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What do Bruno DaVenzia and Bruce G. Newman have in common? Everything but the name.
The legend of Bruno DaVenzia:
Born on a working farm in the Patagonian region near Argentina (1949) , Bruno Da Venzia, emigrated to Buenos Aires (1963) for years of classic education and artistic studies. Da Venzia’s early work (pre1973) is in Colombian, Brazilian and Uruguayan collections and private museums. After a stint with the Urbanista movement for social reform in Uruguay the artist emigrated to the soviet state to study at the Patrice Lumumba University, in Moscow.
The dualities of Moscow caused Da Venzia‘s immediate disenchantment with the realities of soviet life and he began a clandestine career of populist modern work. This, pre-perestroika work was political in nature, painted under the name “Boris Natanovitz”. The controversy erupted in the intellectual circles, causing too much attention by the “apparatchik” and earned the artist a trip east for an adjustment period in the gulags.
His work can be found at the museum dedicated to the works of former prisoners at The State Museum for Collective Activities for Reeducation in Syktyvkar, Komi Republic,. . In these earlier works, Da Venzia is noted for making his own paints from materials available in the prison camps including plants, human and animal materials as well as minerals and earths constructed during his detainment in the work gulags of the former Soviet state. This work was highly sought out by European collections.
Da Venzia, as a result of Glasnost and Perestroika movements, was released from prison. The artist moved as far west as he could. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the artist chose to remain in his home in the former occupied satellite state of Estonia.
The Artist is currently visiting the United States for treatment of conditions developed while incarcerated. All of his later works and those produced in the United States are from commercially available supplies due to time constraints.
The Truth behind the legend:
Bruce Newman has painted under the names Boris Natanovitch and Bruno DaVenzia for the last forty years.
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More images and stories are forthcoming.
The artist can be contacted:
Bruce Newman
4003 Tilly Mill Road
Doraville, Ga. 30350 USA
tel 678.860.3434
brucenewman@bellsouth.net
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