Christian Bonnefoi

Christian Bonnefoi is student. Hefollows Hubert Damisch's lessons at the School of the High Studies. He reads the philosophers, the sociologists, Roland Barthes. As he could not there any more, he stops the reading and the studies. He begins painting and realizing collages. It gives very fast an abstraction in search of its energy, of its dynamism, of its process. It also gives a paint(painting) which owes to the collage, to the assembly, but always in break a lot. Today, the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris proposes a review of his work.

Since its first works in year 1970 c is unmistakably the collage (an evolution of the work Cubist on the space of the picture(board): the picture as the surface which was of use as intellectual organization to the work of Bonnefoi. The conceived and practical collage literally : This invention of the Cubists supposed a definition of the surface as the set(group) or composition of plan differently directed and defined each by a mode of chromatic intensity; c is indeed the other thing(matter) than the geometrical puzzle: an invention of the space which results from a folding of the surface; a reinvention of the surface of the picture(board) resulting from the connection and from the superimposing(overlapping) of autonomous surfaces. The picture is the involvement of tensions enters incompatible relative that are faces(figures) geometrical and the degrees of chromatic intensity; colors define themselves practically optiquement ) by specific modes of expansion (analogically) by durations of typified musical). The elaboration of solution of balance of these two orders practically drew one big part(party) of the aesthetic field of works so diverse and so inaugural as that of Mondrian, Albers, Rothko Extrait of the book of Jean Louis Shefer " Dialogue of the feather and the brush "

Christian Bonnefoi Exposition appearance of the visible from October 22nd, 2008 till January 5th, 2009 Paris Cenre Pompidou