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On view through the month of May, 2025 Presents recent oils and mixed media works by

Saturday, April 26, 2025 from 6 to 8 PM

Galerie d’Orsay

33 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116

tel : 617 266 8001

www.galerie-dorsay.com

The permanent installation of Bruno’s exquisite “Public Garden at Twilight, Boston Skyline” in the main foyer at the Boston Public Library was a highlight for us all in 2019. Honored with a very prominent placement just inside the main working entrance on Boylston Street, the painting virtually straddles the Boston Marathon finish line a place of pride, emotion, and strength for so many visitors and locals alike. It was Bruno’s long-held dream to be in this collection alongside such greats as John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Henri de Toulose-Lautrec. Bruno has frequently noted how Boston is the smartest city in the world, and he knows the Boston Public Library, along with our many prestigious colleges and universities, has a large hand in cultivating that honor.

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, honored Bruno Zupan in association with their Art in Bloom event, an annual celebration during which local floral artists create bouquets inspired by artworks in the permanent MFA collection. Bringing the bloom full circle, Bruno was tasked with choosing one of the bouquets as inspiration for his newest bouquet composition on canvas. Rendering his contribution on-site in the expansive new Shapiro Courtyard, Bruno selected the arrangement of Hokusai’s “The Wave.” In addition to relaying his vision through his painting on view, Bruno spoke beautifully at an exclusive members-only event in front of 600 patrons and collectors, sharing his inspiring story from war-torn Slovenia to meeting his American wife in Paris and his early beginnings at Boston College and beyond.

‘My Friend The Earth’

Bruno Zupan, Atlanta Tribune Interview, 2023

Many locales claim Bruno and Jane Zupan as their own — and for good reason — their unique, international lives bring them annually to Paris (France), Venice (Italy), Mallorca (Spain), and last but certainly not least to Columbus, Georgia (United States). This year, Atlanta’s Millennium Gate Museum honored Bruno Zupan with a large-scale exhibition of nearly sixty oil and watercolor paintings. Also hanging in the show were Zupan artworks on loan from former President Jimmy Carter’s The Carter Center, and other notable private collections. We are thrilled to announce that the bulk of this museum exhibition is traveling directly to Boston, where the artworks will be offered exclusively to Galerie d’Orsay collectors as part of our 2023 show.

“I likle to touch people’s souls. Some of us think with emotion and some with reason...sometimes it’s good to put emotion and reason together, it’s a perfect balance.”

Sunset over Charles River Oil on canvas, 39 x 32 inches

Bruno in the Boston Public Library

THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

MILLENNIUM GATE MUSEUM

Bruno’s greatest fan may very well be Martha Folsom, Co-Director of Galerie d’Orsay on Newbury Street. Indeed, several of Bruno’s paintings were inspired by Martha’s photographs of the city, where she has enjoyed working closely with Bruno and discerning art collectors for many years.

Boston at Twilight 38 x 51 inches

Early Spring in Boston

Oil on canvas, 35 x 46 inches

Wildflowers Oil on canvas, 39 x 39 inches

Reflections on a Lake Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 inches

Autumn Leaves

Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 inches

Weracoba Creek after a Rain Oil on canvas, 39 x 39 inches

Fish Conference Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 inches

Butterflies in Spring Frenzy Oil on gold leafed canvas, 25.5 x 32 inches

Earth in a Flower Garden Oil on canvas, 51 x 38 inches

Triptych: Almond Trees in February Oil on canvas, 51 x 98 inches

Evening in Venice

View of Grand Canal from San Tomà Oil on canvas, 35 x 46 inches

Wildﬂowers and Blue Sky Oil on canvas, 25.5 x 32 inches

Rocky Coast of Mallorca Oil on canvas, 35 x 46 inches

Celebration at the Church of the Redeemer, Venice Oil on canvas, 25.5 x 32 inches

July 4th Fireworks seen from Brooklyn Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 inches

Campo San Giacomo, Venice Watercolor on Arches Paper, 29 x 42 inches

Grand Canal, Venice, seen from San Tomà Watercolor on Japanese Rice Paper, 25 x 38 inches

Belvedere Fountain, Central Park, New York

Watercolor on Japanese Rice Paper, 26 x 39 inches

Twilight Crosswalk Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 inches

Electric City with Reflections in River Oil on canvas, 38 x 51 inches

N ATASHA Z UPAN

F OLDING L IGHT

‘This new body of work entitled ‘Folding Light’ explores the interaction between color and materials in which time, space, light and emotions intersect.

The technique that primarily characterises my work is collage. It is not only about the use of different materials, but also the combination of different pictorial languages.

It is my fractal language developed over decades, where fragments, and indexes contrast and play off one another creating new spacial dimensions. These are uniﬁed by following the movement of the paint strokes.

By deconstructing methods of representation, I reformulate new space. The dialectic between traditional representation and the reconﬁguration of these elements is what interests me. I spend a lot of time immersed in nature observing how color and light effect different structures and spaces. Change is the only constant.

The materials are tactile, embracing ‘ the now’ yet when looking at the details, overlapping within the time folds, we notice the embroidery, the stitching and movement of the threads in each chosen fabric and are transported to another time. Our eyes wander from centuries past to present..

I use selected embroidered antique fabrics, 24 K gold leaf, book pages, binders, beeswax, oil, pigments to mention a few. These converge in the creative process. Collage is mutable and in placing and layering the various different elements guided by my subconscious, emotional input is absorbed in the material. We are left wondering who wore the garments previously, where did the curtains hang? I make each piece with both hands, the edges are uneven, which breaks with the ﬂatness and seamless aesthetic we live in this digital age.

‘Folding Light’ is about a timeless, tactile universe of sensation, luminosity and overlapping moments in time. I invite you to explore the three dimensional and corpulent elements and to open the sentient portal by delving into nature’s essential, minute details and their indelible signiﬁcance to our human experience.