User:Brett rider/Bertille de Baudinière

In delicate health, Bertille de Baudinière discovered drawing in her early youth when her mother offered her a box of colored pencils. She attended the University of Rennes, wih evening drawing classes at the regional Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Her teacher encouraged her to continue her training in Paris, against the advice of her parents. A student of Jean Bertholle and Olivier Debré, she graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Bertille de Baudinière works mainly in France, Japan and the United States. Her work on these three continents integrates issues of nature and society with the search for new techniques and media. By moving closer to the movements of lyrical abstraction and Mono-ha, her work is a fusion of the civilizations of the West and the Far East[1].

From 1983 to 1985, Bertille de Baudinière was a resident artist at the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris. In 1986, she received the Japanese government's Monbucho Fellowship and entered Tokyo Geida where she received a master's degree in 1990 under the direction of Master Kazumichi Sakamoto. In 1990, she was a resident artist in Omaha at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts[2]. [2] Élisabeth Lièvre-Crosson, Blue Earth, retrospective catalogue, 1984-2005

In 1989 in Tokyo, she began the Green Earth series, followed by Red Earth in 1990 in the United States, and Blue Earth in France in 2004: three studies of the Earth that she will resume at different intervals up to the present. She is also interested in the digital world (Light Screens, Painting by Numbers, Painting by Letters, Pixels), current events (Guantanamo, Veiling, Security) and personal observations (New York Light, Harlem, Paris Time, Planets)[3]. [3] Élisabeth Lièvre-Crosson, op. cit

Since her stay in Japan, Bertille de Baudinière has used natural pigments (Nihonga) mixed with casein and water, spread on canvas or rice paper, in reference to Zen philosophy. For its practical aspect, she preferred to use acrylic paint in the United States.

Back in France in 1993, she returned to the United States from 2009 to 2013. Since then, she lives and works between Paris and Long Island City in New York. In 2012, upon her return to Paris, she developed a new technique using natural earth from different parts of the world, which, mixed with a medium, develops chemical reactions, each different from the other, according to their organic composition[4]. [4] Ellen Nettles, op. cit., p.3

"What attracts me the most and is reflected in my work are the oppositions, differences, conflicts and mobility that signify life as it is lived," she says[5]. [5] Artsy

Her paintings have illustrated articles in Le Monde diplomatique on three occasions, including Violence, an abstract painting in acrylic, published on the front page after the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States.

Bertille de Baudinière has a workshop in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. She founded and directs a school of painting, drawing and art history for children and adults in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.


 * "There is something in this artist's work that does not stop drawing my attention and gives me the feeling of a peaceful atmosphere all around me. - Nobuo Yamagishi[6] "The space of her paintings is marked and covered with India ink, then the green earth is brought out delicately but resolutely. This is the green of the earth and her strong desire to keep nature immutable." - Kazumichi Sakamoto[7] "Although Artaud's work inspired Bertille de Baudinière not only as a pictorial subject, but also because of her attachment to the Orient, she nonetheless claims it through a larger project: the artist must be engaged in order to reveal through her vision the profound face of humanity." - Annie Claustres[8] [6] Nobuo Yamagishi, Green Earth, Tokyo, November 1989  [7] Kazumichi Sakamoto, Green Earth, Tokyo, November 1989  [8] Annie Claustres, Introduction to « Écrans-Lumière », MJC Théâtre de Colombes, September 1995

Expositions
Paris, Fondation des États-Unis


 * Art for climate, group show, 2023
 * Green, Blue, and Red Earth retrospective, 2022.

Islip, Islip Art Museum

New York City, Resobox

Omaha, Bemis Center of Contemporary Art

Tokyo, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo

Wurzburg, Arte Noah Gallery

Cologne, Zurdorf Wehrtum Museum

Bormes-les-Mimosas, Museum of Art and History

Works in public collections
Landau in der Pfalz, museum: purchase of the city in 1993

New York, University of the City of New York

Omaha, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

France
Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre Benoît-Frachon (Confederation Générale du Travail)

Paris, Fondation des Etats-Unis

Publications

 * with Kazumichi Sakamoto, Green earth, introduction by Bernard Point, Éditions Le livre d'art, 72 p.
 * with Robert Taplin, Kazumichi Sakamoto and Nicolas Rabadeux, Blue Earth, Éditions Le Livre d'art, 2020, 72 p. ISBN 978-2-35532-359-1.

Notes et références

 * [1] Ellen Nettles, Green Earth, Éditions Le Livre d'Art, 2014, p. 64
 * [2] Élisabeth Lièvre-Crosson, Blue Earth, retrospective catalogue, 1984-2005
 * [3] Élisabeth Lièvre-Crosson, op. cit
 * [4] Ellen Nettles, op. cit., p.3
 * [5] Artsy
 * [6] Nobuo Yamagishi, Green Earth, Tokyo, November 1989
 * [7] Kazumichi Sakamoto, Green Earth, Tokyo, November 1989
 * [8] Annie Claustres, Introduction to « Écrans-Lumière », MJC Théâtre de Colombes, September 1995