David Bruce
« A limited range of vibrant colors, simple and unifying forms, and whimsical staging: I embrace the boldness of the joyful energy that infuses my compositions for an artistic practice that prioritizes pleasure and wonder.»
David Bruce was born in 1977 in the Paris region. Self-taught, he discovered art as a breathtaking and instinctive experience through graffiti, driven by the excitement of applying his visual identity to mobile media, especially trains, from which he reports the photos as trophies. This is a practice he continues to practice occasionally with friends, without premeditation, as a game of gentlemen vandals, but it is now in the studio that he expresses his artistic singularity by developing a vibrant graphic style of acid-colored shapes and whimsical forms. On canvas, he composes pop versions of still life paintings, mixing improbable proportions, playing with false perspectives, associating oversized fruits, generational smileys, unifying logos, all of which are nods to the highly contemporary visual language that replaces words with stylized pictograms to convey joyful and resolutely optimistic impulses. Bananas and oranges return as pictorial gimmicks in vibrant and warm colors. The raindrops and balloons are all curved and playful shapes that enliven the canvases with a suggestive movement reminiscent of the gestural choreographies of urban culture.
L’The artist claims a décr marchéPopular and popular activityécomplexélike a sneer à l’austérité and to the snobisms that, according to him élofty’art d’a vocation premièThe land of pleasure and’éSelling to keep it for yourselfr of the burdens of our existence. David Bruce uses a palette of colorsès limitéWith its clear colors and playful use of simple and universal shapes, its work on circles and lines is truly unique.ïves l’has naturally led to the’attraction of undulating volumes, workillés on céjokes with silhouettesécaléis that’it rébefore dressing them in his signature colorful pictorial styleée. David Bruce had the privilegeège d’être sollicité by the cr boardéAtif of Nike, who had repéré his work on the r'sébuckets Social: an unexpected call that comes’is concreteétisé by a carte blanche collaboration for a capsule of three T-shirtsénow collectors.
Still on the move, enjoying artistic nomadism, David Bruce lives today’Today in Liège, where he has set up his workshop, after spending a few years in Berlin. Places that’he chooses for their creative scene a liberation from the too codified microcosms of the large, must-see squares of the market’Art. David Bruce's compositions, stubbornly mischievous and carefree, are vibrant and full of energy.’a playful and joyful aesthetic that illuminates our daily lives’a solar energy.
