BERNARD BEZZINA
Born in 1956,
Lives and works in Toulon, France and Tuscany, Italy
Bernard Bezzina is a French artist, sculptor and painter that lives between the south of France and Italy. It was his mother who orientated him towards artistic activity, with whom he shared the same passion for drawing.
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Bezzina's struggles with matter are at the center of his artistic research. He deconstructs the figure in order to recreate it. Bezzina's goal lies in an almost impossible search for total art. This exploratory work requires the density of sculpture.
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In his principle of "DIVISION", the artist investigates the materials he deconstructs while producing fragments and brings them back together to enable their rebirth. At the same time, he moves from division to "amplification", a kind of alchemy that allows the chosen fragment to empower a new order, which becomes an independent entity.
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Within the ethics of sustainable development, Bernard Bezzina demonstrates a position that respects the elements of nature. He works with cotton paper made after an ancestral process in an old grinder. He tears this thick skin only to recompose it on a map. Operating by layers, he covers it with multiple coats of natural pigments, layer by layer, in order to reach the desired density. The end result looks like tanned leather full of incisions and traces that create different renderings.
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Works Available:
SHOWS AND INSTALLATIONS (SELECTION)
2023
Podgorny Robinson Gallery solo show, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Pietrasanta, exhibition in the city
Permanent installation, "3 éléments"
Pièce unique in Monaco in the extension Mareterra (15m, 12m, 10m)
2018
Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
2015 - 2017
«Méridien Beach Plaza», Monaco
2016
BRAFA, Bruxelles, Belgium
Sculptures Monumentales, Saint-Tropez, France
Monochromaniac, Opera Gallery, New York, USA
2015
BRAFA, Bruxelles, Belgium
PAD, Paris, France
Art Fair, Antibes, France
Masterpiece, London, France
Jardin des Arts, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
2014
30 Anni/Museo dei Bozzetti, Palazzo Panichi, Pietrasanta, Italy
Galerie Hurtebize, Paris, France
Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France
Art fair : Art Elysées, Paris, France
2013
Biennale Borgo di Montone, Italy
Homo Faber. Il pensiero e la Mano, Piazza del Duomo, Pietrasanta, Italy
2012
Château Sainte Roseline, Les Arcs, France
2011
Citadelle de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
2009
Printemps des Arts, Palais Abdellia, Tunis, Tunisie
2008
Galerie Olga Lamdon, Bruxelles, Belgium
2007
Domaine de Trians, Néoules, France
Gorges de Pennafort, Callas, France
Galerie Anne Lettré, Paris, France
Contemporary Fine Art, Saint-Tropez, France
2006
Domaine de Trians, Néoules, France
2004
Maison du Cygne, Six-Fours-les-Plages, France
Banque de Gothard, Monaco
2002
Création / Exposition de l'affiche "Jazz à Toulon", France
2001
Banque du Gothard, Monaco
VIP Saint-Tropez, France
AWARDS
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2020
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
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