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“Food for Thought: A European cookbook”
I am pleased to announce my upcoming exhibition in the headquarters of the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels from November 05 to November 30, 2018.

This exhibition features a series of oil canvas paintings. Taking the form of an “illustrated cookbook”, the exhibition offers viewers a journey through the different recipes of Europe and its purpose is to showcase Europe’s different food cultures, on the one hand, and the diversity and similarity found in European food culture, on the other.

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Exhibition  April 26 – May 12 1 2018

Le Soleil sur la Place – Galerie Franck Lassange, Lyon, France

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“STORYBOARDS” – Bruce Thurman

Exhibition April 2 – May 1 2016 (vernissage April 1 @ 19hrs)
Exposition du 2 avril au 1er mai 2016 (vernissage le 1er avril à 19h)
Palais de l’Archevêché – Place de la République à Arles, France

Take an evocative tour of the Bruce Thurman Retrospective in Arles, France

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New York artist Bruce Thurman to exhibit in Arles – April 2016

The French-American artist Bruce Thurman will be showing over 50 of his works, many for the first time, in a major one-man show in Arles in April 2016. This museum level show is curated and sponsored by the Service de la Culture of the city of Arles, France.

This exhibition titled “STORYBOARDS” brings together the many different directions Thurman’s work has taken over the years, from the miniature diptych-like Notebooks and referential revisits of classical art, to the larger 20th century political, social, and pop-cultural “Deconstructions.” The different subjects that Thurman revisits and refits into his painting are very much part of the collective subconscious of our times and shared culture.

“My Storyboards are narratives, fragmented dramas, anecdotes, “History Paintings” filled with people, objects, places, and scenes. They are not illustrations of a story but the story itself. Like a book, my paintings are meant to be read“. Bruce Thurman

L’artiste new yorkais Bruce Thurman expose à Arles en avril 2016

L’artiste franco-américain Bruce Thurman présente à Arles une exposition majeure qui réunit une cinquantaine d’œuvres, dont plusieurs tableaux récents encore jamais présentés publiquement.

Cette exposition baptisée “STORYBOARDS” rassemble les thèmes récurrents du travail de Bruce Thurman ainsi que ses supports de prédilection: de la toile grand format au carnet de croquis. Ses sources d’inspiration, comme les grands mouvements politiques du 20e siècle, la pop-culture mais aussi les grandes œuvres de l’histoire de l’Art, sont revisités, reformatés presque, par le peintre. Les images inscrites dans la mémoire collective prennent une autre dimension sous le pinceau de Bruce Thurman et donc sous le regard du spectateur.

“Mes Storyboards sont des histoires, des fragments d’anecdotes avec personnages et décors, avec sujets et drames, des racontars… Ce ne sont pas des illustrations mais plutôt des récits en images autour de certains sujets de prédilection”. Bruce Thurman

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“KOUFRA” – (lobby painting for advertising agency Strasbourg) – 59″ x 59″ (150 x 150cm) – oil on linen – 1989 – acquired 2014 by Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de la Ville de Strasbourg , France