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 Nathan Brusovani combats visual mediocrity and challenges the boundaries of photography. His images are strong personal statements but he aims to inspire viewers to seek out their own "human- scapes". |
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The Artist
Nathan Brusovani was born in 1956 in Leningrad and graduated in 1978 from Leningrad University with a Master's degree. While studying there he also completed a course in scientific photography and for the next eight years he studied photographic art under the influence of his elder brother, himself an artist. In 1987 Nathan received permission for emigration from Soviet Russia and came to Israel where he now lives with his wife and four children. Humanscapes As an artist, Nathan Brusovani wants to capture those elusive images that dreams are made of. His works emerge out of a form of human encounter and not a technical one. They are not photographic montages that are assembled from constituent elements, but the whole image made up of a number of layers, each one aiming to represent another side of the object, but never quite revealing their meaning. |
His photographic archive contains the seeds from which his images grow. Before starting the computer manipulation, he ponders this archive, seeking fresh and innovative juxtapositions that expand the possibilities of the initial subject matter and surpasses the boundaries of ordinary experience. He turns the process of image creation, from camera shoot to darkroom or computer manipulation, into a visual research lab a place for discovery, observation and meditation. Ultimately, he believes his task is to amaze the viewer.
It is important to him to maintain a continual open dialogue with his materials and process so that he is constantly questioning and in turn being questioned. Otherwise the photographic process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions and vitality of the medium. The final result must be as if one theme shines through another, acquiring fresh nuances while preserving and strengthening the traces of its origin, causing everything to be more real, more alive than in real life. |