May

3

Eric Bourdon exhibition

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   Characters drawn via improvisation and painted with acrylic colors invest all media : from paintings to the coffee table, to the dressmaker’s bust… A work of shaping lines in chaos, in order to bring out always new and atypical creatures.

 

   Schemes Gallery (specializing in contemporary art and authentic Indian furniture), 27 rue de l’Hôpital Militaire in Lille. Free admission. Wed-Sat 1:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

 

www.ericbourdon.com

 

 

Square-Annuaire     DiamsCity     Annuaire.mesprogrammes

 

Apr

29

Grant Wood

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   Grant Wood (1891-1942), American artist from Iowa, was one of the three great artists of the movement called ‘regionalism’ (in the 1930s). He gave so much relief to the land of Iowa, that you can nearly smell its soil…
 

“My early work is the result of going around that very territory where I lived and not seeing it.”

G. Wood

 
Painting: Stone City, Iowa (1930)
 
see www.monograffi.com/wood.htm
 
 

Mar

28

Naoto Hattori

March 28, 2012 | by | Leave a Comment

 
BAD DAY
 
Giclee Print
 
 

Japanese painter from NYC. Naoto Hattori never paints with computers:

“Art is all about taking risks, follow your intuition and most of all getting your hands dirty with paint.”

 

http://www.wwwcomcom.com

http://naotohattori.com

 
 

Mar

25

Eric Bourdon : his new girl in the window of the Schemes Gallery !

March 25, 2012 | by | Leave a Comment

In the window of the Schemes Gallery in Lille, the creatures of Claudia or Denis Bisch have all eyes turned to the ‘last great one’ of Eric Bourdon.

 

 

This is the second bust painted by Eric Bourdon. The first one was the front of a high-impact polystyrene bust mounted on a frame. It is this time a dressmaker’s dummy worked at 360°, rotating on its stand or to be laid flat on a table.

 

 

The drawing remains the same whether the surface is a canvas or a 3D object. But besides the unexpected decorative aspect, the idea is to join the artistic concept itself (creation of character, body, creatures…) with the medium itself. In other words, to ‘give body’ to the concept…

 
The Schemes Gallery is located at 27 rue de l’Hôpital Militaire in Lille.

Open from Wednesday to Saturday 1pm-6:30pm.

Underground station: République.

(->Map)
 
 
Photos © Eric Bourdon
 

Mar

13

‘World Street’ exhibition in Lille

March 13, 2012 | by | Leave a Comment

“Among the cross-Channel talents featured in this group street art exhibition are Miss Tic – a doyenne of the Parisian Graffiti scene courtesy of her sultry portraits of pin-ups captioned with incisive haikus – and Shoreditch-based James Cochran, who has made his mark on the London streets with his portraits of rough sleepers.

22 March – 15 7 April, free, Galerie Raison d’Art”

Source: ‘Metropolitan’, March 2012

 

pdf of the exhibition (in French)

 

(!) last day of exhibition, as indicated on the gallery website (http://raisondart.com) : 7th of April.

Raison d’Art is located at 153 Bis Boulevard de la Liberté in Lille (just near the Palais des Beaux Arts), open Thursday to Saturday 2-7pm.

 
 

Feb

18

Nicola Verlato: modern & aged

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In the same vein as the Polish painter Jacek Yerka or US painter Mark Ryden, Nicola Verlato is an Italian who paints modern subjects in the most classical way, combining today’s spirit and the ancient order of representation.

 

www.nicolaverlato.com

 
 
Image © Nicola Verlato: The Deep Religiosity of Capitalism
 
 

Nov

8

Web directories: Art / Painters / Painting / Artists…

November 8, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment


Brief selection of English-speaking directories, which have recently brought visitors to www.ericbourdon.com.

You will also find many other artistic sites selected by the directories administrators and continuously evaluated by the visitors. For getting your bearings on the web of art, or registering your own website on efficient directories…

 

ubound.info / Arts   linkcentre.com   ids.in / Artists   saferpage.com   sitereviewer.net   websitespromotiondirectory.com / visual-arts

square-annuaire.com   ofcourse.us

deemx.com / Painting   paintings-directory.com   web-liens.fr   hotfrog.co.uk   webmaster-rank.info / culture-artiste   link.or.id   kk04.com allsitessorted.com / Arts / Artists

 

Oct

26

Galerie Schèmes: Sunny fall with Jean-Claude Dailly

October 26, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment


Jean-Claude Dailly, it’s about 33 years of painting, including 31 years of exhibition at the Galerie Schèmes, i.e. as many years as the famous gallery itself. First artist of the gallery, chronologically and in importance, it is with him that Schèmes has been built, developed and maintained.

His recipe: sunny landscapes of Provence, of the Mediterranean, realized with the knife using a technique and a style imitated but never equaled anywhere (that of a son and grand-son of a painter… recognizable among all), and an impressive production enabling you to walk away with ‘your Dailly’ without ruining yourself, so you feel like on holiday at home all year round.

No link to offer to a website, he does not need it, his paintings leaving on their own for 30 years ago without interruption…

The crisis?? ’doesn’t know…

 

 

Paintings: © Jean-Claude Dailly

Photo of the wall of Dailly at the Schemes Gallery in April 2011.

 

Sep

28

Abstract art as the method of life

September 28, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Under this title, the website abstractart2006.narod.ru has compiled a range of works by nearly 1400 modern abstract and semiabstract artists from all over the world.

These are 1400 different reflections of abstract and semiabstract world art. 38 artists are featured for France; amongst those:

 

Image: UNTILTED 523 LES DIABOLIQUES (oil on canvas) © Françoise Nielly

Sep

27

Jacek Yerka : many universes in one

September 27, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Jacek Yerka: (as with Mark Ryden) typically classical figurative painting - wildly structured…!

www.yerkaland.com

Painting: The Epitaphy © Jacek Yerka

Jul

3

Flatness in pictorial art

July 3, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

“It has been established by now, it would seem, that the irreducibility of pictorial art consists in but two constitutive conventions or norms: flatness and the delimitation of flatness. In other words, the observance of merely these two norms is enough to create an object which can be experienced as a picture: thus a stretched or tacked-up canvas already exists as a picture – though not necessarily as a successful one.”

Clement Greenberg, “After Abstract Expressionism” (1962)

May

22

Schemes Gallery artist Eric Bourdon

May 22, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment


Eric Bourdon creates new and attractive characters in just a few improvised strokes, in a pop style, symbolic and full of emotions, colours and joy.

A work that will interest as much the old as it will please the young, with these comic paintings and very sharp acrylic colors.

The Schemes Gallery in Lille, France, represents Eric Bourdon since more than ten years, and Bicha Gallery has begun to show his works in London and internationally.

 

The Schemes Gallery is located at 27 rue de l’Hôpital Militaire in Lille.

Open from Wednesday to Saturday 1pm-6:30pm.

Underground station: République.

(->Map)

 

www.ericbourdon.com

 

Image © Eric Bourdon
#262 ‘Apricot’, 81x65cm, acrylic on linen, painting from Schemes Gallery

Mar

23

Banksy: Boston & Cambridge 2010

March 23, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Banksy: Boston & Cambridge 2010 from Greg Shea on Vimeo.

Mar

20

Mark Ryden

March 20, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

What can a very contemporary crazy minded artist paint using old-school ultra-classical figurative techniques? Mark Ryden (from Los Angeles) is a painter as Stephen King is a writer, so much that he could very adequatly make the cover of his books. Old style & modern mind are pushed in his works at extreme quality and articulation, as nobody else can do it.

 

www.markryden.com

 

Picture © Mark Ryden

Mar

13

Art gallery somewhere in London

March 13, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Nothing special – yet – to say about this gallery-to-rent in Cork Street, but the window is go(o)d…

www.gallery27.com

Photo © Premier Art Spaces

Mar

11

Schemes Gallery

March 11, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Established more than thirty years ago by Jean-François Parmentier, the Schemes Gallery has been entirely renovated by Didier Dewulf to become today the biggest art gallery north of Paris.

In there you’ll find the greatest figurative painters in the region, the ‘onirics’ and ‘symbolists’ whose drawing is sometimes much more refined – but no pure ‘abstract’; a few major sculptors, and also some very nice authentic wooden Indian furniture, at amazing prices (directly imported by the gallery).

Welcoming families as well as collectors (whatever their budget or experience might be) or just ordinary tourists and curious, you’ll be warmly received by the Schemes Gallery and will get the best advice from its staff.

The Schemes Gallery is located at 27 rue de l’Hôpital Militaire in Lille.

Open from Wednesday to Saturday 1pm-6:30pm.

Underground station: République.

(->Map)