Barnabe (artist)

Pierre-Emmanuel Rome, professionally known as Barnabe or Barnabé, is a French painter based in France. He works in fine arts media and is known for paintings that border on pop art, hard-edge painting, and also surrealism.

Biography
Barnabe has been working on his art since he was a child. He was a keen participant in many artistic workshops, museum tours, and art exhibitions as a child. The theme he selected to work on in the year of his bachelor's degree in Applied Arts was contamination and proliferation in Art.

Barnabe in his early career developed a graphic process using three parallel lines and started a movement of contamination and accumulation. By penetrating the urban environment of Nice with his ghost, Barnabe took the first step in his evolution by entering the world of illicit street art. After relocating to Paris in 2015, he began a period of propaganda in the shape of posters across the French city, with the goal of contaminating society through art. And very quickly, BARNABE found himself on the walls of various large cities in France or abroad … It is in 2020 that he realized his first commissioned wall in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Two years later in 2022, BARNABE started again the exercise on a 16 meter wall in Dubai. Freely inspired by our time, Barnabe proposes a universe that reflects society.

Artistic style
Barnabe has deconstructed his emblematic characters, as well as images, throughout his career while continuing the tradition of pop art, mixing art history and popular culture. His works consist of 60% aerosol spray, 20% acrylic paint, and 20% black acrylic ink. The Barnabes were born in France in the bubbling mind of Pierre-Emmanuel Rome. They are small ghostly beings. The Barnabes are free and they are determined to stay free! Unstoppable, they spread quickly creating a mass effect. Always between confrontation and humor, they are not always equal and overflow with ideas and ingenuity to stand out. Today, they want even more, by throwing themselves on this colorful universe full of surprises.

Amazed to discover a whole new world, the Barnabes have no intention of stopping there. The Barnabes, have unique distinctive features in their eyes, their mouths and their various accessories. These yellow, blue or pink characters are full of ideas to stand out. Although there are an infinite number of Barnabes, they all have a similar physiology, a simple and recognizable shape becoming a strong visual identity.

Select exhibitions

 * 2015: Solo Show Comptoir de Nicole Nice Vernissage et exposition, Restaurant Le Comptoir de Nicole - Nice
 * 2016: Solo Show Edr Nice Art Gallery Exposition de Mai à Août 2016. Galerie Edr Architectural en partenariat avec Nice Art Gallery - Nice
 * 2017: Fresque Pour Le Cavalier, Restaurant Réalisation de fresques, Le Cavalier - PARIS 15e
 * 2017: Fresque En Collaboration Mairie De Nice Réalisation d’une fresque, pour la lutte contre la violence faite aux femmes - Nice
 * 2018: Solo Show, Sofitel Paris Arc De Triomphe Exposition de Mai à Août 2018 au Sofitel Paris Arc De Triomphe- Paris 8e
 * 2018: Show Ours Jayet, En Collaboration Exposition Décembre 2018 - Avenue Matignon, Paris 8e.
 * 2019: Salon Art Atlantique Salon d’exposition Novembre 2019 - LA ROCHELLE
 * 2019: Show Art Time Abidjan - Côte D’ivoire Exposition Février 2019 - Abidjan
 * 2020: Fresque Abidjan - Côte D’ivoire Réalisation d’une fresque dans le quartier de cocody- Abidjan
 * 2020: Nuit Des Églises Exposition Février 2020 - Nice
 * 2021: Solo Show - Yang Gallery Solo Show Yang gallery Octobre 2021 - Singapour
 * 2021: Exposition Dans Les Rues De Paris Exposition à la galerie Sakura Février-Mars 2021 - Paris
 * 2022: Solo Show Dubai 2022 - broken mosaic - Arttime Gallery at foundry by emaar-May 11 - July 5, 2022