Misha Brusilovsky

Brusilovsky was born in Kiev in 1931. Having graduated from the Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad, he was assigned a job in Sverdlovsk where he subsequently lived and worked – with the exception of time spent in Paris and NYC – for more than five decades. Misha Brusilovsky was one of the few Russian artists of the latter half of the 20th century to gain international recognition. His 1918 was exhibited at the 1966 Venice Biennale, and the one-man show held in 1989 in Paris received wide acclaim.

Brusilovsky is immediately recognisable for his style, capable of transforming the mundane into a parable and a historic fact into a global myth. His topics range from the tumultuous history of the 20th century to Bible stories, from ancient mythology to everyday life observed from some point deep in historical time. If one were to judge the artist by his paintings merging the past, the present, and the future in strange authenticity, it would be no far stretch to call him a talented stalker of the loops and labyrinths of time.