Martin Bruneau - Regard d'artiste

Fifteen artists came together to explore the notion of spirituality with their feminine identity.

Performances of S. Hirakawa question spectators on the place they occupy in natural environment, their relationship to nature and its impact on them.

Lines, in all their different forms have punctuated Bernar Venet’s work since the sixties. Constructed from infinite points, these lines are the foundation of his work.

Laboratory for diverse artistic forms, the collective FRIGO led from Lyon a very active international network of fine art artists, choreographers, poets, comedians, writers and musicians in between 1978 and 1990.

Each destination is a source of inspiration and creation for Nestor Perkal, designer and traveller. The jewellery he creates comes from every one of his experiences as well as his quest for pictures, objects and colours. 

From 1942 to 1954, Sister Jacques-Marie, originally Monique Bourgeois, describes her encounter with Henri Matisse that lead to the creation of the Rosaire Chapel in Vence.

A new approach to understand and explore the work of Pierre Soulages.

With about twenty illustrations selected by the artist.

The artist came up with the idea of striking the trunk of fourteen varieties of trees with a mallet, registering the quality of the vibration from the wood itself, its resonance in away.

Daniel Buren’s work is well known, especially for his white or colourful stripes, and dialogues with its environment. In situ or in movement, they will be exhibited at the Picardie museum, until october 2015.

For many years now, Martin Bruneau has been working from paintings of the great masters of the classical period such as Rembrandt, Velasquez, Courbet, Pousins or even Philippe de Champaigne.

This book offers a complete vision of the plastic artist Champion Métadier's recent work in which the issues and consequences of digital pictures' future reflect with a singular acuteness. Her works impose themselves as remarquably dense objects. 

Exceptional hand-coloured pochoir print with gouache of the Blue Nude by Henri Matisse on Arches vellum paper.

The Picardie Museum has presented a lesser-known aspect of the artist’s work: his “Toolboxes”. C. Jaccard has compulsively created a multitude of boxes accumulated in his studio for over forty years.

Xavier Veilhan, a major figure in the art world, has presented a polymorphous work that questions modes of historic and contemporary representation.

Exceptional box with 6 volumes of stencilled illustrations of  the cut-out work of  Matisse (Chasubles and stained-glass windows) created for the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence (South of France).

When it comes to colour, Odon’s work covers a huge amount of possibilities : his weaved spirals and nebulas are bright and colourful. 

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Le Corbusier’s passing, Anish Kapoor was invited to make his work dialogue with the La Tourette convent’s architectural patrimony. This confrontation gives place to an exhibition that changes the way we see and look at the convent.

Book in a portfolio presents contemporary tapestries and carpets from the French Manufactures of Gobelins, Beauvais and Savonnerie, created by international artists since 1965.

This book presents an ensemble of opaque watercolours and oils paintings produced by Geneviève Claisse in 1965 and 1966.

Inspired by modernism, endowed with a great sense of colour, the artist has developed, for the past fifteen years, a graphic painting style that continuously interrogates origins and uses of shapes.

For nearly forty years, Christian Bonnefoi’s work has stood in a very special place on the painting scene and, more generally, in the history of contemporary art.

The text by Bruno Dubrogel reveals the extensive creative adventure of Pierre Soulages, by means of questions regarding aesthetics, spirituality and technologies.

François Méchain, known as a “nomadic sculptor” and photographer, made Perspectives, a series of three works, for the Domaine de Trévarez.