Adé Bernard on France 5’s C à vous: Pierre Lescure on ‘Chaos’ at the Salon d’Automne

French painter Adé Bernard was featured on C à vous, the live early-evening culture and news magazine on France 5, when critic and producer Pierre Lescure devoted his closing segment, Le meilleur est à venir, to her painting. Broadcast on 10 November 2026, the chronicle put a national spotlight on her mixed-media canvas Chaos, shown at the 123rd Salon d’Automne on Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Adé Bernard on C à vous (France 5), in Pierre Lescure’s Le meilleur est à venir segment.

Pierre Lescure’s “Le meilleur est à venir” on C à vous

C à vous is broadcast live each weekday evening on France 5 and closes with Pierre Lescure’s cultural chronicle Le meilleur est à venir. Co-founder of Canal+ and a former president of the Cannes Film Festival, Lescure uses the segment to share the books, films, shows and artists he wants viewers to discover. On 10 November 2026 he turned it toward contemporary painting, introducing Adé Bernard and her canvas Chaos to the programme’s national audience.

The appearance came while Adé Bernard was showing at the 123rd Salon d’Automne, connecting one of Paris’s historic art institutions to French prime-time television.

“Chaos”, the painting presented at the Salon d’Automne

The work at the centre of the segment is Chaos, an acrylic, oil and mixed-media canvas measuring 114 × 145 cm. It was selected for the 123rd Salon d’Automne (28 October - 1 November 2026) and shown in the Salon’s ephemeral pavilions on Place de la Concorde.

Adé Bernard builds the image through collision rather than composition: blue and red meet head-on, the red “only artificial”, the white and the blue coming “from the sky”. The title echoes a line she keeps close - “No life without chaos” - and she leaves the reading open: à chacun de voir, it is for each of us to see.

Adé Bernard: a Lille painter in the national spotlight

Adé Bernard works in Lille, in northern France, around a single question: “All my work is a search for the earlier subject.” Her method is accumulation - torn and glued paper, charcoal, oil and raw pigment laid down in layers until a figure surfaces, then half dissolves back into the material.

Her paintings reach well beyond the studio. Two of her canvases appear in Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d’Adèle), Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2013, a film on which she also served as pictorial adviser. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in 2022. The France 5 feature adds a national television audience to that record.

Watch the segment and see “Chaos”

The full C à vous segment is available to watch above. To see Chaos and other available works, or to arrange a studio visit or an acquisition, visit adebernard.com.

Frequently asked questions

When was Adé Bernard on C à vous?

Adé Bernard was featured on C à vous (France 5) on 10 November 2026, in Pierre Lescure’s closing segment Le meilleur est à venir.

What did Pierre Lescure present?

He presented the French painter Adé Bernard and her mixed-media canvas Chaos, shown at the 123rd Salon d’Automne on Place de la Concorde in Paris.

What is “C à vous”?

C à vous is a live culture and news magazine broadcast each weekday evening on France 5, closing with Pierre Lescure’s chronicle Le meilleur est à venir.

Who is Adé Bernard?

Adé Bernard is a French contemporary painter based in Lille, working in oil, pigments and collage to build layered figurative images. Two of her paintings appear in the Palme d’Or-winning film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013).

How can I see or acquire “Chaos”?

To see or acquire Chaos, go to the contact page, select the artwork Chaos in the form and send it to us. Every enquiry is answered personally by the studio.