Bernard Pras, born in 1952, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, turned to engraving and perfected the principle of aquagravure at the end of the 1980s. It was in 1994 that he began to produce installations and assemblies of heterogeneous recycled objects (toys, tools, plastic bottles, pieces of wood or metal, fabrics, etc.). Like Arcimboldo, he cleverly arranges these objects to form a portrait. Using a phenomenon called anamorphosis, the artist creates stunning optical illusions whose true configuration can only be observed from a certain angle. One step aside and a whole work finds itself distorted! This principle of anamorphosis has since been the common thread of the artist, who tries his hand at installations worked in the form of varied inventories inspired by famous works of art (Crucifixion, Van Gogh, Francis Bacon... ) or emblematic personalities of contemporary society (Albert Einstein, Che Guevara, Gainsbourg...).
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