Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Untitled (Grey Matters)
2018
€1200,00
Oil on palette, perspex frame.
31.5 × 41.5 cm
Unique work, signed and dated by the artist
In stock
about this work
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet’s references range across a broad spectrum of art historical precedents, from Claude Monet to Edvard Munch. He sees in their work ways that color can be used to both animate optical experiences for the viewer, and to engender an examination and analysis of these experiences. His work is thus as intellectually penetrating as it is seductively beautiful. Just as his 19th Century forebears explored changing perceptual paradigms — for example, the Impressionists use of color mixing and hasty brushwork to probe the industrial age — Bernadet arranges the saturated pastels of the backlit, liquid crystal displays of our digital age into subtly pulsating, all-over patterns that question the ways and means by which images circulate in an electronic economy.
about Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
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)
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