2023 – NEW DROUOT QUOTES & FRENCH NATIONAL LIBRARY MITTERRAND–I GALLERY (PARIS) & MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART MAC/CCB–BERARDO MUSEUM LISBON (PORTUGAL)
"Three 'Paintings with Cinema' acquired in a Swiss gallery by collectors in 2011, have just been auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot (Paris). Also a drawing by Peter KOLéOM (pseudonym of Bernard for his graphic work) was also resold. These four works were exhibited by Galerie Rune, rue de l'Athénée in Geneva (Switzerland). We are looking for these 4 collectors: that these buyers kindly contact our gallery ". (I Gallery)
1/ NEW QUOTATIONS BY THE DROUOT AUCTION HOUSE (JANUARY & JULY)
JANUARY 2023
- La rêverie du carré (2003) was listed on 17 January 2023 and bought for €1300 excluding fees (lot 140). It is a "Painting with the cinema", titled, justified artist proof (E.A.1/4), framed, signed, dated 2003, signed to Helen on the back and accompanied by a poem of the artist. Dim. à vue: 16 x 16 cm. (6 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.) - Dim with frame: 36 x 36 cm (14,2 x 14,2 in).
(Series of round designs or tondi)
When the square dreams of turning into a circle... the squaring of the circle inaugurates a mathematical problem
impossible to solve since Antiquity.
The square’s daydream (2003)
From head to toe only cloudless walls
Every day is Sunday with my merry wife
The tattoo of a poem joins in our love bed
As a greedy blossom I suck in her clam
- Since childhood (2004) : this "Painting with Cinema" was listed the same day and bought 1400 € excluding fees (lot 141). Framed, titled, signed and dated 2005 on the passepartout. Proof of Justified Artist (E.A. 4/4) in pencil, accompanied by his poem and signed with felt. Dim: 22 x 15 cm. (8 3/4 x 6 in.); Dim. with frame: 48 x 40.5 cm. (18 3/4 x 16 in.). With mention on the back: "Exhibited in 2011 in Switzerland (Galerie Rune, r. Athénée - Geneva), this work is a tribute to the painter Ad Reinhardt".
Since childhood (2004)
Right from my birth, I had no taste for death
I gave myself up looking for you so alive
Under the muddled storm freeing bodies
In a long complaint to the surviving past
- he Light that Works (2018) : drawing quoted the same day and bought 650 € excluding fees
(lot 32). It is a framed print
on 3/3 justified art paper and monogrammed K below with felt. Titled, dated 2018 and signed on the back. Dim: 27.5 x 19.5 cm.
(10.8 x 7.5 in.) - Dim. with frame: 33 x 24 cm. (13 x 9.5 in.). Scotch on the back + text of the art critic Suzanne d'Orbigny:
"At his main approach of «Painting with Cinema», Bernard Gast adds the drawing under the pseudonym of artist Peter KOLÉOM.
As a street artist, KOLÉOM pastes his drawings on the walls of cities of the world and on some digital walls of NFT platform.
What interests him is the unspoken, the hidden underneath, the secret... He also illustrates books, records and other media,
but his drawings sometimes adorn the cities of Vienna, Paris, Shanghai, New York…"
ORBIGNY (d’) Suzanne – Le pays des merveilles de KOLéOM (1997) – Editions Pace
JULY 2023
On July 11, still at Drouot Enchères, the "Painting with Cinema" Big cleaning time 4 (2003) was listed and bought 3000€ excluding fees ( lot 139). It was also exhibited in 2011 in Switzerland in the Galerie Rune in Geneva. Framed, this artist’s proof, titled, numbered E.A. 3/3, signed and dated in pencil back is accompanied by his poem. View Dim: 14 x 23 cm. Frame Dim: 33 x 42 cm.
Big cleaning time 4 (2003)
On the book’s verso my follower
Preserves a library of fire
As an offertory of hands
Paints the initial of God’s silence
2/ Meanwhile...
I GALLERY & BNF MITTERRAND (PARIS) exhibit black and white. A photograph by Martine Franck, Alpes de Provence (1976), is placed next to a work by Bernard, Sound and return of a bad memory (Bruit et retour d'un mauvais souvenir) (2017). The luminous traces overhung by a cloud in the shape of a flying saucer of Martine Franck bring a mystery. Bernard Gast’s "Painting with Cinema" features a mystery that raises concern about the return of a bad memory through the shadows of trees, but especially the raised arm that recalls the Nazi regime. The exhibition 'Black and white: an aesthetic of photography’ (Noir et blanc : une esthétique de la photographie) brings together masterpieces from the collections of the French National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France). Nadar, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Willy Ronis, Helmut Newton, Diane Arbus, Mario Giacomelli, Robert Frank, William Klein, Valérie Belin, Daido Moriyama, etc. This course contains about 300 prints and embraces 150 years of history of black and white photography, from its origins in the 19th century to contemporary creation. Oct 17, 2023 to Jan 21, 2024 - Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand - Galerie 2
EXHIBITION CURATOR
Sylvie Aubenas, Director of the Department of Prints and Photography, BnF
Héloïse Conésa, head of the department of photography, in charge of contemporary photography in the department of prints and
photography, BnF
Flora Triebel, curator in charge of 19th century photography in the Department of Prints and Photography, BnF
Dominique Versavel, curator in charge of modern photography in the Department of Prints and Photography, BnF
3/ MUSEE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN MAC/CCB – MUSEE BERARDO DE LISBONNE (PORTUGAL)
The Berardo Museum (The Museu Colecção Berardo) exhibits a superb collection of modern and contemporary art by José Berardo. The tastes of this Portuguese art collector and businessman are very eclectic. Indeed, many artistic currents (cubism, surrealism, pop art...) are represented and allow to discover works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol or Salvador Dalí... From painting to sculpture to video, you will be satisfied by leaving this museum which also hosts temporary exhibitions.
The collection of José Berardo has been at the Museum of Contemporary Art – MAC/CCB in Lisbon since October 27, 2023. The State Contemporary Art Collection (CACE), the Teixeira de Freitas collection and the Ellipse collection are also on display.
Names such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Paula Rego, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman or Cindy Sherman, among many others, are presented on the board of the movements that their works allowed to define, enabling a journey through time and an in-depth knowledge of each context.
The new MAC/CCB, which includes the Architecture Center/Garagem Sul, affirms the mission of the Centro Cultural de Belém, enhancing the dialogue between visual arts, architecture, and performing arts with the presentation of temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists.