Romain Bernini
Rainbow Chasers
22 novembre 2017 – 27 gennaio 2018
fino al | until 26.11.2017
Sun Stand Still | Padiglione Israele
57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
a cura di | curated by Tami Katz-Freiman
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| Romain Bernini, Peti Bwa V, 2017 |
In mostra, una serie di tele dai recenti lavori dell’artista: alcuni assemblaggi della serie Vâhana che Bernini realizza a partire da pitture che vengono successivamente installate tutte insieme e i nuovi disegni dalla serie Cargo Cult.
Romain Bernini è nato a Parigi nel 1979. Vive e lavora a Parigi.
Alcune mostre: 2017 Romain Bernini, Maison des arts de Châtillon, Châtillon, Francia; Creating Worlds, Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Corea del Sud; Galerie Clémence Boisanté, Montpellier; Anthropocene, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milano; Romain Bernini - Damien Cadio - Bruno Perramant, Galerie Dukan, Lipsia 2016 New Ecstatic Island, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Parigi; TRUE MIRROR, Espace Commines, Parigi 2015 Ecstatic Island, Dukan gallery, Lipsia; Grans Bwa, Frac Ile-de-France, La Vitrine, Parigi; Soma, Le Vog Art Center, Fontaine, Francia; 2014 Des hommes des mondes, Collège des Bernardins, Parigi, a cura di Alain Berland; 2013 Cargo Cult, Château de Taurines, Centrès, in collaborazione con il Musée des Abattoirs-FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Tolosa, a cura di Olivier Michelon; Les nuits obliques, Université Panthéon Sorbonne, galerie Michel Journiac, Parigi; 2012 Un entre-deux, Romain Bernini – Marc Desgrandchamps, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux
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Riccardo Crespi gallery presents Rainbow Chasers, the French artist Romain Bernini’s first solo exhibition in Italy.
Romain Bernini’s approach to painting is rooted in the concept of ritual, not only in the sense that the creation of the work is the manual realization of an idea, made through the artist’s day-to-day relationship with his canvas, but also in that of the search for subjects which can be connected with this notion: a liturgy, a mystery, a feeling of ecstasy.
His large figurative paintings establish a direct, almost physical relationship with the viewer, who is immersed in suspended landscapes, those of a tropical paradise, or confronted by personages that seem familiar, and yet are troubling. A recurrent feature is the mask, which allows him to speak at one and the same time of identity and of cultural and social mingling, with sometimes absurd combinations, metaphors for the contemporary melting pot.
In the exhibition, a series of pictures from the artist’s recent body of work, some of the assemblages from the Vâhana series that Bernini made out of distinct paintings which were then installed together to create another context, although an abstract one, for the figures in the foreground and new drawings from the Cargo Cult series.
Romain Bernini, born in Paris 1979, lives and works in Paris.
Selected exhibition: 2017 Romain Bernini, Maison des arts de Châtillon, Châtillon, France; Creating Worlds, Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, South Korea; Galerie Clémence Boisanté, Montpellier, France; Anthropocene, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan; Romain Bernini - Damien Cadio - Bruno Perramant, Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany 2016 New Ecstatic Island, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris; TRUE MIRROR, Espace Commines, Paris 2015 Ecstatic Island, Dukan gallery, Leipzig, Germany; Grans Bwa, Frac Ile-de-France, La Vitrine, Paris; Soma, Le Vog Art Center, Fontaine, France; 2014 Des hommes des mondes, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, curated by Alain Berland; 2013 Cargo Cult, Château de Taurines, Centrès, in collaboration with Musée des Abattoirs-FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, curated by Olivier Michelon; Les nuits obliques, Université Panthéon Sorbonne, galerie Michel Journiac, Paris; 2012 Un entre-deux, Romain Bernini – Marc Desgrandchamps, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux
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Elisa Bertaglia nasce a Rovigo nel 1983. Si iscrive nel 2002 all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, presso l'Atelier di Pittura del professor Carlo Di Raco, conseguendo la Laurea di I livello nel 2006 e la Laurea di II livello in Pittura nel 2009. Dal 2008 inizia una ricca attività espositiva, instaurando diverse collaborazioni con critici, curatori e giornalisti. Tra le mostre principali: “Lo stato dell'arte” (54. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte La Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Accademie, Tese di San Cristoforo - Arsenale, Venezia, 2011), “Dolomiti contemporanee” (Sospirolo, 2011; Taibon Agordino, 2012; Casso, 2013; Borca di Cadore, 2014), “Elisa Bertaglia” (MZ Gallery, Augsburg, 2014), “Bindwood” (Banca Sistema, Milano, 2015), “Arteam Cup” (Officina delle Zattere, Venezia, 2015; Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria, 2016). Nell'ambito di Arteam Cup 2016 si è aggiudicata il Premio Speciale Residenza Officine Saffi Milano. Vive e lavora a Rovigo.
