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Untitled (Fugue)
2023
Jean-Baptiste Bernardet
Painting
230 x 207
The layers of color, patiently built up and continually reworked, shape a floating space in which the gaze never settles for long. “Untitled (Fugue)” confirms Jean-Baptiste Bernadet’s painting in an attitude of extreme restraint, marked by repeated gestures that are almost erased. Oil paint and cold wax create a subtle vibration of color, in which variations of light establish a silent dialogue between what is revealed and what remains in suspension. The work thus immerses the gaze in a temporal and sensory experience, where painting becomes a space of projection, oscillating between presence and disappearance.
A Beaux-arts of Rennes and La Cambre Brussels graduate, Jean-Baptiste Bernardet has developed a pictural practice around notions of perception and affect. His art, almost always non figurative, explores transitional areas between appearance and disappearance, between fixedness and flux. Through diluted strokes, superpositions and chromatic variations, his works instal a suspended connection to time, close to memory or awakened dreams. Conceived as series or open ensembles, they create mental landscapes in which painting becomes a sensible space, where notions of uncertainty, duration and continuous shifting of emotions can be encountered. Informed by art history, particularly Impressionism and the Nabis, his work offers open spaces for the viewer’s projection. His works are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Louis Vuitton Foundation, the Ixelles Museum, Museum Voorlinden (The Netherlands), the Long Museum in Shanghai, and the French National Fund for Contemporary Art (CNAP).
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