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Anthology

Publisher: Palace Editions, 2008
Jacket, 276 pages
ISBN 3-935298-00-5
Coated Paper, Colored illyustratsii.format 25h31sm.
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"The work of the artist Grisha Bruskin, we face two issues. One of them is connected with the myth of Judaism. The other - the Communist myth.

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The works of artists - paintings and sculptures - images of phantom, emerging as if from sleep, leaving memories or resurrected in memory of the depths of consciousness. The characters of his paintings and sculpture groups are enclosed in the envelope of those plastic forms that are so familiar to generations Bruskin. At the time of his childhood in parks and squares of cities, towns throughout Russia (then Soviet Union) were plaster figures of athletes, pioneers, heroes, usually ugly, in its inexpressive. Their intention asexual, which has become the aesthetic of socialist realism module, replicated in different types of posters, textbooks and other so-called visual propaganda, invaded the life of every Soviet citizen. background, reinforcing the impact of such education, have been politicized and ideologized newspaper text, slogans, inscriptions.
Grisha Bruskin, like many artists, who grew up in the Soviet Union after the Second World War - from this life. His artistic mind, which denied imposed aesthetics, reconstructed shaped the world in which the usual modules used as archetypes, paradoxically transformed into its opposite. Characters Bruskin - this is not parody. Appeal to the stereotypes - is a technique that helps to concentrate, to focus the audience, put them in an atmosphere in which there are images created by the artist.
It was already in the history of world art (Bosch, Manerrists, Pre-Raphaelites). Accommodation past life, myths, ancient legends and stories through artistic transformation of established styles of previous eras - understandable and well-known phenomenon. Usually it appears in the history of art on the verge of the emergence of new directions.
Perhaps the work of Grisha Bruskin, brilliant graphics, masters of plastic forms, the artist-intellectual - is one of the bright reflections of the artistic mentality of the second half of XX century. Artworks Bruskin - metaphorical, regardless of the topic. They are laconic and expressive through seemingly simple, but bright plastic means.
Despite the social scheme, used by the artist, creativity Bruskin, formed in the atmosphere of Russia 1970-1980-s, - no specific time. His work is personal "code", which is characteristic only for Bruskin. The images created by the artist in painting, drawing, sculpture, porcelain, there is always a reflection, enriching the external stiffness and schematism his image, lyrical on the merits ".