BERNARD MANDEVILLE 1921/2000

OIL ON CANVAS 146X89cm. Dated 60. Italian format for this superb Mandeville oil with a refined and very elegant palette. Its dimensions allow it to be easily staged. A real presence! 1960 is the year of his exhibition Galerie BELLECHASSE PARIS
Bernard Mandeville was the subject of numerous exhibitions during his lifetime, notably in 1982 at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, and worked with numerous writers and poets with a view to interdisciplinarity.

In 1935, a painting displayed in a window at his grandparents' home caught the attention of Joseph Delattre, a painter from the Rouen school; very early on, there will be, in the style of this one, views of the Seine and its port. In 1951, one of these paintings was reduced to its essential lines, then became a sort of bouquet. Abstraction* has begun its journey. From the examination of rocks and their reality, which lasts two decades, 1960 and 1970, he expresses life as Bachelard or Teilhard, from Auvergne like him, speak of it. In doing so, he achieves this abstraction and the imagination is here the work of a prophet saying what others do not yet see. Almost imperceptibly, his painting slides through a stage of torn collages towards a perfect geometric abstraction which he reached in 1981. Ionism of these pure, balanced, beige, brown and black forms, standing like the necessary pieces of architecture useless.
Exhibitions:

1939-1941: exhibitions in Rouen
1958: André Weil gallery, Paris
1960: Bellechasse gallery, Paris
1961: Faubourg art gallery, Paris Fabulous macroscopic material and geography
1963: Hoche Saint-Honoré gallery, Paris Cosmic organization of metamorphoses
1965: Salle Saint-Pierre Clermont-Ferrand gallery, retrospective
1967: Combe gallery, Clermont-Ferrand. Winner of the Volcanoes Prize
1968: Vercamer gallery, Paris, Analogies and resonances, with Arman, Baj, Christoforou, Hunderwasser, Lapicque, Magnelli, Matta and G. Noël
1971: André Macé gallery, Paris
1972: Hôtel des Bergues gallery, Geneva
1973: Nuovo-Sagittario gallery, Milan, Italy
1975: Forum gallery, Paris and J.C. Sörensen Graphic Center, Hjørring Denmark
1976: Brenner gallery in Baden-Baden, Germany. Kunstmuseum, Randers and Clemens Gallery, Aarhus Denmark. Cris-Lane Gallery, Paris
1977: Yomiuri gallery, Paris. Municipal Gallery of Modern Art Ceglie-Messapico, Brindisi (Italy). Gallery X, Paris
1978: French Cultural Service, New York
1979: Fischer Gallery, Kiel. Paul Bruck Gallery, Luxembourg. Gütersloh Cultural Center. Marthe Nochy Gallery, Paris. Galerie Huisse, Rouen. Jaquester Gallery, Paris
1980: exhibition in Larvik, Norway
1981: École Polytechnique, Palaiseau. Galerie Paul Bruck Luxembourg
1982: Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. Poetry painting, with Eugène Guillevic, retrospective, Alliance française, Lisbon, Portugal. Gallery 1 Lois Golstein, Miami. Contraste Gallery, Limoges. Narbonne Museum. Galerie Irène Huisse, Rouen
1983: Arcadi gallery, Paris. Art Dialogue Paris. Forms and Life Group, Paris. Galerie des Ambassades, Paris. Luxembourg Gallery, Luxembourg
1984: Formes et vie group, Korean Cultural Center, Jacques Massol gallery, Paris. La Porte Symposium, Indiana, United States
1985: retrospective at the Rouen contemporary art center
1986: Olivier Nouvellet gallery, Paris
1987: Hamon gallery, Le Havre. Galerie des Ambassades, Paris, Galerie Ex Centric Liège Belgium
1988: Louis Moret Foundation, Martigny, Switzerland. Vita Galerie, Zurich Switzerland. Triade Barbizon Gallery, Tribute to the Autumn Salon, gallery 86, Trier Germany
1989: Jacques Raymond gallery, Bonn, Germany
1990: Munster, Germany. Orth Gallery, Nuremberg Germany
1991: Anne Bourdier gallery, Rouen. J. Hamon Gallery Le Havre. Saint Charles de Rose Gallery, Paris
1992: Discovery salon, Grand Palais Paris, Ausdem Alten Haus Singen gallery, Germany. Emilia Suciu gallery, Karlsruhe Germany. Route 92, Levallois-Perret. Louis Moret Foundation, Martigny, Switzerland
1993: Kunsthalle Kubus, Hanover, Germany. Galerie le Rayon Vert, Wimereux, Galerie Amaryllis, Brussels. Exhibition in Digne-les-Bains in conjunction with the presentation of the book Le Collage au twentieth century by Françoise Monnin. Collage exhibition in Sisteron. Moulin de Fombeton Valernes exhibition
1994: Équinoxe Geneva gallery. Retrospective Mandeville5, Bourgtheroulde hotel, Rouen
1995: Dorval gallery, Paris
1997: Sfez gallery, Paris
2000: Auditorium cultural space, Logis des Trois Marchands, Bonneval
2001: Château de Montfort (Vernet-la-Varenne), exhibition6 in tribute to Alexandre Vialatte7
2004: “Tribute to Bernard Mandeville with the participation of Bertrand Dorny, Philibert-Charrin, J.L. Vibert…”8, Rouen, Reg’Art-Confrontations gallery
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