Bernard Dumaine
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Bernard Dumaine (born August 20, 1953 in Angoulême, France) is a French artist best known for his work in photorealism and surrealism styles and for his background designs[1] for television cartoons. He works in a variety of media, including oil paints, acrylic paints, graphite pencil, digital painting, digital collage, and video.
Life and work
He graduated in sculpture with a mention for drawing in 1977 in Angers ( Maine et Loire, France ). Many single and group exhibitions followed, both locally and internationally. His early work included drawings in the style of photorealist and surrealist oil paintings.
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He is currently working mostly in digital media,[2] oil paints, and pencil. He is also doing Exquisite corpse works[3] in collaboration with many artists internationally,[4] and these collaborative works have recently been exhibited in galleries across France.[5]
He has a DeviantArt page which also contains a link to this Wikipedia page.
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Group exhibitions
"Painting with pixels" - Cork Gallery, New York City, USA (2004)[6]
"32 bit Connection" - Museumsquartier (MQ), Vienna - Austria (2004)[7]
International Surrealist Show 2006 - Spencer, Iowa[8]
"Chimeria" - Sedan, France 2009[9]
Energy Art Salon 2010 - Chicago, USA[10]
Museu Brasileiro da Escultura - São Paulo, Brazil "Toyart" (2011)[11]
Collettiva Surrealista "Linguaggi d'Arte" (2011) - Floridia, Italy[12]
"Imagining science" - University of Reading (UK) (2013) - Exquisite corpses with Sally Hunter and Immy Smith
"Symbols and archetypes" - Dedalus Studi, Teramo, Italy (2013)[13]
"Luci e Ombre, Tribute to H.R. Giger" Teramo, Italy (2015)[14]
"Book Launch and Psychedelic Art Gallery" The Bently Reserve, San Francisco, CA (2015) [15]
"The resurrection of the Exquisite Corpse" Artworks, Richmond, VA, United States (2015) [16]
"Metamorphosis", Ripattoni in Arte, Palazzo Saliceti, Teramo, Italy(2016)
Personal exhibitions
"Séries" - Galerie Rivaud, Poitiers, France (2014)[17]
Publications
- selected works in Renderosity: Digital Art for the 21st Century (2004, Collins Design) by John Grant and Audre Vysniauskas
- Search 02 in Issue #1, Dark Recesses Press (Dark Recesses Press, 2005)
- selected works in Metamorphosis (2006, Jon Beinart)
- selected work in Imagine The Imagination : new visions of Surrealism (2009, nEgoist Sp.z.o.o.)
- selected work in Visionary Art Yearbook (2010, edited by Otto Rapp)
- " Miximages " 80 Exquisite corpses in pencils (Blurb, 2010, ISBN 978-2-9538353-0-4 )
- selected works in Anarchy Mag, Issue #70/71,#72/73,#74 (Freedom press, 2011-2013)
- selected works in Rebirth of the exquisite corpse (2011, ISBN 978-1-4476-6398-0) by Anthony Mason
- selected works in Collaborative Corpse Yearbook 2010-2011 (2011, Blurb) by George Teseleanu
- selected works in Eco-Ar-Te para o reencantamento do mundo by SATO, Michèle (Org.) São Carlos: RiMa & Cuiabá: FAPEMAT, 2011
- selected works in Artelibre - arte y libertad VI (Editorial Comuniter, S.L.,ISBN 978-84-15126-19-5, 2012)
- selected works in Biomech Art by Martin de Diego Sádaba (Graffito books) ISBN 978-1909051027, 2013
- selected works in Lithaire by Pierre Petiot (La Belle Inutile Editions) ISBN 978-1291616743, 2013
- selected work in The Horror Magazine by Jeani Rector (Horror Zine, The /2013)ISBN 0615914217
- selected work in The spindle's arc by J. Karl Bogartte (La Belle Inutile Éditions /2014) ISBN 978-1312058026
- selected work in Insidieux by Pierre Petiot (La Belle Inutile Editions) ISBN 978-1291661989, 2014
- selected work in Mona Lisa Reimagined by Erik Maell (Goff Books) ISBN 978-1-939621-26-9, 2015
Notes
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.174503245642.240447.728120642&type=3
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-05-28. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
- ↑ http://www.sito.org/cgi-bin/egads/showart?show=bdu.0063&idonly=BDU
- ↑ http://www.charentelibre.fr/2010/12/04/les-cadavres-exquis-de-bernard-dumaine,1009910.php
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-08. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ↑ http://www.valweb.org/umdnj/moca-umdnj/pixels.htm
- ↑ http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2004/05/28/32079.html
- ↑ http://www.surrealogic.com/show.html
- ↑ http://beinart.org/art-news/2009/02/08/chimeria-visionary-art-festival/[]
- ↑ http://www.energyartmovement.org/projects/salon-2010/
- ↑ http://toymube.blogspot.com/search/label/Bernard%20Dumaine
- ↑ http://www.prolocofloridia.it/la-notte-bianca/61-collettiva-surrealistaqlinguaggi-darteq-
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-07. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
- ↑ http://dedalusstudi.blogspot.fr/
- ↑ http://www.maps.org/maps-media/media/5729-press-release-san-francisco-book-launch-and-psychedelic-art-gallery-honors-stanislav-grof-and-h-r-giger
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/events/1168672666526194/
- ↑ http://www.artistescontemporains.org/expositions/evenement.php?id=10558
External links
Disambiguation
- Bernard Dumaine (French actor) fr:Bernard Dumaine