Paul Bertier

Paul Bertier likes to combine rigor and sensitivity, conceptual and manual work. Marked during a trip in

Asia by the strong contrast between mass architecture and landscape, where the city appears as a fictonal

space, he examines urbanity and its implementation, its edges, its borders, its horizons. To explore this

imaginary, he builts ambivalent images. Spaces and structures he shows are always in balance, ready to

change, disappear or collapse. He also searches this tension with plastic choices : between realism of

lights and abstraction of surfaces, between sensation of spatiality and physicality of materials. He imagines

his pictures both as tangible objects and projection spaces so that the viewer forms his own story in

these unstable areas, in suspens.