Artist Gil Bruvel to Showcase Visionary Artworks at Burning Man 2023
Visionary artist Gil Bruvel is thrilled to announce his participation in the highly anticipated Burning Man event, set to take place from August 27 to September 4, 2023, in the breathtaking Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Bruvel will present a stunning collection of sculptures, including his acclaimed masterpieces Continuum, Time Traveler #2, and Time Traveler #4. This year, Bruvel will be hosted by the esteemed Rippers Row Camp, adding an extra layer of excitement to his participation.
Burning Man is renowned worldwide for its celebration of radical self-expression, art, and community. It serves as the perfect stage for Bruvel's visionary sculptures, which seamlessly blend fluidity, spirituality, and innovation. Each sculpture invites viewers to explore their own consciousness and discover profound connections within themselves and the world around them.
In addition to the extraordinary sculptures, Gil Bruvel will introduce two electronic tricycles adorned with his captivating and unique art pieces. These mobile artworks will allow participants to engage with the artist's vision in a dynamic and interactive manner. As Bruvel cruises through the Playa, the trikes will become conduits for meaningful encounters, inviting individuals to connect with his art on a personal level.
"I am honored and exhilarated to be part of Burning Man 2023," said Gil Bruvel. "The event's ethos of self-expression and artistic exploration aligns perfectly with my own artistic philosophy. I am excited to share my sculptures and engage with the participants, offering them a transformative experience through my art."
Gil Bruvel's participation in Burning Man 2023 promises to be a highlight of this year's event. His sculptures and interactive trikes will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression on attendees, inspiring conversations, introspection, and a profound sense of connection.
My Modern Met - August 2023
Colorful Wooden “Pixels” Converge To Create Enigmatic Face Masks
By Margherita Cole on August 17, 2023
Instead of carving a sculpture from one material, Gil Bruvel slowly builds his masterpieces with numerous parts. The Texas-based artist's ongoing project The Mask Series features large-scale sculptures of human faces, all of which are made from assembling colored wooden blocks of varying sizes.
From afar, these portraits appear highly realistic, but the closer you are to the piece, the more pixelated it becomes. Bruvel achieves an impressive level of detail by mixing a range of different-sized wooden pieces. Larger blocks make up the periphery of the mask, while smaller and finer pieces are used to create the eyes, nose, and lips. Click HERE for more
Memorial Lifestyle Magazine - January 2023
Pushing the Limits, By Gabi De la Rosa
Gil Bruvel is a Texas-based sculptor known for his large-scale sculptures depicting flowing lines with rigid materials. His sculptures, seen in the United States and internationally in China and Europe, explore the juxtaposition between fluidity and rigidity. His process explores the possibility of using materials in unexpected ways. Click HERE for more
Juxtapoz Magazine - Winter Issue 2023
Gil Bruvel is a surrealist craftsman, he makes fantasies by hand. Tinkering in his father’s cabinet-making business, and later in their family restoration workshop, might have logically taken Bruvel into the realm of interior design, but he has managed to carve out a unique space for himself in the firmament of fine art. Read full article HERE
THESE AMAZING SCULPTURES ARE MADE WITH HUNDREDS OF BURNT WOODEN STICKS
World Open News, May 2, 2022
Sculptor Gil Bruvel creates incredible sculptures using thousands of wooden sticks. His works, which portray serene faces, are currently on display at Galerie Montmartre, as part of the Face to Face exhibition, and will be until May 14, 2022.
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10 Burnt Wood Sticks Sculptures Created By This Artist That Shows Serene Pixelated Faces
DeMilked - April 25, 2022
ARTIST CREATES SERENE FACES FROM THOUSANDS OF WOOD STICKS
My Modern Met - April 21, 2022
By Jessica Stewart
GIL BRUVEL GOES FACE TO FACE IN PARIS
Juxtapoz Magazine, April 13, 2022
ARCS AND PATHWAYS OF HUMAN POTENTIAL IN THE SCULPTURE OF GIL BRUVEL
By Sarah Muehlbauer
CodaMagazine: Transforming Spaces
April 2022 Issue
An Interview With Gil Bruvel
We try and fail until we get it right. Failure is essential in crystallizing and improving on our initial ideas. There is a great complexity to us and to all that surrounds us, which is not accessible unless we are willing to move beyond physicality and into the deeper layers of our consciousness. Therein lies an experience that is to be felt, rather than described or rationalized. The challenge as an artist is to give it a non-verbal expression through the use of form, patterns and color. — Gil Bruvel
Gil Bruvel Stars in "Diffusion/Cohesion"
Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery // September 10, 2021 - November 10, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine - November 5, 2021
Diffusion/Cohesion seeks to examine the role these opposing, yet interconnected forces play in our human experience, both within the context of our globally altered reality and beyond. Since the onset of the pandemic, both dynamics have had a profound impact on our individual and group experiences. Society has undergone a historically unprecedented degree of physical separation and isolation—diffusion—in order to slow the spread of the pandemic. At the same time, modern advances in digital technology have allowed us to sustainably function as socially-distant communities by enabling remote connection and collaboration—cohesion—with one another through the use of social media, online collaboration tools and video platforms. Yet, despite their virtues, these platforms provide virtual experiences that are by definition simulated.
MY MODERN MET
Soothing Pixelated Wood Sculptures Visualize the Calm of a Meditative Mind
By Emma Taggart on March 15, 2021
Those who practice meditation know how it can improve your mental health and evoke a sense of inner calm. Australian-born, French-raised artist Gil Bruvel explores these feelings of serenity with his ever-growing collection of wooden sculptures. Each large-scale, wall-mounted piece depicts a face with the subject’s eyes closed, seemingly deep in thought. Bruvel’s most recent works are “a reminder of what it looks like to be centered and at peace.”
SLATE GRAY GALLERY
Gil Bruvel carefully arranges pieces of wood, with startling faces emerging. However, Bruvel works in a wide scope of mediums, from metalworking, oil painting, and others. At Slate Gray Telluride, several new works from the "Bending the Lines" series are on display for the summer season.
MOMENTUM GALLERY OPENS AT 52 BROADWAY!
Following a two-year construction period, we are thrilled to be opening our two-floor, 15,000-square-foot gallery in a 100-year-old building in downtown Asheville's Broadway Arts District, located at 52 Broadway Street.
MEDITATIVE PORTRAITS MADE FROM WOODEN STICKS BY GIL BRUVEL
Different in shape and size, the sticks are burned, painted with subtle gradients, and then held in place with wood glue, causing the figures to appear pixelated and as a disparate grouping of squares and rectangles when viewed up close. From a distance, however, “that fragmentation reveals a coherent whole: a face arises from apparent chaos,” Bruvel says. Through their collated forms, the assemblages offer a visual metaphor for the complexity and contradiction that’s inherent to human beings.
MEDITATIVE FACES EMERGE FROM THE STAGGERED WOODEN STICKS FORMING ARTIST GIL BRUVEL'S SCULPTURES
Gil Bruvel (previously) has spent 40 years practicing vipassanā meditation, an introspective practice that invites judgment-free observation of the mind. The Australia-born artist infuses the philosophies of this decades-long ritual into his variegated sculptures as he forms a series of faces in deep thought. With eyes and mouths closed, the figures project serenity and calmness, serving as “a reminder of what it looks like to be centered and at peace,” Bruvel says of The Mask Series.
INTERIOR TREASURES OPENS OFFICE AT AL ASMAKH TOWER
Gil Bruvel's artwork, specifically three pieces from his Flow Series are included in the artwork located at the new luxury gallery in Qatar.
Marieux van den Broek, founder, and owner of Interior Treasures Design Group, said "to finalise a project to perfection, a very important addition is to have the most beautiful and creative art. We listen to our clients. We do not repeat things. Our job is to turn the most complex desires of our clients into reality, exceeding the expectations of even the most eccentric and demanding ones.” he said.
THIS SCULPTOR BUILDS WHAT'S GOING ON INSIDE OUR HEADS
PBS NEWS HOUR
The first clue that Gil Bruvel is preoccupied with what’s going on in our heads is the stainless steel human skull sitting outside his Texas home and studio.
Unlike the quintessential sun-bleached steer skull from Western lore, Bruvel’s sculpture is formed from ribbon-thick lines of steel that reflect the Texas rays, appearing to move while remaining perfectly still.
From that moment, walking into Bruvel’s home is a sensory overload. Lots of artwork patiently waits in rooms and hallways as he prepares for an upcoming gallery show. The array of materials — paints, pencils, acrylics, bronze, cardboard, and more — point to a creator with many different pursuits, and many different mediums.
COUNTRY MUSICIAN PAT GREEN INTERVIEWS GIL BRUVEL ON HIS NEW SERIES "BENDING THE LINES"
JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE
APRIL 2, 2019
Continuing in his Bending the Lines series, Gil Bruvel will be exhibiting a selection of artwork with Chloe Fine Arts at the Art Market San Francisco April 25 – 28th, 2019. To give some insight to the creative process that makes Gil Bruvel accessible, Pat Green, a three-time Grammy-nominated Texas musician and close friend to Gil joined him for lunch and an interview at Bruvels home.
COLORFUL PIXELATED WOOD SCULPTURES REVEAL COMPLEXITIES OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT
MY MODERN MET MAGAZINE BY JESSICA STEWART
JANUARY 31, 2019
Artist Gil Bruvel doesn’t confine himself to one method of producing creative work. Whether painting, sculpting, or creating functional art, Bruvel’s creative energy flows through each of his pieces. For his Bending the Lines series, the Australian-born, French-raised artist uses simple materials to express complex metaphors.
PIXELATED WOODEN FACES BY GIL BRUVEL REVEAL ABSTRACT COLOR EXPLORATIONS WHEN EXHIBITED IN VERSO
COLOSSAL
JANUARY 24, 2019
For his unusual figurative sculptures artist Gil Bruvel splits lengths of lumber into manageable sticks which he arranges and paints in bright shades of blues, greens, and reds. On one side, the wooden pieces configure into faces at rest in peaceful expressions, while on the reverse they remain jumbled and abstract. The pixelated sculptures appear like sophisticated pieces of three-dimensional pin art that reveal permanent images of faces, instead of temporary impressions of a nose or hand.
GIL BRUVEL’S EMERGING, SCULPTURAL FACES
HI FRUCTOSE MAGAZINE BY ANDY SMITH
JANUARY 23, 2019
In recent work, Gil Bruvel carefully arranges pieces of wood, with startling faces emerging. This is just one example of the sculptor’s work, which also spans metalworking, oil painting, and several other mediums. The artist’s larger sculptures, in particular, tend to render the human head in unexpected ways.
HEADS WILL TURN FOR GIL BRUVEL'S “BENDING THE LINES” @ LA ART SHOW MODERN & CONTEMPORARY, 2019
JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE
JANUARY 16, 2019
Wood. Paint. Meditative process. The latest series by Gil Bruvel has seen a shift in his artistic unmaterial of choice. This comes with no surprise from this innovative artist, who is consistently pushing his artwork to new heights. Containing large wall sculptures and pixelated forms, this series has been well received. With his artistic representation by Frederic Got Gallery, this series was presented and sold at Art CONTEXT and Art MIAMI in December 2018 and the Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary in early January 2019. The individuality that exists within each artwork of Bending the Lines can be accredited to both the material and Bruvel’s precise hand.
RUSSELL COLLECTION FINE ART GALLERY
JULY 3, 2018
Gil Bruvel is proud to announce his association with the Russell Collection Fine Art Gallery in Austin, Texas. Russell Collection is a world-class gallery filled with museum quality art who set out to offer something different to the serious art collector in central Texas.
JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE - BENDING THE LINES
MARCH 1, 2018
What has always impressed us about Gil Bruvel is his ability to push the limits. Not only on the medium he is working with, which, like what he showed at the Juxtapoz Clubhouse in Miami were stainless steel sculptures, but just testing the limits of how he approaches new materials and narratives in his work. His newest solo show, Bending the Lines, which opens at Laura Rathe Fine Art in Houston on March 21st, sees the artist working with wood and exploring the boundaries of the material in a new series of almost painting-like-sculptures.
BASEL HOUSE MURAL FESTIVAL
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2017
Basel House is the one place during Art Basel Week where hip art and eclectic music meet. Over the past few years Basel House has become known as the spot where local working artists come to decompress and listen to music. Inevitably they start painting, partying and things get interesting. This year we return to our home in the Wynwood Art District with our takeover of the Old RC Cola Plant and Surrounding Streets, including nightly music and live art during Miami Art Basel Week.
GIL BRUVEL EXPLORES THE CREATION OF THE LARGEST CORSO IN THE WORLD
JUXTAPOSE MAGAZINE
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
CORSO ZUNDERT is a film about the people of Zundert,a village in the South of Holland, who collaborate to create extravagant, flower-covered floats on a monumental scale for “the largest corso in the world.” The short film follows artist Gil Bruvel as he discovers this unique community and what drives them to carry on this 80-year tradition of collaboration with their neighbors to create spectacular art for art's sake.
PRESENTING GIL BRUVEL’S “CORSO ZUNDERT,” A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE WORLD’S LARGEST FLOWER PARADE
BY COLOSSAL
AUGUST 28, 2017
Premiering on Colossal, CORSO ZUNDERT is a film about the people of Zundert — a village in the South of Holland — who collaborate to create extravagant, flower-covered floats on a monumental scale for “the largest corso in the world.” The short film follows award-winning artist Gil Bruvel as he discovers this unique community and what drives them to carry on this 80-year tradition of collaboration with their neighbors to create spectacular art for art’s sake.
THE COOLEST ARTWORKS FROM ART NY AND CONTEXT
BY HOMEDIT INTERIOR DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
JUNE 2017
Since we are suckers for amazing sculpture, this piece by Gil Bruvel is at the top of our list. Called “Flowing,” the piece represents sharing life together and being lost in our own private worlds at the same time. The Australian-born, French-raised artist works using modern technologies like 3D modeling and old-world practices like metal casting to create his amazing works.
INTRODUCING FLOW SERIES: FUNCTIONAL ART
AUGUST 1, 2016
Gil Bruvel, the renowned multidisciplinary artist based in Texas, has created a new chapter of his seminal Flow Series sculptures. Evolving from organic form and inspired by nature, this body of patina bronze castings has ranged from ethereal representations of human or animal forms to abstract patterns and material objects. Now he turns his talents and collection to design, with a limited edition series of functional fixtures created in the same visionary vein. This master craftsman now uses his gift of manipulating form into practical pieces of furniture, namely the Flow Series: Functional Art.
2016 TEXAS NATIONAL GOLF TOURNAMENT - PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA
SPONSORED BY THE PAT GREEN FOUNDATION
AUGUST 4 - 7, 2016
Gil Bruvel is proud to support The Pat Green Foundation and will be in attendance at this year's Texas National Golf Tournament in Pebble Beach, California. The Texas National Golf Tournament is the brain child of recording artist Pat Green, a long time supporter of worthy charities and good works.
ART SOUTHAMPTON - JULY 2016
JULY 7 - 11, 2016
Gil Bruvel in attendance at Art Southampton, the most important destination for acquiring the finest investment quality works of contemporary and modern art along with design.
CORSO ZUNDERT 2016
The Netherlands
SEPTEMBER 2-5, 2016
I am honored to announce the news that I will attend Corso Zundert in the Netherlands to share in this annual celebration of artistry. This festival is the largest flower parade and competition of its kind in the world, marking the incredible annual blooms of local dahlias since 1936. My sculptural work, specifically the Flow Series, was the key inspiration behind one of the floats entitled "Seized By The Wind" which will be constructed throughout the summer and then adorned with thousands of flowers for this year's event.
LUXE. INTERIORS + DESIGN - HOUSTON
12/15/15
Gil's sculpture, Rain shown in the most recent issue of Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine in stores and on line now!
CODAMAGAZINE: THE HUMAN FORM
THE WELL, WORLD VISION'S WATER WARRIOR AWARD
OCTOBER, 2015
Gil Bruvel's The Well is featured in and on the cover of this month's CODAmagazine.
AN ART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY 2015
ART PRIZE 2015, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Gil Bruvel is proud to announce that his sculpture The Wind is featured on the cover of this year's An Art Prize Anthology for 2015. The book is on sale now at the Grand Rapids Museum. The Wind was a finalist in Art Prize 2014.
THE WELL
WORLD VISION'S WATER WARRIOR AWARD
8/27/15
We proudly announce that Gil Bruvel has been selected by World Vision to be the creator of their Water Warrior Award to be presented to their delegated major donors. His design was chosen from many other artist entries as the best expression of World Vision’s altruistic efforts.
OCTAVIA GALLERY, NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA
SYMMETRIC EQUIVALENCE - OPENING AUGUST 1ST 2015
06/03/2015
Gil Bruvel is proud to announce an upcoming show at Octavia Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana. The opening will be August 1st 2015
GETENROU
BY MASAKAZU ISHIGURO
APRIL, 2015
A Japanese murder mystery comic book released in April 2015 featuring Rain of the Flow Series on it's cover.
AUSTIN'S NEW FINE ART HAVEN
VETTA MAGAZINE, AUSTIN/DECEMBER-JANUARY 2015
JANUARY, 2015
In her new space, Gallery 702, Kathryn Goodnite explores a wide range of tastes, shapes and sizes, to create a magically curated space for art....
For her recent event "Lyrical Art", a benefit for local music non-profit One World Theater, she sought the works of talented artists: Geoffrey Laurence, Mary Buck, Joseph Adolphe, George Krause, Winn Whitman and the incomparable Gil Bruvel.
VISIONARY ART BY GIL BRUVEL
WORLD OF DESIGNERS, POSTED BY DANNY IN ART
APRIL 20, 2014
During his more than thirty-year career, Gil Bruvel has passionately followed an ever-changing, organic flow of artistic expression as it has moved through a series of mediums and forms.
FLOWING SCULPTURES OF GIL BRUVEL, BY JENNIFER GORI
BEAUTIFUL BIZARRE
APRIL 2014
Gil Bruvel is a “Jack of all Trades” of the art world. Born in 1959 in Australia, he soon moved back to his roots in the South of France. The influences of the iconic landscapes and light of Provence soon led him to art studies, encouraged by his father who introduced him to wood craft.
FIGURATIVE SCULPTURES MADE OF STAINLESS STEEL RIBBONS
MY MODERN MET
MAY 2013
Texas-based sculptor Gil Bruvel manipulates ribbons of cast stainless steel to create spectacular figurative sculptures for his Flow series. Each form is energized with fluid, flowing lines of metal that appear all-at-once sturdy and fragile.
PERCEIVING THE FLOW: HUMAN FIGURES COMPOSED OF UNRAVELING STAINLESS STEEL RIBBONS BY GIL BRUVEL
COLOSSAL, BY CHRISTOPHER JOBSON
MAY 2013
Though cast from bands of stainless steel ribbons, these figurative sculptures by Texas-based artist Gil Bruvel seem more fluid than solid, as if the wind could simply blow them apart. The works above are all part of the artist’s Flow series that he says are meant to reveal “an essential underlying fluidity that exists simultaneously within the physical, quantum, and metaphoric realms.” Bruvel was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1959 and he began learning the basics of sculpting at the age of nine before embarking on an artist career that now spans nearly 40 years. If you’re in San Francisco next month you can catch Bruvel’s work at Chloe Gallery starting June 30th.
GOOOOD
FLOW SERIES - MONUMENTAL / GIL BRUVEL
Imagine a moment where breath, focus, movement, and being are so exquisitely synchronized there is no need for thought. The quintessence of true power and incomparable beauty are held in that glimmering instant, which paradoxically contains all the unfolding time required for each split-second decision, every perfect turn and move. An athlete performs, a driver surges to the front of the pack, an artist creates—and the mundane, complex world disappears. Nothing exists but the pure intensely of this shimmering moment outside of time. Then the spell is broken: The flag goes down and spectators resume their chatter; the artist rinses his brushes and puts them away. But the ephemeral, unforgettable glimpse of brilliance remains. We caught its shine. We felt its magic. We were momentarily part of its magnificent flow.
