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Almine Rech

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.

 

Selected artworks

  • Jean-Baptiste Bernadet,                                      Untitled (Sign), 2019

    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

  • Jean-Baptiste Bernadet,                                      Untitled (Sign), 2019

    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 in

  • Jean-Baptiste Bernadet,                                      Sans Titre (La Prude), 2019

    Jean-Baptiste Bernadet Sans Titre (La Prude), 2019

    Oil on canvas, polished aluminum frame
    49 x 57 cm (framed)
    19 1/4 x 22 1/2 in (framed)
    © Matt Kroening 

  • Jean-Baptiste Bernadet,                                      Sans Titre (La Dangereuse), 2019

    Jean-Baptiste Bernadet Sans Titre (La Dangereuse), 2019

    Oil on canvas, polished aluminum frame
    40 x 46 cm (framed)
    15 3/4 x 18 1/8 in (framed)

  • Jean-Baptiste Bernadet,                                      Untitled (Fugue, Rouen III), 2019

    Jean-Baptiste Bernadet Untitled (Fugue, Rouen III), 2019

    Oil and cold wax on canvas
    200 x 180 cm
    78 3/4 x 70 7/8 in

  • Jean-Baptiste Bernadet,                                      TBT, 2020

    Jean-Baptiste Bernadet TBT, 2020

    Oil and cold wax on canvas
    245 x 390 x 5 cm
    96 1/2 x 153 1/2 x 2 in

  • Jean-Baptiste Bernadet,                                      Untitled (Vetiver), 2021

    Jean-Baptiste Bernadet Untitled (Vetiver), 2021

    Oil on canvas
    200 x 180 cm
    78 1/2 x 71 in

  • Jean-Baptiste Bernadet,                                      Untitled (Feelings), 2021

    Jean-Baptiste Bernadet Untitled (Feelings), 2021

    Oil on canvas
    205 x 290 cm
    80 1/2 x 114 1/2 in

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