“Spatio-Temporal Portal” by Thierry Bruet perfectly illustrates this artist’s singular approach.
Inspired by Tintoretto’s Esther before Ahasuerus, this work transposes the baroque composition into a striking anachronistic universe. The scene is disrupted by the intrusion of a washing machine, creating a collision between sacred and profane, classical and contemporary. It questions artistic codes with wit and irony, transforming a traditional religious motif into a meditation on the mutations of contemporary art.
About “Spatio-Temporal Portal” by Thierry Bruet
- “Spatio-Temporal Portal”, by Thierry Bruet, 2023
- 180 x 180 cm, oil on canvas
- https://www.thierrybruet.com/
After “Esther before Ahasuerus” by Tintoretto
- The Royal Collection Trust
- Oil on canvas, 207.7 x 275.5 cm, circa 1546-1547
- https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/12/collection/407247/esther-before-ahasuerus
Thierry Bruet (born 1949) establishes himself as a singular figure in contemporary figurative painting. Trained in traditional painting techniques, he develops a unique pictorial language combining classical virtuosity with contemporary spirit. Internationally recognized, his canvases adorn prestigious venues. His artistic approach reveals complex thinking where “form thinks” through a permanent dialogue between past and present, questioning our relationship to art and contemporary society.
Exhibition “Thierry Bruet, serial painter“
An exhibition “Thierry Bruet, serial painter” is being held at Galerie MR8, 8 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75003 Paris from September 12 to 25, 2025. It brings together 40 large-format works that embody a bold dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity. Trained in ancient techniques, Bruet orchestrates a “scandalous collision” by confronting classical references from La Tour, Caravaggio or Tintoretto with Contemporary Art, creating “pictorial anachronisms” where grotesque and existential vanity intertwine. This impertinent “Serial Painter” deploys an aesthetic of provocation through characters with exaggerated proportions, frozen poses, infiltrated with contemporary objects that deconstruct icons through humor. This aesthetic collision reveals an artist for whom “it is important not to be serious,” transforming pictorial mastery into a playful weapon to make us smile at ourselves in a total fusion between being and painting.
