2021 artists gallery
From August 13 to 22 in Brioude (Jean Pradier school) 53 artists to discover for the 4th edition of the Decades of Painting festival.
SPECIAL GUEST
Sheraf
Sheraf studied graphic design and discovered the world of street art with Banksy, Jef Aérosol, C215, Mist and many others!
Two very unique universes appear. The illustration where he plays with the curves, the shapes and the complexity of the details, giving birth to naive characters, and the painting with a more marked, more realistic but always dynamic line: living canvases. It flourishes in the portrait, models it and what bubbles inside is expressed with the brush, acrylic, posca, chalk ...
Today he works in the field of visual arts for various projects, continues his creative work and prepares new exhibitions in France and abroad.
His illustrations and paintings open onto a diverse and contemporary world. Dreaminess and realism mingle in the same movement, imbued with bright colors and street art.
VIP ARTISTS
Beji
The love of painting comes to him from his childhood. Self-taught artist, Béji has dedicated his life to the art of painting almost every day for twenty years.
His influences are diverse, ranging from tribal art in Africa and the islands, to the great impressionist and expressionist masters such as Monnet, Manet, Renoir, Matisse, of whom he is very much admired ... The emotion that a work gives him, this is what particularly affects him. Béji does not define himself as an intellectual of painting but as an artist who evolves in sensation. His adolescence spent in Australia greatly helped shape his gaze, nourished his senses for 5 years and awakened his interest in Aboriginal culture. His taste for color comes from there, everything being very colorful. Later, exploring the museums of France, the Netherlands, Germany, he came face to face with Miró's Three Great Blues which had a strong impact on him, with Dutch painters, modern ones ...
Béji's works are strong, expressive, they hook. Many of them have also been covered over by others over time. Under each painting there are 10 below, abstract, figurative, he reuses them and covers them. Attracted at first glance by abstraction, his foray into the figurative is quite recent. Seeing it as a "widening of the horizon" after a dive into the most minimalist abstract, he experiments with new techniques for a prolific artistic renewal.
Arno Bigot
Self-taught artist, he has developed a passion for the arts since childhood. This building engineer has been drawing for 30 years and painting since 2018, loving capturing the moment on the canvas and playing with proportions and perspectives to offer a narrative thread with several levels of reading. From portraiture to large historical and mythological frescoes, profile of an artist driven by an insatiable quest for truth.Arno Bigot has always been inspired by the fleetingness of the moment, this precise moment when everything changes, this second which supposes a before and one after. So for him to create a painting consists in telling a story beyond consensus. He wants to introduce a dialogue between the work and the spectator, to shake up his certainties. For this portrait enthusiast, the work must be faithful. More than the person, she reflects her soul, her story. “I try to translate the personality of an individual, an atmosphere, the setting gives an atmosphere, the play of perspectives generates a notion of imbalance by seizing the neutral moment of passage from one state to another. It is an invitation to enter a story strewn with clues to touch the emotion by upsetting our usual thought patterns… ”
2020 artists gallery
From August 7 to 16 in Brioude (Jean Pradier school) 51 artists to discover for the 3rd edition of the Decades of Painting festival.
SPECIAL GUEST
Olivier CARDIN
"Painting is a utopia"
In parallel to graphic art studies at Corvisart high school, then at the Paris Deco Arts School Olivier Cardin came to painting through drawing and through the works of Nicolas de Staël, Van Gogh, Modigliani and Soutine.
In his unique works he seeks to paint or draw the weaknesses of humanity, its shortcomings, its mistakes, the doubts, the obscure battles that embrace us between good and evil, love or hatred.
With the soul of a child, he seeks the gesture, the universal line, the balance, the harmony of colors or human or animal shapes, to share an emotion, a joy, a movement, a feeling, looks, tears, a smile, an opinion and find the universal alliance so that all immersed in his creations can find comfort, a sharing, find part of their history.
VIP ARTISTS
Soline GARRY
Dream and contemplation in illustration
From her childhood spent on a sailboat with her family, Soline Garry has retained a taste for the great outdoors and the horizon, for contemplation and dreams. And an enchantment for the animal and vegetable world and the forces of Nature.
As a child, she learned to draw alongside her father, a former theater decorator and marine painter, then for 10 years with the painter and engraver Roland Sénéca.
The doors then open to music, and for 15 years she accompanies various cultural projects and Brazilian and Senegalese artists, among others.
With motherhood, drawing awakens, which becomes a necessity over the months. And projects were born soon, such as the illustration of a musical tale, the cover of the record of the great storyteller Muriel Bloch, published by the Yves Rocher Foundation, then exhibitions in the Toulouse region where she now lives and outside her local territory. .
Olga KATAEVA-ROCHFORD
Russian sweetness and poetry
Olga Kataeva-Rochford was born in Leningrad in 1986 and spent her childhood in Russia. After a professional training in art in Saint Petersburg where the Russian Museum, the Hermitage and the Fine Arts made her discover the work of the masters, she continued with a doctorate on the medium of drawing in Paris, the city where she lives currently at the crossroads of cultures. Traveling the world with her brushes, savoring the diversity of landscapes, faces and cultures, she seeks in her art to capture the spirit of places and transform it into universal and poetic images that make you dream and escape the mind. . Through these timeless parables painted with tempera, a technique used since the Middle Ages, she seeks to debanalize everyday life, restore freshness to the gaze and bring out the invisible.
She exhibits regularly in France and internationally and her works are kept in museums in Russia and in private international collections.
Gallery 2019
From August 9th to August 18th in Brioude ( Old Jean Pradier’s school ) 54 artists are exhibited during the 2nde edition of the festival of les Décades de la peinture
SPECIAL GUEST
Antoine COLIN
Body flight between realistic and imaginary momentum
Born in 1977 in the North, graduated in 2000 from the Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Cambrai, Antoine Colin has been a graphic designer since then.
In 2011 he rediscovered with passion the concrete tools and supports, dear to him, and allow him to express himself more freely through drawing, enjoyed since childhood and painting, a family story…
Always influenced by the strong and caricatural images of comic books, illustration and graphics, admiring and passionate about the sensitive approach, sometimes tortured and unique to the human body offered by artists such as Klimt, Schiele, Bacon or Weisbuch… He does not however ignore the great classics of the renaissance.
This gives to his representations of the body this singular character which reveals ambiguities assumed between classicism and modernity, between realism and interpretation, between imagination and reality, as if to reflect the contradictions of the human being.
VIP ARTISTS
Stéphane CATTANEO
The art of pictorial improvisation
His interest in creation dates back to childhood when he devoured the Spirou newspaper to which his father had subscribed: he dreamed of becoming a famous cartoonist. He later discovered painting and developed in adolescence a keen interest in the work of Paul Klee, a period in which he decided to become a famous painter. Then it was the considerable shock of Jazz in adulthood: it vibrated to the sound of Coltrane, Shepp, Dolphy and so many other musicians of the free jazz movement to whom it wanted to resemble. However, Stéphane Cattaneo did not want to become a famous saxophonist: we cannot do everything. From then on he endeavoured through the practice of pictorial improvisation to express emotions according to a rhythm, motifs, an alphabet that has a lot to do with music and now produces large-format works on stage with English, American or French musicians.
He lives and works in France, in a small village in Morbihan called La Roche Bernard.
Eric DEMELIS
Raw art, compulsive and instinctive
Éric Demelis was born in 1974 in Haute-Savoie.
He has been drawing assiduously since 2011, inspired by both raw art and comic books. Touched by the Flemish painters and more particularly by Pieter Brueghel and Jérôme Bosch, who will soon inspire his boundless theme, he worked tirelessly and trained as a self-taught artist. The world of comic books, his infra-narrative language, teaches him to compose his drawings and his paintings, like puzzles, which advance, piece by piece, according to the shapes and characters nested in each other. Compulsively he fills spaces with strange, ambiguous and tenacious characters. His painting, like his drawing, is an act of liberation from the difficulty of getting out of oneself.
He works mainly in Chinese ink and pen. After several group exhibitions in 2012, he exhibited for the first time at the gallery «alter-art» in Grenoble in 2013. He currently lives and works in Grenoble.
Thierry NOGUE
About the poetry of the little
Thierry Nogue places his work at the crossroads of two principles: «Making meaningless things mean» of the Arte povera movement and «In the future, everyone will be entitled to their quarter of an hour of fame», of Andy Wahrol being hijacked for the sake of things.
After his time at the Fine Arts School in Mannheim, Germany, which was inspired by the foundations of the Bauhaus, he developed a form of work which he called “the concept of the enhancement of the little”, applied both to the subject and to the support, evolving according to his assignments, whether in artistic residence near Leipzig, within a collective of plastic artists in Rennes, or during interior architecture projects in Spain and which, in its current form, is based on flat, resized paints through a surface volume.
Thierry Nogue lives and works near Pornic (44).
2018 gallery
From August 3rd to August 12th in Brioude ( Ste Thérèse’s school ) 27 artists were exhibited during the 1st edition of the festival of les Décades de la peinture
SPECIAL GUEST
Philippe Caspar,
the explosion of colours
Born in Strasbourg in 1982, P. Caspar is a professional graphic designer; autodidact artist, mostly influenced by cinema, literature, music and comic strip. He has been practicing drawing since childhood with first models of artists such as Bernie Wrightson and Frank Frazetta. Later came Marcel Gotlib, Claude Serre, Bill Watterson and Robert Crumb, whose quality and strength of the design gave him a close admiration for idolatry. The aesthetics of the films of John Carpenter, George Roméro or David Cronenberg, the atmosphere of Philip K Dick and Stephen King’s books help to forge a fantastic filter through which much of his pictorial work passes. Attracted by abstraction he works his colors in order to find their raw force, almost independently of the drawing serving as the basis for the canvas, without ever, nevertheless, losing sight of it.
ARTISTES VIP
Lady Caviar,
« Dramatico Glamor »
Born in 1970, Lady Caviar is a self-taught polymorphic artist, painter and visual artist.
Heir to R. Linchtenstein’s Pop Art, as well as to figurative art in general, since 2004, she adds her “Lady Caviar touch” as a tribute to the romantic era of the 18th century, performed in a resolutely contemporary style.
Her artistic work always balances between personal narrative and collective memory, between humour and drama.
She paints what she sees, what she perceives in a glamorous graphic style, like the titles she gives to her works.
"Painting is another way to love," said Séraphine Louis, that is exactly how Lady Caviar saw it.
Eric Guéna,
dream and beauty sensor
It is a deep, atmospheric and poetic art that Eric Guéna gives up.
Born in 1953, architect with a doctorate in aesthetics and art sciences, he took several courses as a Japanese and Chinese art restorer, initiating himself to Sumi-e art and work with gold leaf before painting his own universe.
Impregnated with both western and eastern pictorial techniques, he combines these different know-how to let develop the singular atmosphere of its paintings.
During the 2000s, his figurative work presented in several international exhibitions served as a basis for developing a very personal abstract universe.
A work whose main theme is the environment, whether it is natural or transformed by man.
Antony Squizzato,
« Pop-constructivist » artist
Born in 1975, he began his career as a visual artist at the end of 2013, after fifteen years as a director of a digital agency. Polymorphic artist, Squizzato uses the technology of his time, digital, global, algorithmic, as well as the oil techniques of the great masters. In his works he describes a world where the discourse of brands has more resonance than that of governments, where individuals alone behind their screens are struggling to find meaning. A world he fed for many years. And the end of an era that is no longer sufficient to satisfy the frustrations and desires of possessing. Pop-constructivism is obvious to him: the use of a functional graphic design, which calls on the ability to abstract everyone to move, to become aware, and to act more than to suffer.
