Discover the contemporary work of THEODORA

BIOGRAPHY of THÉODORA Théodora Bernardini was born in Poitiers (France), of Corsican and Lorraine parents, she returned to Lorraine in 1945. From 1950, she attended school in Paris. Metz which became his city and, immediately, noticed by his drawing teacher who strongly encouraged him to do so. take drawing and painting lessons. For 13 years, she devoted herself passionately to these courses. In 1961, she married and had two sons: Olivier, born; in 1967 and Benoît, born in 1969. After an interruption doomed to her family, she returns to painting in 1983, taking classes at the METZ School of Fine Arts, as well as numerous internships at the METZ School of Fine Arts. throughout France. She won a first prize in the city of CANNES. She was presented that same year at the Mr Raymond PEYNET, Painter. Famous for creating in 1942 the loving couple he drew on many media. Next to it Therefore, since 1986, she has devoted herself entirely to painting, she has been a professional since 1988 where she was admitted to the the House of Artists - Paris. The artist draws his inspiration from his childhood. This is for having accompanied so often his grandfather « THÉODORE » in an enchanted garden, near its rose bushes and flowers, where colors, perfumes, flavors mix, that, fascinated, she reproduces and interprets the sensations felt. The obsession with nature never leaves her. In 1993 she met Madame Claude Pompidou, who congratulated and encouraged her for her pictorial approach which she described as “ "original and sincere". À Added to this is a lot of research and a lot of work in front of his easel to achieve this. creating a swirl of shapes in shimmering and luminous colors. From then on, she won numerous prizes and distinctions over the following years: Salon d’Automne in Paris. Paris, international competitions, entry into official listing directories. She has a series of numerous group and personal exhibitions throughout the world. throughout Europe which are popular with the public. 2nd in the Competition of the National Union of French Professional Artists, with a work « Red ». Art critics see in the artist a different, new, futuristic approach, a freedom of expression. of original expression as well as a subject, discovering in her the movement of gestures. But above all, Théodora creates interior landscapes of intense intensity. communicative, with flamboyant language imbued with chromatic rules. “ Théodora goes on for years. explore the techniques: pencil, charcoal, watercolor, oil. Each subject is covered in its entirety, then in detail. The peaceful time comes of research, the figurative becomes more evasive, more suggestive. Today his very contemporary paintings are adorned with materials, take on consistency and play with bright colors. The Impressionists and the Fauves are not far away. C. Belin le Républicain Lorrain 02/15/2009 (art critic) THÉODORA thus enters numerous private collections in France. Swiss. Luxembourg. Austria. Swiss. Italy. Poland. U.S.A. Hong Kong. Mexico. Since I was very little I had a pencil. by hand, from the age of ten I started à take drawing lessons for a few years. Then came the oil painting. oil, which remains my favorite discipline. The beginnings are figurative, with courses followed over 13 years. The Impressionists and their chromatic ranges influence me. Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, Maurice Denis.... Family pose for a few years. As soon as I start painting again, I very quickly evolve towards a very colorful abstraction. What motivates me is finding how to paint the colorful and fragrant childhood memories of grandfather's garden « Théodore ». This emotion is intact and becomes my obsession. I always continue my exploration, the supports are linen canvases, my approach is sincere, I try to say things by detaching myself from everything I can see in contemporary artists. I use different mediums, oil, pastel, mixed techniques, opposition of smooth and dull, smooth and textured. I crush the materials. The passion that drives me for my job pushes and motivates me every day. My common thread has always been: nature and color.

Théodora, from childhood, shows attraction and attachment
especially for painting. Jubilation throughout the discovery and use of
this medium has remained as strong as ever for fifty years.
Work as a life asset, without restraint, where; the impediment
twirls and the air current explodes. Sensuality, sensoriality, flavor, the senses
in fact are distilled in memories, infused in time, seized
in paintings.
But where? has this sensitive insistence led us for so many years?
The pictorial propositions are not always identifiable. But
whatever. It’s sensoriality. who takes precedence and takes, lifts and grabs,
to better place us in the imagination of its landscapes, in
challenge their interiority; and envelop us in their essence, even,
their essences, like flavors, perfumes, fluids, colors.
This journey is indeed a meditative, lengthy journey
not to say, languidly elaborate, built from canvas to canvas
where painting is the accomplice of this sensoriality; so founding for the
painter.

Viviane Zenner

Curator, Exhibition Curator, Editor End Editions