BERNARD BEZZINA
Born in 1956,
Lives and works in Toulon, France
French artist, sculptor and painter born in 1956. He lives between the south of France and Italy. It was his mother who directed him towards artistic activity and with her he shared this passion for drawing.
Bezzina struggles with the material is at the center of his artistic research. He deconstruct the figure to recreate it. Bezzina's goal lies in an almost impossible search for total art. This exploratory work requires the density of the sculpture.
In his principle of "DIVISION" the artist investigates about the materials he deconstructs, producing fragments and bring it together again to give them a new birth, moving from division to "amplification", a kind of alchemy that allows the chosen fragment to give the power of a new order, which become an independent entity.
In the ethics of sustainable development, Bernard Bezzina demonstrates a position that respects the elements of nature. He works with cotton paper made after an ancestral process in an old grinder. Tear this thick skin to recompose it on a map. Operating by layers, he covers it with multiple coats of natural pigments. Layer by layer, to reach density. It looks like tanned leather covered with incisions and traces creating different impacts.
Works Available:
SHOWS AND INSTALLATIONS (SELECTION)
2018
Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
2015 - 2017
Plage « Méridien Beach Plaza », Monaco
2016
BRAFA, Bruxelles, Belgium
Sculptures Monumentales, Saint-Tropez, France
Monochromaniac, Opera Gallery, New York, USA
2015
BRAFA, Bruxelles, Belgium
PAD, Paris, France
Art Fair, Antibes, France
Masterpiece, London, France
Jardin des Arts, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
2014
30 Anni/Museo dei Bozzetti, Palazzo Panichi, Pietrasanta, Italy
Galerie Hurtebize, Paris, France
Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France
Art Elysées, Paris, France
2013
Biennale Borgo di Montone, Italy
Homo Faber. Il pensiero e la Mano, Piazza del Duomo, Pietrasanta, Italy
2012
Château Sainte Roseline, Les Arcs, France
2011
Citadelle de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
2009
Printemps des Arts, Palais Abdellia, Tunis, Tunisie
2008
Galerie Olga Lamdon, Bruxelles, Belgium
2007
Domaine de Trians, Néoules, France
Gorges de Pennafort, Callas, France
Galerie Anne Lettré, Paris, France
Contemporary Fine Art, Saint-Tropez, France
2006
Domaine de Trians, Néoules, France
2004
Maison du Cygne, Six-Fours-les-Plages, France
Banque de Gothard, Monaco
2002
Création / Exposition de l'affiche "Jazz à Toulon", France
2001
Banque du Gothard, Monaco
VIP Saint-Tropez, France
AWARDS
2020
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres