Bruno Zupan

Artist Information

Bruno Zupan, born in Slovenia in 1939, has spent his life in the pursuit of light. Upon completing his studies in Zagreb, Croatia, he immigrated to Paris in 1962 where he enjoyed la vie boheme whilst finding his artistic voice. In 1964, he traveled to the United States and became an American citizen in 1969.

Preferring to paint en plein air, rather than in his studio, he has frequented locations such as Mallorca, Venice, and Paris, when choosing places that sustain his love and quest for beautiful light. It does not matter if he is depicting a bucolic vista, the primal growth of flowers upon a stucco wall, hackneyed footprints on an old dirt path, or the golden hues of a Venetian sunset. All of these places owe their beautiful renderings to Bruno’s observance of light and how he manifests his deep emotional relationship with each subject.

His freedom of expression is perhaps best described by art critic Ed McCormack, who states “The real magic is in the paint surface itself, with its energetic bravura strokes, splashes, splatters, and drips forming a unified statement, as active, alive, and visually autonomous as an Abstract Expressionist work by de Kooning or Diebenkorn – yet simultaneously evoking the world outside the canvas. Among contemporary painters, Bruno Zupan alone possesses the singular sensibility to strike such a perfect balance between surface and subject, between a convincing pictorial lyricism and the matter-of-fact materiality that is the even larger truth and triumph of the most advanced modern art”.

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