Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
°1978, Paris (FR) - lives and works in Brussels (BE)
A distinctive colorist, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet creates within each canvas an atmospheric cosmos, in which nature, emotion, and psyche take center stage. They oscillate somewhere between abstraction and landscape painting: incandescent shades of orange, full and honest purples, sulfuric yellows, deep grays, and melancholic pale greens produce worlds in which a landscape, its unique memory, and the imagination interact, directed by the eye and the mind. In Bernadet’s work, the gaze, insistent and fleeting, melancholy and celebratory, fuses with feeling, envisioned as a suite of emotions, a patchwork of romantic reminiscences and introspections, rapturous exhilaration kindled by the passage of time. Bernadet channels the spirit of Proust in his intimate relationship to memory, his deep desire to transcend linear time. If the ultimate aim of his painting is painting itself, it grants viewers an immense freedom, that of projecting their own experiences onto the canvas.
(courtesy of Almine Rech)
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet – Untitled (Plates), 2014 installation view as part of UNSCENE III at WIELS, Brussels in 2014 (Photo by Hugard & Vanoverschelde)
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet – So Far, So Close, installation view at Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels in 2016 (Photo by Hugard & Vanoverschelde)
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet – Untitled (Fugue-Screen I), 2014 (Photo by Peter Cox)
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet – Fugue, at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet has had numerous solo exhibitions, including shows at Retrospective Gallery, New York; Rod Barton in London; Karma in New York; and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
His work has been shown in several group exhibitions at venues such as WIELS in Brussels; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; White Flag Projects, St. Louis; and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing.
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet is represented by the following galleries;
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Almine Rech, Brussels / Paris / London
You can find more works by Jean-Baptiste Bernadet on his own website.
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet – Signs, at Valentin, Paris in 2020
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet – Signs, installation view at Alon Segev, Tel Aviv in 2019 (Photo by Elad Sarig)
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet Untitled (Sign), 2019 Glazed lava stone 100 x 100 x 2,5 cm 39 3 8 x 39 3 8 x 1 Inches © Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo- Hugard & Vanoverschelde
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet – Untitled (Fugue IX), Untitled (Fugue X), Untitled (Fugue XI), 2013 (Photo by Sylvie Chan-Liat)
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet – Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, 2012 as part of the permanent collection of Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (Photo by Antoine van Kaam)
