Michel Brylak 1954-

Born in Northern France in 1954. Son of a Polish immigrant Michel Brylak becomes a police officer and continues to become a customs officer. No longer wanting to be in this line of business Brylak finds a job that permits him to devote himself more frequently (several days a week) to painting before retiring completely in 2004 and devoting all his time to his art.

In 1981 he has his first artistic experience when he buys a postcard that serves as model for his first work of art. His work is first and foremost impulsive, generated by a vital need to a break out of the chains imposed by society and the much too beautiful images imposed through advertising and our communication society. Brylak tries to escape this in his own poetic manner to find a new equilibrium for a better life. His paintings being abstract, gesticulate and allusive with a spontaneous sense of rhythm, color and composition. These gestural, abstract, allusive paintings gives a form to the feelings of the artist whether it being joy, pain or anger. Musical and rhythmic they seem to be created in our presence much like “free jazz” – a total improvisation.
One of France’s greatest masters in improvisation – Michel Macréau – discovered the work of Brylak during an exhibition at the Galerie Alain Margaron in 1994 and acquired one of his paintings.

Principal exhibitions

2002 – Solo exhibition at Galerie Alain Margaron, Paris.

2003 – “Vivant la vie” at Galerie Doris Benno, Saint-Paul de Vence.

2004 – “Michel Macréau-Michel Brylak, L’urgence de peindre” at Galerie Alain Margaron, Paris.

2008 – “Oeuvres récentes”, Galerie Alain Margaron, Nice.

2010 – Solo exhibition at Galerie Alain Margaron, Nice.