Presentation
Having spent part of his childhood in his grand-mother's grocery store, he has developed a strong and privileged relationship with objects and inventories of all sorts. At the crossing of pop art and performance, in-between figuration and ?dis-figuration?, Bernard Pras?s work doesn't leave any viewer indifferent?
A graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse in 1974, Bernard Pras is a virtuoso of the anamorphosis and of the juxtaposition of eclectic objects, carefully chosen to be in resonance with his subjects; he creates an image that is comprehensible from a single, pre-defined point of view. this is the art of the secret perspective that Dürer was talking about?
Christian-Louis Eclimont says of the artist:
"An athlete of the optical effect, Pras moves between the infinitely composite and the infinitely composed, using his eye as a camera that captures the patterns while they are being projected.?"
Giving up his paintbrushes and painting for the hand, the object and a camera, he has been appropriating images of art history and contemporary society since 1998. The color and the stroke become object and the composition - an installation punctuated by dozens of images. Without photography, the installations would remain the privilege of a few, unique spectators of this metamorphosis during which the act of recycling becomes art.
Without this final moment that is the last picture taken, marked by a luminous flash, when the artist transforms the three dimensions in only two for the greatest pleasure of our eyes, Bernard Pras?s work could not exist.
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152 - Van Gogh
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
210 . BASHUNG (Vertige de l'amour)
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
90. Le Bon (Clint Eastwood)
Bernard Pras
Photography - 160 x 120 x 5 cm Photography - 63 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€9,000
109. Guernica
Bernard Pras
Photography - 120 x 280 x 5 cm Photography - 47.2 x 110.2 x 2 inch
€16,000
Sotigui Kouyaté
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
256. Van Gogh
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
96. Christ de Loudun
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
Jeune fille à la perle
Bernard Pras
Photography - 160 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 63 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€11,000
Le vieil homme triste
Bernard Pras
Photography - 160 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 63 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€11,000
L'empire des sens : hommage au film franco-japonais de Nagisa Oshima
Bernard Pras
Photography - 120 x 160 x 4 cm Photography - 47.2 x 63 x 1.6 inch
€11,000
Michael Jackson
Bernard Pras
Photography - 160 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 63 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€11,000
178. Descartes
Bernard Pras
Sculpture - 120 x 80 x 65 cm Sculpture - 47.2 x 31.5 x 25.6 inch
€26,000
Il était une fois
Bernard Pras
Sculpture - 78 x 66 x 26 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 26 x 10.2 inch
€20,000
185 - We can do it
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
185 - We can do it
Bernard Pras
Sculpture - 49 x 64 x 56 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 25.2 x 22 inch
€24,000
248. Le petit mendiant
Bernard Pras
Sculpture - 150 x 200 x 106 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 78.7 x 41.7 inch
€35,000
226. Pinocchio
Bernard Pras
Sculpture - 100 x 81 x 45 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 31.9 x 17.7 inch
€25,000
Le Christ de Loudun
Bernard Pras
Photography - 160 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 63 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€11,000
Exhibitions dedicated to Bernard Pras
Galerie BAYART
Collective exhibition
From May 23, 2024 to November 6, 2024
Galerie BAYART
Bernard Pras
From June 1, 2023 to November 11, 2023
Galerie BAYART
Exposition collective - Sculptures
From May 19, 2021 to September 12, 2021
Galerie BAYART
Héros. Partie II
From May 30, 2019 to September 15, 2019
Galerie BAYART
Bernard Pras - Illusion
From September 23, 2018 to October 6, 2018
Galerie BAYART
Bernard Pras - Illusion
From July 28, 2018 to July 28, 2018
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