng.ru/saturday/2005-04-15/15_bruy.html
http://www.eg.ru/daily/melochi/7265/


Here are photos of the opening and a celebratory banquet, where we were invited as sponsors of the exhibition catalog. It was very "kontemporari" in St. Petersburg - on the one hand a little tradition (skushnovato), but on the other hand, pleasantly surprised by the St. Petersburg beau monde complete lack of glamor, a converted women and in general anything intrusive. Before the opening of St. Petersburg wanted to invite a few customers still a banquet at the Imperial Hall of the Marble Palace and was written by "Black Tie", but crossed it was not possible, but it would have been the last meeting with my "serious fellow - not everyone is such a public stand : shy: