ABOUT
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Born 1960 DENMARK
Autodidakt Painter
ONCE UPON A TIME. That is how all fairytales start.
I started back in 1976, with drawings inspired by Salvador Dali, and of course by the Album covers in the seventies, especially artists like Patrick Woodroffe. Later I discovered the fantastic work by Michael Parkes which has that romantic dreamlike thing that I love so much. Claude Verlinde for his expression in the faces of his figures, and very dreamlike landscapes. All three I admire for there fantastic skills, and wonderful sense for composition. Other inspiration sources are the Victorian painters, such as John Anser Fitzgerald and Richard Dadd.
For many years I worked with the surreal expression “Dali/Ernst/Magritte.” But always with the fascination for the world of Fairies and other little creatures.
It was not until 1998 that the world of Nactalius. “The name of my own World.” Started seriously and became the only thing I from then on worked with, I got the name Nactalius in a dream back in 1981, where I also made my first Fairy world painting, then the world was born.
There where to be many years before I had the courage to paint like that again, but when I finally started, I knew it was the right thing for me to do, it seems like it never stops, the ideas are coming like I was never to stop again.
There are is great pleasure in painting this world, because it has a lot of parallels to our own world, which I enjoy describing, but I have chosen that there is no evil in my world. After all this is one of the advantages of creating an entire world of your own. We see to much evil as it is in our lifetime, so my little protest against that are, the more evil the world becomes, the sweeter my paintings will become. This is my way of trying to keep a balance.
My aim with my work is very simple; I feel that there is a need to escape, all the evil we are surrounded by, in our daily life.
My greatest joy is to see, the positive and immediate joyful reaction, which I see in all ages or gender when showing my work.
As an artist I am a creator, or an inventor if you wish; this is why I feel that for me it is important to create the perfect world. A world which are beyond all evil and deceit, a world where you live in harmony with each other, no matter how you are and how you look, you live by the ways of what nature provides.
This is why I invented the world called “NACTALIUS” this is a world of constant growth, but always in harmony and with the deepest respect for everything which has been created there.
The fascination of painting/creating is, you are able to create a world that is entirely your own, it is indeed the “Land of make-believe.”
Claus Brusen
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RESUME
1983 Frederikshavn Art-museum ”Solo exhibition, Drawings and sketches” DK
2001 Gallery Nordenvind. “Solo exhibition” DK
2001 Gent Art fair. Belgium
2002 Strasbourg Art fair. France
2002 Gallerigården. ”Two man exhibition” DK
2002 – 03 - 04 Galleri Nordenvind. Sæby. Easter exhibition. DK
2002 Stockholm Art fair. Sweden
2002 - 03 Copenhagen Art fair. DK
2003 Gallery Gerly. Copenhagen. DK
2003 Gallery Max. Ystad. Sweden “Two man exhibition”
2004 Galerie Michelle Boulet. Paris. France
2004 Interart Gallery. Manhattan NY. USA “Two man show”
2004 Chalk Farm Gallery. Santa Fe New Mexico. USA
2004 Middle St. Gallery. Virginia Washington. USA
2005 Skive Art-museum. Easter exhibition. DK
2005 H. C. Andersen+. Castle Voergaard. DK
2005 Galerie Michelle Boulet. Paris. France “Masters of the Imaginary”
2005 Kronberg im Taunus, Germany. “Cello festival group show”
2005 Skive Art-museum. “Solo exhibition” DK
2006 Galerie Paulette Bos. Arnhem og Den Haag. ”all 2006” NL
2006 Galerie Honingen. Gouda. “Masters of Miniatures” NL
2006 Paris. S.A.F.I.R. Regard Fantastique I. France
2006 Gouden Phoenix, Leeuwarden, Presentation of “DREAMSCAPE I”. NL
2007 Galerie Princesse de Kiev, Nice. France
2007 Venus & the Female Intuition. Denmark - The Netherlands & France
2007 S.A.F.I.R. Regard Fantastique II. France
2007 - 08 Galleri Braenderi-Gaarden, Horsens. DK
2007 Dreamscape exhibition at Re-Art Gallery, Almere. NL
2007 Galerie Princesse de Kiev, Nice. Les animeus petit. France
2008 Aalborg Kunstpavillion, Aalborg. DK
2009 Isle of Weight - AOI Group summer show - England.
2009 FANTASMUS, Saeby. DK Group exhibition "Dantes divine comedy"
2009 Viechtach Stadthause, Germany. Group exhibition "Dantes divine comedy"
2009 Castroreale - Sicily, Art-colony - winner of 3rd prize - Italy
2010 FANTASMUS, Saeby. DK Group exhibition "Quadrant Fantasy"
2010 La Galleria Pall Mall, London. UK Group exhibition "Fifty Years Fantastic"
Claus Brusen has sold throughout the world to collecters.
Among those HRH Prince Henri of Denmark
AWARDS:
2008 - Awarded the prize "Premier Superiour Grand Cru (1 prize)" in London, The Mall. AOI
2009 - Awarded the third prize in Castroeale - Sicily, at the Third Annual "Grand Prix Internationale" Italia
Member & Co-founder of. I.F.R. (International Fantasy Realism)
Founder of C.A.I.I.R. (Center for Art of International Imaginary Realism)
Member of AOI. Society for Art of Imagination
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If you do need for some reason to contact this dreamer, you can do it either on e-mail:
brusen@tdcadsl.dk or info@clausbrusen.com
Or by writing an oldfashion letter and send it by Snail-mail ;o) to:
CLAUS BRUSEN - SOLSBAEKVEJ 229 - DK 9300 SAEBY - DENMARK
It is possible to phone him depending on what time of day it is:
+45 20 12 24 20
Everyone will get a reasonable sane answer a.s.a.p
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Contact: info@clausbrusen.com