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PATRICE PALACIO
Dance
GERARD LUCIAN RICARD
Contemporary painter
Lives and works in Provence - France
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"Even if you abandon the Light ...
The Light will never forsake you. "
Each painter carries with him in his palette, his own light.
It is not only his particular way of illuminating his figures or of preferring marked contrasts or softer passages, it must be the essence of his painting, the style itself.
One day color is no longer necessary and black and white are required.
The duality between the two forms a point of harmony:
The chiaroscuro.
One cannot exist without the other ...
There is something humble, grandiose and painful in this fight between shadow and light.
Chiaroscuro then becomes an interior color in which matter is created.
The Truth is in the middle ground.
My painting is an experience ...
This is both internal in that it allows me to interiorize the world and external in that it allows me to integrate into the world ...
Because it changes perception, transforms places and characters.
Black and white is eminently artistic and poetic.
It opens up to all the mysteries, escapes towards the unreal, highlights the invisible ...
With the pictorial work and its play of light and shadow, all imaginations are possible ...
My research through my paintings, drawings and inks, is what we perceive with the eyes, but the gaze has its limits.
The works are born and disappear, and only their vibrations remain like a dream ...
Gérard Lucian RICARD
Main international exhibitions 1977-2020
Lemaire Gallery - Paris
Paul Ricard Foundation - Bendor
Artothèque - Marseille
Cap d'Agde Congress Center
Saint-Honoré Gallery - Cannes
Marina de Bourbon Gallery - Paris
Casale Gallery - Ajaccio
Bourbon Marina Gallery - Tokyo
Lenhart Gallery - San Francisco - United States
Riom Museum - Puy de Dôme
Galerie Thomas Walser - Wied in Zurich - Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich - Switzerland
Agora Gallery - Marseille
Espace Sainte-Catherine - Aix-en-Provence Museum
Tour du Roy René - Museum of historical monuments of the city of Marseille
Blue like an Orange Gallery - Aix-en-Provence
Marina Gallery - Aix-en-Provence
Contemporary Arts Center "Le Laboratoire" - Marseille
Personal gallery - Los Altos - California - USA
Open 13 Art Gallery - Marseille
Caisse d'Épargne Foundation - Espace Écureuil - Marseille
The Grand Palais - Guest of honor at the Salon du Dessin International - Art Capital - Paris
Recent exhibitions 2012 - 2020
Moscow International Fair "the Manege"
The Saatchi Gallery - London
New York Art Expo - USA
Art Meeting Sao Paulo - Brazil
ARTVO - Paris
Salon d'Automne - Paris
Salon National des Beaux Arts - Le Louvre - Paris
"Art Cité" fair - Paris
Galerie Factory - Art - London & Berlin
Château de Bouc Bel Air - France
The Grand Palais - Guest of honor at the Salon du Dessin International - Art Capital - Paris
EMMA Gallery - Saint Raphaël - France
Public collections
Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich - Switzerland - Sisteron Museum - France - Collection of the National Contemporary Art Fund of the Banque du Crédit Agricole - National Purchase of 8 works - Collection of the Contemporary Art Fund of the Fondation de la Caisse d'Épargne des Bouches du Rhône - Collection of the Contemporary Art Fund of the Accord Group - Sofitel Marseille
Private collections
France - Europe - United States - Switzerland - Japan
Main public auctions
Drouot rooms - Paris - Cantini room and Etude Leclere - Marseille
Various
Obtained a Research Grant from the Ministry of Culture for his artistic research on the project entitled “Memoirs” as well as public subsidies from the City of Marseille, Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs, General Council, Regional Council for his Writings on Art
Manifestos and artistic performances
Founder and Director of the Contemporary Art Center "Le Laboratoire" in Marseille from 1993 to 2000
Collaborated in the 90s with Éric Aron, international musician, on several performance exhibition projects
Professor of Painting - Former Lecturer at Aix-Marseille University - Restorer of Old Paintings - Museum Copyist - Expert in Ancient and Modern Paintings
Main press and media publications: La Provence - Liberation - L'Oeil - Pratique des Arts - M6 - FR3 - Arte - Mosaïque FM…
Member of the Maison des Artistes - Member of ADAGP - Copyright - Member of the French National Center for Plastic Arts - UNESCO Headquarters