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MATERIALS AND CREATIONS

SINCE HIS VISIT TO THE LASCAUX CAVES IN THE 1980s - REAL ARTISTIC SHOCK - BERNARD ALLIGAND STRESSED TO FIX THE MEMORY OF THE COUNTRIES HE CROSSES AND THE SOILS THAT HE TRACKS.

Also, wherever he is, he does not fail to take, meticulously and with discernment, both on the surface and in depth, a little of this earth and the multiple materials that compose it, to reintegrate it into his works. , bringing it back to life and existing in another dimension, that of canvas or paper. Shedding light on the material, in its slightest crevices and detours, sublimating it in a way, such is the path that the artist has traced for thirty years.

MATIERES ET CREATIONS

 

DEPUIS SA VISITE AUX GROTTES DE LASCAUX DANS LES ANNEES 80 - REEL CHOC ARTISTIQUE - BERNARD ALLIGAND S'EFFORCE DE FIXER LA MEMOIRE DES PAYS QU'IL TRAVERSE ET DES SOLS QU'IL FOULE.

Aussi, où qu’il soit, ne manque-t-il pas de prélever, minutieusement et avec discernement, tant en surface qu’en profondeur, un peu de cette terre et des multiples matières qui la composent, pour la réintégrer dans ses œuvres, la faisant revivre et exister dans une autre dimension, celle de la toile ou du papier. Mettre en lumière la matière, dans ses moindres anfractuosités et détours, la sublimant en quelque sorte, telle est la voie que l’artiste s’est tracée depuis une trentaine d’années. 

TOILES

ORIGINAUX SUR PAPIER

Technique mixte. Sables, terre volcanique, oxydation, fragments de schiste, sur papier Velin BFK Rives 250 g - F. de 20 X 20, 30 x 30 cm à 40 x 40 cm

AQUAGRAVURES

Technique mixte. Papier chiffon reconstitué. 2 versions : blanches ou avec rehaut de sable noir F. de 52,5 X 52,5 cm

THE WORK OF BERNARD ALLIGAND, OF AN Astonishing UNITY, has not ceased to evolve and renew itself, to deepen, since the beginning of his career at the beginning of the 80s. Neither figurative nor abstract, transcending borders of creation, Bernard Alligand is in search of his own expression with the fierce desire to find a balance between shapes and textures. Employing mixed techniques very early on in his compositions, he draws his inspiration from the places he crosses or rather that he excavates with patience and tenacity, like an archaeologist. His "harvests", as he calls them, of minerals and plants, nourish his works, and through a strange alchemy, are reborn on the canvas in a new space, where the material is in a way transcended by the hand of the artist. .

Extract from the Retour d'Islande catalog, text by Pascal Fulacher.

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