BRUSK
Biography
Cédric Kozluk, born in Lyon in 1976, is above all a lover of drawing. And it was in 1991 that this passion led him to discover graffiti and its subversive world. From this encounter, Brusk was born—a polymorphic artist who is simultaneously a graffiti artist, muralist, painter, draftsman, sculptor, but most importantly, a storyteller of a world in decline, whose sufferings and injustices he sublimates through an explosive and striking aesthetic.
Brusk's creativity has continually evolved since 1991, but it's evident that his style is marked by the use of two techniques that are almost omnipresent in his work: dripping and tearing, which often fragment the representation of the world he presents to us.
From this alteration of the motif through tearing and dripping emerges a lightness and gentleness that reveal a world where it seems possible to soften, reconcile, love, and even hope for the advent of a better world.
Thus, an ambiguity arises between a colorful and luminous form and a rebellious, acidic, sometimes very dark background—an expression that denounces the dysfunctions of our modern societies, an inner revolt that transforms the ugliness of this world into an explosion of beauty, a true pictorial oxymoron that gives us hope. Therefore, to reduce Brusk's work to tearing and dripping would be a mistake, as the artist finely shapes a universe that is both light and brutal, accurately confronting nature and culture, urging us to approach the monstrosity of our world with a benevolent gaze that frees itself from all negativity.