Discover the contemporary work of Bernard Pourchet
2023
- Acquisition by the city of Fontaine-Lès-Dijon of 2 2X2m prints
- Solo exhibition – La Source Gallery – Fontaine-les-Dijon
- Collective exhibition – St Etienne Chapel – Beaune
- Wow’art! – Contemporary art festival – Nantua
- Artists’ fair – Fontaine-les-Dijon
- ArtCité – Bourg en Bresse
2022
- Musée de L’Abbaye - Temporary exhibition «Arboretum» - Saint Claude
- Alain Ellouz Foundation for Alabaster - Biève
- Contemporary Art Biennale - Earn Art - Burnhaupt-le-Haut
- ArtCité 2022 - Bourg-en-Bresse - Price of the town of Bourg-en-Bresse
- Collective exhibition - Saône Town Hall
2021
- Biennial Days of Light Festival - St Saturnin
- Parlourcourt Art Fair - Lorscourt
- Salon des Artistes - Fontaines-les-Dijon - Cancelled
- 10th Biennale of Plastic Arts - Besançon - Canceled
2020
- Art Fair - Arcs les Grès - Canceled
- Salon d’Automne - Champs Elysées - Paris - Canceled
- Collective exhibition - Lace Manufactures Museum - Retournac
- Salon des Artistes - Fontaines-les-Dijon - postponed; 2021
- Group exhibitions - Galerie Pictura - Besançon
2019
- 9th Biennale of Plastic Arts - Besançon
- Group exhibitions - Galerie Pictura - Besançon
- Collective exhibition - Galerie Place Suisse des Arts - Lausanne
- Solo exhibition - Château Pertusier - Morteau
2018
- 80th Salon Regain - Lyon
- Collective exhibition - Beaune
- Collective exhibition - Pontarlier
- Group exhibitions - Artist from Galerie Pictura - Besançon
2017
- Salon des Réalités Nouvelles - Paris
- Biennial of Plastic Arts - Besançon
- 79th Salon Regain, Meeting of the Arts - Lyon
- Artists’ Fair - Fontaines-les-Dijon
2016
- Fall Show 2016 - Champs Elysées - Paris
- 78th Salon Regain, Meeting of the Arts - Lyon
- International Portrait Exhibition - St Jean Le Blanc
- Exhibition of winners - Espace Christiane Peugeot - Paris
- Contemporary art competition - Espace Christiane Peugeot - Paris
2015
- Fall Show 2015 - Champs Elysées - Paris
- Chapelle St Etienne - Collective exhibition - Beaune
- 77th Salon Regain, Meeting of the Arts - Lyon
- SAI - Current Art Exhibition - National Art Center of Tokyo
- Pictura Gallery - Collective exhibition - Besançon
- Circle of Artists of Paris - Floral Park
- Solo exhibition Restaurant Mon Loup - Besançon
- Portrait Salon - Ch. de Beauregard - Loir et Cher
2014
- Fall Show 2014 - Champs Elysées - Paris
- Place des Arts - Besançon
- 35th International Artistic Fair of Haute Loire - Puy en Velay
- 76th Salon Regain, Meeting of the Arts - Lyon
2013
- Collective exhibition - Grd Combe Châteleu
- 34th International Artistic Fair of Haute-Loire - Puy en Velay
- 75th Salon Regain, Meeting of the Arts - Lyon
2012
- Les Hivernales Paris-Est - Montreuil
- 74th Salon Regain, Meeting of the Arts - Lyon
- International Biennale of Abstract Arts of the XXI° Century - La Bouille
- 33rd International Artistic Fair of Haute-Loire - Puy en Velay
- The Arabesques of Saint Savinien - Charente Maritime
- Franche-Comté - Montbéliard
2011
- 32nd International Artistic Fair of Haute-Loire - Puy en Velay
2010
- l’Entre-Deux gallery-boutique - Morteau
- Collective exhibition - Grand’Combe Châteleu
Using digital as a creative medium, I developed my own pictorial language which is expressed through through a vocabulary borrowed from to the world of graphic design and draws inspiration from images.
Trained graphic designer, photographer author, I attach a predominant importance to the framing, seeking in the image to find its meaning. bring emotion to life through detail.
It was by diving into the extremely rigorous graphic world of security design that I built my career. the bases of my pictorial language, diverting the graphic codes of this almost scientific writing to make it a personal creative tool.
I do not reproduce anything, I invent or interpret.
Through my screen, I sculpt graphic material, the dust of images. I explore the combination of elementary graphic particles taken from photography, which constitute the substrate of my compositions and which I use as macroscopic pigments, experimenting with molecular painting. I deconstruct the gray levels of the image using using lines, geometric patterns, frames or micro-structures to build my universe. All these graphic elements with improbable shapes contribute to the visual effect. create the illusion by bringing nuances and contrasts to the image. my compositions the way the impressionists brush strokes.
I don't know where I will. I move forward, methodically testing the interactions of shapes and colors, until I finally find myself. what the outline of a world appears before me and grabs hold of me. I then let myself be guided. Taming the unexpected, provoking the unexpected, I am condemned to death. à progress because going back is limited, almost impossible. The balance is often unstable. It happens that the work escapes me through an excess of curiosity.
Mappings of imaginary worlds, views from the sky, immersions in organic matter at the same time. through a microscope; my creations are nourished by these incredible images that we must seek out and sometimes require an effort of observation, by these images which transport us from the depths of the universe to the depths of the universe. inside matter, which destabilize us by the lack of reference points and the excessiveness of the relationships of magnitude, these images which make us want to look ever further. /p>
Replacing the optical instrument with the distance at the work, I create works that offer several levels of reading, going to different levels. contrary to the common representation of the two-dimensional image which requires an observation distance proportional to the image. the size of the image. But this distance of comfort between the eye and the work is elusive. My creations are like a trap that exerts an uncontrollable attraction. From the first glance, doubt arises between what we perceive and what we think we see. The desire to get closer to understand what we see is irresistible, destabilizes us, carries us away.
My work is an invitation to travel into the depths of the printed image, to the discovery of these innumerable details which create perception.
Each work is like a snapshot of life. captured in this progression towards the infinitely small where we discover the importance of these tiny, almost invisible elements that we believe to be insignificant, negligible and which yet all have their importance in the very existence of the composition. /p>
Our perception changes according to our point of view, according to what we want to see there or what we think we see there.
B Pourchet - pixels-et-cie.fr
