Youri BROITMAN

Youri Broitman was born in 1956 in Odessa, USSR - Leaving in Israël

Youri Broitman has held one man shows in such museums as:
* Ludwig Museum in the State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg (former Leningrad), currated by the head of contemporary department Dr. A.Borovsky who in the same museum has currated one man shows of such well known artists, classics in their lifetime, as Joseph Beuys and Zigmar Polke.
* The Russian Museum of Ethnography in St.Petersburg, Russia
* Museum Anna Achmatova in St.Petersburg, Russia
* Museum Yad le Banim, Tiberias, Israel
He as well had one man shows in:
* Gallerry Ramune, NY.NY, USA;
* Gallery Montserat, Soho, NY.NY, USA;
* Gallery Kalatian, NY.NY, USA;
* Gallery Eve Fay, Paris, France;
* Gallery Amalia Arbel, Rishon Le Zion, Israel;
* Gallery Balagan Tel Aviv, Israel;
* Gallery Davidsohn Tel Aviv, Israel;

Here is what different personalities of the art world had to say about Youri Broitman:
Dr.A.Borovsky is a worldknown authority on contemporary art and has lectured on this subject in such institutions as Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, USA; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Christie's School, London,UK; University of South California, Los-Angeles, USA:
?This is probably the first time that an artist of textural trend, knowing the rules of deconstruction games, is so literally, fully, appetizingly tied to a texture ?.?
from the essay by Dr. A.Borovsky for the catalog of Youri Broitman personal exhibition in Ludwig Museum in The State Russian Museum
J.Taylor Basker professor of art history currated an exibition of Youri Broitman in Montserrat Gallery,Soho,NY.NY.USA
?Youri Broitman brings a vision to his art that combines the realities of both the seen and the unseen.His art springs from contradictions,from deep emotion and from the unconscious.Unique in his honest search for expressive form,he refuses to be bound to one style,one school of painting.Broitman paints simultaneously in both a free, loose abstact style and a disciplined, intense realism which ruthlessly studies the world of appearance in minute detail.Broitman sees no conflict between these two techniques,but rather a dialog between alterate realities, both of which are aspects of a single truth?.Broitman presents a vast landscape of apples and cloth that overwhelms the the viewer with power and craftsmanship?.He paints with the skill of an old master transported into an age of doubt and search.? from the essay by J.Taylor Basker for the catalog of Youri Broitman exhibition in Montserrat Gallery, Soho, NY.NY.USA
Anita Arkin Steckel an accomplished Master from whom Willem De Kooning has purchased five works of art and said that her work is a ?cat?s meyaw? : ?When you teach, you try to plant a seed. In Youri Broitman I saw this seed begin to flourish and grow beyond my wildest expectations.? from the preview by Anita Arkin Steckel to a catalog for Youri Broitman personal exhibition in The Russian Ethnography Museum
Olga Savitsky holds a doctorate in art and theatre criticism and for long has been known in St.Petersburg intellectual circles: ?Youri Broitman?s energy and inner dynamism are naturaly attractive, as is anything which is full of life. His biography and artistic life make up a non stop spiritual fabric whith its florid and intriguing ornaments, which are nevertheless placed on a solid, reliable and quite material matter? from the essay by Olga Savitsky for the catalog of Youri Broitman personal exhibition in the Museum of Anna Achmatova Dorit Kedar holds Ph.D. in creative Arts,the Union Institute,Cincinayti,USA she is a writer artist and a currator well known in Israel and abroad: ?Vitality juts out of the surfaces, a continuous flow of colourful energy. Change is immenent, palpitating, breathing, exhaling? The spectator senses the atist?s genuine contentment in the pocess of painting?A witness of all the living with his eye and heart. The paintings are made by a conquering soul who well senses limitations and Freedom.? from the preview by Dorit Kedar to a catalog for Youri Broitman personal exhibition in The Russian Ethnography Museum.