Bernard Bouin art exhibition, Paris

The Town Hall of the 6th arrondissement in Paris is hosting an exhibition of Bernard Bouin’s paintings from 5 September to 1 October 2022 in the Salon du Vieux Colombier with the support of the Festival Committee, Cultural and Social Action of the 6th, Les Basses Reunis, and Artemi.

Bernard Bouin (born 1945) is a French painter of landscapes, urban landscapes, and still life drawings. The exhibition includes videos and 56 paintings, covering the period 2002 to 2022.

In Lydia Harambourg’s book Bernard Bouin Paintings from Reality to Mystery (2019), she states that ‘Born of its own light, its suggestive force, its equally translucent colours, Bernard Bouin’s work is permeated with silence and stillness in an era so turbulent and so noisy.’

In this series, his works also marry painting, music, and poetry.

The exhibition begins with the canvas "The Traveler and his Shadow" (2022) which refers to Friedrich Nietzsche's aphorism 295 "Et in Arcadia Ego" written in 1879, and the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin from the Louvre Museum.

Also broadcast is an excerpt from the 2015 video of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) with the original text and its musical alliterations in the French translation by Stéphane Mallarmé. There is also an excerpt from the video of "The Afternoon a a Fauna" by Stéphane Mallarmé with the prelude by Claude Debussy (2104) to continue his musical journey.

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