About & career

The studio of the earlier subject

Adé Bernard, painter based in Lille, France. Forty years of painting, from Lille to Tokyo, from the Grand Palais to the Palme d'Or.

“The subject disappears and reappears through the tearing of glued paper, the will to unsettle the drawing and make it vanish.”

The subject only disappears because it already exists on the canvas - before. But before what? The whole work is a search for the “earlier” subject. It then appears through viewpoints that converge into a single prism. What remains is a mystery that must be caught by surprise.

Exhibitions

The career

Solo exhibitions

2017

Galerie LAG, Lorient

2015

Galerie Nord, Lille

2012

Paintings loaned to “Blue Is the Warmest Colour”, Palme d'Or at Cannes

2011

Galerie La Panthère noire, Lille

2009

Galerie ForArt, Lille

2008

Librairie Lektura, Lille

2007

Berlin (August) · Galerie la Girafe, Brussels (October)

2004

Banque Populaire headquarters, Marcq · Warsaw · Dublin

2003

Sin-le-Noble

2000

Poteau Rose, Lambersart

1998

Galerie Maison de la Gare, Lille · Centre culturel de Raismes

Group exhibitions

2022

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (6–13 June)

2021

Maru Art Center Grand Room, Korea (19–25 May)

2019

Salon d'automne, Paris

2004

Galerie Émeraude, Le Touquet · Galerie Septentrion, Lille · Spiridon, La Madeleine

2001

Galerie A.P., rue Quincampoix, Paris · Galerie L'Alternance, Arras

2000

Galerie 13, Arras

1999

Galerie Maison de la Gare, Lille · A.P.Y. de Roubaix

1997

Biennale Art-Présent · Galerie 31 rue de la Monnaie, Lille

1993

Extérieur Art, Lille · Compostelle exhibition

1992

Biennale Art-Présent · Palais Rihour, Lille

1990

Amnesty International, National Human Rights Congress

1987

Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris

1986

Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris

1986

City of Rambouillet award - First Price