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Bernard Aubertin
Bernard Aubertin - Tableau Clous - Nail Painting 1970

1970

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Bernard Aubertin (1934 -.) Tableau Clous 1970 Nails and acrylic on panel, 50 × 50 cm Verso signed and dated. Bernard Aubertin associates the element fire with a glowing red. "The red gives me a feeling of identification with the fire." (B. Aubertin, in: B. Aubertin, Das Feuer und das Rot, Bielefeld 1997, p. 29). His red nail works emanate a magic charged with energy. In combination with the nails' iron, associations of red glowing metals lie close. Alone the nails' serial arrangement forces rigidity upon the image surface. The French artist Bernard Aubertin met Yves Klein in 1957. After this capital meeting he painted his his first red monochromes. In 1961, Bernard Aubertin joined ZERO, a German artists’ group made up of (Otto Piene, Heinz Mack and Günther Uecker). With them Aubertin shared a distrust of language: “Art isn’t expression, it’s knowledge. You don’t have something to say, you can only be” (Bernard Aubertin). For Aubertin, monochrome painting is the best way to free oneself from the painter’s gesture and, in doing so, give rise to a pure space and an anonymous vital energy. Ascribing a prophetic, liberating value to the color red and “levitating fire,” in which he sees a materialization of “extrasensory” culture, Aubertin has tirelessly developed his many series of paintings, the “monochromes,” “squares,” “reds,” “fires,” “golds” and so on. Aubertin exhibited with the ZERO group in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Berlin and Milan. collections include Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, Paris Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble Centre National de l'Art Contemporain, Paris Musée de Graz, Graz Museum of Düsseldortf, Düsseldorft Archivio della Grazia di Nuova Scrittura, Milan Museo de Arte Moderno, Venezuela Solo Exhibitions 1962, Galerie Wulfengasse, Austria 1967, Falerie Weiller, Paris; Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen 1968, Galerie des Quatre Vents, Paris; Galerie Riquelme, Paris; Leine Galerie e V., Frankfurt 1969, Galerie Senatore, Stuttgart 1971, Galerie Ursula Lichter, Frankfurt 1972, Retrospective Exhibition, C.N.A.C., Paris 1973, Galerie Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen, Switzerland; Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Sables-d'Olonne, France; Galerie Seebacher, Austria 1974, Galerie 2, Stuttgart, Studio Brescia, Brescia, Italy; Galleria Banco, Brescia, Italy; Studio Firenze Art Contemporanea, Florence; Galleria dei Mille, Bergamo, Italy; Galleria Delta, Salerno, Italy, Studio F22, Palazzolo, Italy; Galleria Il Canale, Venice 1975, Studio Brescia, Brescia; Galleria Il Punto, Turin 1977, Galleria Rebus, Florence 1978, Palazzetto dello Sport, Abano Terme; Galerie 44, Kaarst by Dusseldorf 1979, Galerie Weiller, Paris 1983, Galerie Donguy, Paris; Galerie Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen 1986, Galerie Charley Chevalier, Paris 1987, Galerie Béatrix Wilhelm, Stuttgart 1988, Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris; Stiftung fur Konkrete Lunst, Archiv, Reutlingen 1989, Galeria Oscar Ascanio, Caracas; Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf 1990, Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris; Galleria Vinciana, Milan; Galerie Jousse Saguin, Paris Group Exhibitions 1961, Zero, Galerie Dato, Frankfurt 1962, Zero, Galerie Schindler, Berne 1965, Zero - Avant - Garde, Atelier de Fontana, Milan 1966, Destruction in Art symposium, London; Climat 66, Musée de Grenoble, France 1967, Luminism, George Washington Hotel, New York 1968, Cinétisme, Maison de la Culture, Grenoble, France 1969, Dynamozero 1959 - 1969, Galerie Ursula Lichter, Frankfurt 1971, Sammlung Cremer, Kunst der 60er Jahre, Kunstverein, Heidelberg 1972, Otto Plene Lichtballet und Kunstler der Gruppe Zero, Galerie Heseler, Munich 1973, Sammlung Cremer, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tübingen
  • Creator:
    Bernard Aubertin (1934, French)
  • Creation Year:
    1970
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 19.69 in (50 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1612393952
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