Mots lourds, 2019

by Bruce Clarke

Painting : acrylic, collage 89 x 116 cm 35 x 45.7 inch

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Hand-signed by artist

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Medium

Painting: acrylic, collage

Dimensions cm inch

89 x 116 cm 35 x 45.7 inch Height x Width x Depth

Framing

Black wood floater frame

Artwork dimensions including frame

90 x 140 cm 35.4 x 55.1 inch


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Portrait

Political and historical

Africa

Colonialism

Language

White

Yellow

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: France

Visual artist and photographer, Bruce Clarke was born in London in 1959 from South African parents. He now lives in France.

It was at the Fine Arts School at Leeds University in the 1980’s that he was initiated to the Art and Language movement around Michael Baldwin, David Bainbridge, Terry Atkinson, Harold Hurrell. In the wake of these pioneering conceptual artists, Clarke’s work engages with contemporary history, the writing and transmission of this history and hopes to stimulate thought on the contemporary world and its representations. Deeply anchored in a school of critical figuration, his artistic research integrates codes finally to use them to criticise and demystify structures of power and injustice.

It was whilst doing a photo reportage in Rwanda for this collective in the days following the end of the genocide that he realised the importance of art in the process of the conservation of memory and the writing of history. A few years later he started to work on the creation of a memorial site near Kigali, the Garden of Memory, a monumental installation project on-going since 2000, in close collaboration with survivors’ families, civil society associations and the Rwandese institutions as well as UNESCO. He later worked on a large scale mural project for the 20th commemoration of the genocide in Rwanda entitled Upright Men in Rwanda and elsewhere in the world (Ouidah, Geneva, Lausanne, Brussels, Paris, Montreal etc…)

As resident artist invited by the Conseil Général de Guadeloupe (French Caribbean), he produced an exhibition “Fragments of tomorrow’s History” relating the link between the slave trade, colonialism and globalisation. Collaborator in the Lille based Fest-Africa organisation’s project on Rwanda: Write, Film, Paint in memory, he has also worked with the Afrika Cultural Centre in Johannesburg and led visual arts workshops in South Africa, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Benin, Tanzania, Zambia and France.

As a photographer, he has published photo reports on South Africa, the reconstruction of Rwanda, the return of Liberian refugees and Palestine.

His work has been exhibited in Europe, in Africa and the United States.
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Bruce Clarke

United Kingdom  • 1959

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Bruce Clarke was born in 1959 in London. He studied Fine Arts at the Leeds University in Great Britain. Visual artist and photographer, now based in Paris, he has exhibited in France and abroad since 1989.

His art deals with contemporary history, the writing and transmission of this history. He would like to see his work as stimulating reflection on the world and the representation that is made of it. Recognizing that art provides a privileged domain of expression in a complex world, he situates himself outside of an overtly self-centred or over-personalized form of contemporary art, suggesting that one should not be a bystander in the face of history, but that individual activity can attempt to play a role in the making of that history.

He has collaborated with Fest'Africa in Lille, France on the project "Rwanda: Write, film, paint for memory", and with the Afrika Cultural Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2002 he was artist in residence in Guadeloupe, French Caribbean at the invitation of the Conseil Général. The residence finished with a large exhibition entitled “Fragments of tomorrows history", dealing with the intrinsic links between slavery, colonialism and globalisation.

He has created several posters for films, including “Fools", 1997, “Silmandé", 1998, “Edvard Munch", 2004, “Retour à Gorée", 2008, etc. As a photographer he has also published reportages on South Africa, Rwanda, the return of Liberian refugees, Palestine, etc. Involved as an activist in the anti-apartheid struggle, he has always tried to integrate political commitment in visual art research, placing his work in a current of critical figuration.

Author of the on-going project, "The Garden of Memory" a memorial sculpture for the victims of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The project has received the supported of UNESCO and is being realized in partnership with the main associations of the civil society in Rwanda.


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