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Grisha Bruskin
Russian artist
Grisha Bruskin (born October 21, 1945)[1] is a Russian artist known as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker.
He was born in Moscow. Between 1963 and 1968, he studied at the Moscow Textile Institute (Art Department). In 1969, he became a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR. Bruskin's participation in the famous Sotheby's auction in Moscow (1988) brought him worldwide fame when his piece Fundamental Lexicon was sold for a record price.
He relocated to New York in 1988. In 1999, at the invitation of the German government and as a representative of Russia, Bruskin created a monumental triptych, Life Above All, for the reconstructed Reichstag in Berlin. In 2001 he published a memoir-style book, Past Imperfect. In 2012 he received the Kandinsky Prize in the "Project of the Year" category, for his project, H-Hour. Bruskin lives and works in New York and Moscow. He is one of the best-known and most successful contemporary artis
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Born in 1945, the Russian artist Grisha Bruskin graduated from the Art Department at the Moscow Textile Institute in 1968. As a member of the Soviet Artists' Union, he staged several controversial exhibitions, most of which were closed down by the Soviet authorities. Bruskin immigrated to his current home, New York City, in 1989.
Refusing to adhere to the government-sanctioned style of Socialist Realism, Bruskin became a major figure in the Soviet Non-Conformist Art movement, dedicating himself to the research and presentation of his Jewish heritage and its associated mythologies, mysticism, and sacred texts. Bruskin's work juxtaposes this powerful visual vocabulary of Judaic imagery and ord with symbolic remnants of the now dissolved Soviet Union. In Alefbet (1984) and Alefbet-Lexicon (1987), his most reknown painting series, Bruskin combines Hasidic text, figures in religious uniform and a slew of Jewish mystical symbols to produce an image struktur. Bruskin's prints
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Grisha Bruskin
Born to the family of a professor engineer, Bruskin graduated in 1968 from the department of decorative and applied arts of the Moscow Textile Institute. He joined the Union of Artists USSR the following year. He embarked on a successful career in the liberal wing of the official Union of Artists. A repeating subject of this paintings in that period was a surreal motif of sculptures coming alive and stepping down from their pedestals.
In 1987, Bruskin grew close to the circle of Conceptual and Sots artists—Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov, Lev Rubinstein, Boris Orlov, and Rostislav Lebedev. He participated in their shows at Kashirka, a regional exhibition hall on the southern outskirts of Moscow, where free art was shown in the Perestroika era. An amazing and unexpected success came to Bruskin in 1988, determining the course of his career and fate. His “Fundamental Lexicon” was sold for a record price at the first, pilot Sotheby’s auction in Mosco