The exhibition will include more than 30 paintings spread over the entire space as well as site-specific painting installations produced by the artist. The show will last until May the 7th.
In the course of a 20 years-long career, Romain Bernini has been remarkably consistent in his choice of themes and topics; shamans, mythical birds, exotic plants and animals combine to form a universe that is both familiar and unsettling. In his paintings, Bernini invites the audience to rethink their relationship with what they regularly see in everyday life or to connect their own experience with that being lived by the characters in the paintings. Over time, Bernini's images haunt the imaginations of viewers and suggest strategies to deal with psychosomatic experiences.
Whilst Romain Bernini's technique may at first seem conventional, with oil painting used to depict subjects in a traditional way, a closer look at individual works reveals a deft combination of abstraction and figuration. In many of his paintings, a vivid and variegated abstract background forms the backdrop from which the subjects emerge. Often looking like they are floating in space or lacking any definitive perspective, his characters seem to inhabit some sort of parallel universe where the usual laws of nature are bent or redundant.
The paintings presented in the show span almost 10 years of creation and include nearly all series produced by the artist. As such, they represent an ideal introduction to Bernini's creative process and creative language.
Born in 1979 in Montreuil, France, Romain Bernini is a graduate of the Sorbonne and is now a professor of painting at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris where he lives and works. His work has been shown extensively in institutions and galleries amongst which Seoul National University of Art, MO.CO contemporary museum of Montpellier, Fine Art Museum of Chambéry, and Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve. In 2025 he will hold a solo exhibition both at the royal abbey and at the museum of Fontevraud. He has also been a resident of the Villa Medicis in Rome. His work is part of museums and public collections such as the National Center for the Art (CNAP), MAC VAL (contemporary museum of Val de Marne), Emerige Foundation, Société Général bank Collection and Francès Collection.
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