by Alexandre Bavard
Painting : cotton
80 x 76 x 6 cm 31.5 x 29.9 x 2.4 inch
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Painting: cotton
Dimensions cm • inch
80 x 76 x 6 cm 31.5 x 29.9 x 2.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: France
Mixed media, cotton, resin, and acrylic
"Jimny"
Alexandre Bavard
What is left of us at the dawn of our forgetfulness? Where does the end begin? Where does the beginning hide? Alexandre Bavard's work thwarts temporalities. He slips between the vestiges of a chimerical future and the hope of a mythified past. He declines forms and supports, escaping time, but also spaces, and even geography. Where does it come from? Is a leftover tire, a logoed T-shirt or a folk costume clues or enigmas? And what if the challenge of his work was precisely not to solve anything, not to question but to give free rein to the vertigo of interpretations.
Whether it is, among others, Transfr, Neo-k, or Neo-archeologia, the astonishment is the same. He who contemplates finds himself in the impossibility to apprehend the universe set up before his eyes. The forms, the colors, the images, are proposals of intensities which suit us or not, which cross us or not, but which open there, in front of us, without anything to understand, nor to dialectize. This is even more striking in his performances. Attending Bulky requires no special attention, no specific respect, no special understanding, verifiable, assessable, but even more pertinently, it's just a matter of being there, of risking ourselves to feel, of letting the electric current unfold within us. To be in the intoxication of a spirituality that precedes us, surpasses us. It is not a wise, erudite art, but an art that creates an outside, as Gilles Deleuze envisaged it, another world.
But perhaps another questioning emerges through these precious wanderings. It is the question of identity that we must face. When the language stutters, when the tones get tangled, when the signals get blurred, what becomes of us? Is it still possible to say "I"? The rules no longer apply and identity becomes a search that sometimes takes the form of a fight, a war to be fought through. The movements jerk, the dress becomes armor, the pieces break, his art is displayed as the place of a general disruption of the being, leaving us perplexed and therefore fascinated. Or better, fascinated because perplexed. This is the case of the ARMVR series, where everything seems to concur towards the same idea, the one that we must relearn, reorient what we think we know, consider objects, fabrics, materials differently, accept new consequences, and if they are improbable, so much the better. Fur, crochet, wool, plaster or metal? Where does solidity lie? Everything is worth. Everything is radical. Alexandre uses art to get out of art, to get out of oneself, to get out of norms, to get out of time, to get out of space. And to see, what is outside, and how this outside transforms us. To explore, deconstruct, dig into one's being to the point where the strange becomes the familiar.
Then in the light of these electric intensities, revolt emerges, provoking a Short Circuit. His pieces are not to be described, they are not spectres of catalog, they are audacities, equivocations, otherness, differences. Alexandre Bavard offers us this world to come. A world with an unexpected face. What remains of us at the dawn of our forgetfulness? The amplitude of an intensity that allows itself to be conquered.
- Marie Robert
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Born in 1987, lives and work in Paris.
Alexandre Bavard is based in Paris, France and is a Alumni of École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. Alexandre Bavard can be seen as a playwright, and performer, all in one. His work expands from fine art sculpture, prints, and paintings into video, music and dance. Bavard creates various worlds influenced by his Georgian roots, science fiction, and for the need of escapism and discovery.
Bavard is interested in creating a visual language, a form of expression that transcends any specific medium, and is fueled by repetition, movement, and flow. His broad range of works are tied by the theme of a post-urban world, meaningful artifacts of a past utopia that its significance has long been lost and repurposed as rarity and artifact. Bavard has titled this series,
Neo-Archelogia, which refers to his process of casting the shape or transferring the impression of these found artifacts into sculptures and prints.
Prizes /
« Jeune révélation talents » urban art price 2017. ADAGP / Palais de Tokyo Prix de Nôel, Le magasin. Grenoble
Residency /
Swatch Art Residency, Shanghai, China
Conferences /
Studio Gallery. Shanghai TED TALK, Bari, 2017
Exhibitions /
January 2020 Think less, stupid more. Studio Gallery. Shanghai, China
December 2019 Let us In, Dusseldorf, Germany
October 2019 Unexpected, Fort Smith, Arkansas, Usa NO STRESS, screening exhibition.Tick Tack gallery, Ghent, Belgium
September 2019 Let us in together, Clichy
August 2019 Time to upgrade.Garikula Art center. Georgia. After the Future. Triumph Gallery. Moscow June 2019 Vilnius Art Fair. Lithuania
May 2019 Grappling. Performance. Palais de Tokyo. France
April 2019 End, groupshow. New Image Art Gallery. Los Angeles
March 2019 TRANSFR, Pt2 Gallery. Okland.USA Transfr#2. Cluster Configuration. Roma . Italy
November 2018 RER.B, Meca Art fair, Justkids. Puerto Rico.USA
August 2018 Aqua-V. Museum of Modern Art , Catanzaro. Italy
September 2018 G.Supporterz. V5 Galery, Neuchâtel. Switzerland
April 2018, Coco Galba «The carnaval is over», Macao, Milan. Italy
February 2018 Set adrift on memory bliss, Pablo’s Birthday Galery, New York. USA SYSTEM, Lepeuve, Paris. France
December 2017 Konkret1987, Gr_und Galery, with the support of the French Institute in Berlin. Germany
November 2017 Collective exhibition «Qui es-tu lorsque personne ne te regarde ?», Maëlle Galery, Paris. France SHORT CIRCUIT, Block House Galery, Tokyo. Japan
September 2017 SCULP, Collective exhibition, Needles and pen Gallery, San Francisco. USA Uncanny, exhibition / performance, Tunisie
June 2017 BULKY, exhibition / performance, Palais de Tokyo. Paris
Mai 2016 OZONE, P38 Galery / Paris. France
Decembre 2014 Exposition de Noël, Ancien musée de peinture, Grenoble. France
September 2014 Toy, FRAC Nord-Pas de-Calais / Dunkerque. France
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