Bernard Vié

After his studies at the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he became an architect, then turned to monumental sculpture, composed with landscape and architecture. He thus responded to around thirty orders in varied materials and expressions.

At the same time, he developed bronzes, often animal. His language seeks a balance between exact anatomy, symbolic dimension and contained lyricism. The composition is based on a drawing and exact proportions, which allows freedom, fantasy of gesture. In order to emphasize the eloquence of a movement, he creates gaps, representing only part of the subject.

Painting has taken an important place in recent years. We find there the dialogue between drawing, materials and architecture, between the line, the surface and the volume. It composes empty or constructed spaces, inhabited by characters, as if staged.

His achievements oscillate between a secret and tender intimacy, and the often baroque lyricism of a theatricality of great allure. In a very personal drawing we feel his ambition to simply express life.

2021 winner of the TAYLOR FOUNDATION, Joêl Dabin prize, numerous solo exhibitions.