Transcapes by Gil Bruvel

An Exploration of Form

Saturday, September 20th, 6:30 to 9:30 pm

Visionary Artist Gil Bruvel will make the Dallas, TX debut of his extraordinary visionary landscapes in Transcapes: An Exploration of Form at The Cedars Art Gallery (1114 S. Akard St). The show opens September 20, 2008, with a reception from 6:30-9:30pm and runs until October 20th, 2008.

Bruvel’s work has been exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards. Transcapes focuses on the exceptional depth and range Bruvel’s art and his mastery in a number of mediums, including Fictional Art, Sculpture and Painting. His subjects are thoroughly modern and futuristic, and reveal figures and landscapes that are equally whimsical and surreal, thought-provoking and enigmatic.

Taking the idea that landscapes so often transform in the physical, emotional, psychological and physical world, Bruvel wanted to concentrate on how figures and motifs in his oil paintings would shift and grow when they were transformed into sculpture and functional art. The result is Transcapes, a solo exhibition featuring Functional Art, ranging from mixed media hand-crafted chess sets to unique furniture in bronze and wood, as well as Sculpture (bronze, stainless steel & mixed media), and Painting (oil & mixed media).

While Bruvel’s work resists classification, the artist refers to his style as “visionary.” His subjects are thoroughly modern and futuristic, and reveal figures and landscapes that are equally whimsical and surreal, thought-provoking and enigmatic. His says his work “focuses on uncovering how the conscious and unconscious minds work in tandem throughout the creative process.”

Bruvel cites his own intellectual curiosity and interest in “plumbing the world of ideas” as inspiration for not only the work itself, but its natural variety of forms. To this end, he says his studies of philosophy, psychology, anthropology, ancient cultures, mythology, and literature ground his creative process and provide inspiration for his subject matter. “As a thinker,” he says, “I have always has been a seeker. I work to uncover the mystery of the transformative process, what is engendered by growth and metamorphosis in the world of human experience, both conscious and unconscious.”

That Bruvel’s work seeks to give visual expression to these concepts is seen in the faces and figures emerging almost surreally from landscapes, coupled with the merging of physical and organic forms in his work to produce an amalgamation that is part human, part idea, part consciousness, and part spirit.

“Artists of Gil’s range are rare—he’s imitable, really,” says collector Dr. Daniel Libke. “He is able to transform whatever media he’s using and give it a kind of detail and mastery that is not only extraordinary, but exquisite.”

Bruvel has been exhibiting around the world since 1974 in places as diverse as Denmark, Dubai, England and France, Hungary, Japan, Monaco, The Netherlands, and Singapore, and across the US, from Arizona and California, to Hawaii, Florida and New York.

His work has received numerous awards and his collectors range from Fortune 500 CEOs and members of royal families to actors and rock stars.

Gil Bruvel’s work can viewed at www.bruvel.com. Additional information about the Transcapes exhibit is available at www.cedarsartgallery.com or by calling Gallery Owner and Curator, David Terry at 214-534-6347.

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