Claude Bernhard
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“As a painter and sculptor, I draw my inspiration from the natural phenomena around me. Through a simple and refined artistic world, I seek to express the essence of matter. Having been introduced to black-and-white photography at a very young age, I continue to pursue this aesthetic vision of monochrome. Along this journey, I explore the richness of light—its beauty, its depth, and its mystery. Like calligraphy, the line of light becomes a line of energy. A poetry of the inexpressible. Indian ink reveals as much as it suggests. It embodies both density and transparency. The pigments, meanwhile, drift away, like the murmurs of invisible currents. Through painting, space expands the realm of possibilities, where flashes of inspiration and necessities find expression. The gesture fades away, becoming nothing more than a silent presence. The atmospheres seem to invite us to journey toward inner landscapes, vertical horizons, and ephemeral shores. The sculptures embody the blossoming of a space within a space—a slow metamorphosis. Like a chrysalis, the works are born from the expansion of the void. Stoneware resonates. The textures reveal the earth’s grain, its nuances, its rough edges, and its infinite variations of black—sometimes luminous, sometimes unfathomable. The softness of the forms contrasts with the mineral roughness of the clays. Ceramics, imperishable, reflect a dimension of time that eludes us, of which we are but passing travelers. Matter becomes memory. Each layer holds an imprint, a trace, an awakening. A vibration emanates from it. A primal script.” Claude Bernhard
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Christian Bidaud
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