Born in 1939, lives and works in Maisons-Alfort.
If he has long been a painter without brushes, Pierre Buraglio has never ceased to refer to the great movements of art and painting in particular. In his assemblages, his collages, his paintings, the fragments, pieces, traces, seized, juxtaposed, close together, that they are taken in the history of the art or in its immediate environment, compose a portrait by fragment, where the artist struggles with the different facets of both his personality and the world as it is.
After studying law and political science, Alain Veinstein joined ORTF in 1969, moving to the programme department in 1972 to take charge of radio and literary and artistic television programmes. When ORTF broke up in 1975, he chose to move to Radio France as adviser to the director of France Culture. In 1978, he created The Magnetic Nights, which became Surprised by the night when the arrival of digital technology put an end to the adventure of magnetic tape as a medium for radio work. At the same time, from 1985 until 2014, he presented From One Day to the Next, which became a daily rendez-vous with the author of a book.
As a writer, Alain Veinstein has published poems and novels. He was awarded the Prix Mallarmé and the Grand Prix de poésie by the Académie française in 2003, and in 2010, the Prix de la langue française for all his literary work and, in 2014, the Grand Prix de la SCAM for all his radio work.
Since 2015, he has devoted himself exclusively to painting, his first vocation. The world he paints is populated by allusions and enigmas that evoke a sense of strangeness and disquiet.
Born in 1944, lives and works in Toulon
Gilles Altieri develops a generous gestural abstraction on canvas or on paper that privileges the dialogue of color and black in the freedom of gesture, resulting in energetic and sensitive compositions. He was the charismatic director of the Hôtel des Arts in Toulon.
David Décamp’s eye was developed in the forest, where he was raised and worked as a lumberjack. A self-taught artist, nature is at the center of the work he has been building since the late 1990s. His artistic practice draws from his personal experience. By exorcising it, he gives it a universal dimension. His sculptures, drawings and installations express with violence and poetry the poisoned and sometimes destructive relationship of Man to his environment. Close to art brut and nourished by a kind of surrealist black humor, the materials he uses often have an autobiographical meaning: wood, lead, bones as in the work of Joseph Beuys.
«The nostalgia for a planet that would still retain something of the wild, or even a planet that would simply remain a habitable environment, for humans, animal or plant species, is at the foundation of David Décamp’s work. (…) His childhood spent in the middle of the forests of the Jura, to which he returns constantly, his knowledge of trees, of which he made his first profession, his fascination for bark and leaves, his attention to animals: art has only translated into forms, objects, and installations, what was for him a landscape as present and constitutive as it was threatened. This is what makes his works and all the lived things that surround them do not belong to the late good ecological conscience which is that of our societies, at the same time worried about the climatic disturbances and always as greedy in goods and energy. (..)” It is as if I wanted to pierce the head of those who will look at my work: with a car. “There is the idea of a way of the cross, without it being the subject. »- François-René Martin (Professeur d’histoire de l’art à l’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris), “Terminarès”
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