Bertrand Quentin, life is good

In the midst of the buzz of news that we hear from the media and social networks, a star has yet died out in the utmost silence. A formidable star, who still shone with the energy of a child’s heart and the passion of a young man … at over 96 years old.

Bernard Quentin was one of the last living contemporary French artists to shake up the 20th century and the art of the 1950s and 1970s. Friend of Picasso, Boris Vian, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Anne-Marie Cazalis and Juliette Gréco whose life he shared at the end of the 1940s, he participated in numerous exhibitions at the Galerie Maeght alongside Joan Miró , Alberto Giacometti, Calder and Tàpies and works with Le Corbusier then Restany before traveling the world in search of the different forms of language that have forged the history of our world. He thus became a real driving force behind Semiotic art and, through his research, enriched various areas of automatic writing to the point that Salvador Dalí considered him a true “pioneer of cybernetic art and electronic writing”.

Cette volonté de parvenir à établir une forme d’« universalisme » du langage par le biais de l’art prouve combien Bernard Quentin aimait la vie et les hommes, et qu’il a été tout au long de sa vie « un phare vers l’universalité post-moderne de demain » (Pierre Restany). Sa présence et son sourire nous manquerons, mais son œuvre et son parcours parlent d’eux-mêmes. Ils ont su fasciner depuis des décennies de grands collectionneurs ou artistes, dont l’acteur Gérard Depardieu, tombé amoureux de son travail sur le tournage du film Olé réalisé par la femme de l’artiste, la scénariste et réalisatrice Florence Quentin, qui commanditait depuis lors de nombreuses pièces à l’artiste pour sa résidence.

Nous tenions également à saluer le fils de l’artiste, Alexis Quentin, pour le travail formidable qu’il fournit au quotidien afin de faire vivre l’œuvre de cet artiste exceptionnel, grande figure de l’art du XXe siècle, dont la portée considérable de l’œuvre reste encore à découvrir.

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Bernard Quentin

Art is a language, a unique form of expression that allows artists to experiment as well as for the public to have intense and new feelings. Amongst these artists that have in the 20th century known how to question the world, there is a man who, in his 96th year of age, has preserved his desire to explore and continues to work on these ways to communicate. BERNARD QUENTIN was born in 1923 in Flamicourt (Picardie, France). After the Second World War he starts to produce works that have writing as basis, assuming that the ideal form to unite people is language. During his relentless quest to conceive universal signs, he comes to make monumental pieces, but also starts using original materials or tries to establish a real “semiology” of art. Passed away in June 2020, he will have never stopped creating throughout his life, and his participation in Art for All proves once again his dedication to designing works for everyone.

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