Invited by the alumni association, Pascal Bernard, a painter who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1975, presents the film interview-portrait by Julie Genelin and Delphine D. Garcia, edited by Stéphane Pichard.
Followed by a discussion with geomorphologist Charles Le Coeur on the role of drawing as an instrument for better understanding the landscape and its components. Paintings, drawings and engravings as plant and mineral mediations of seaweed and gravel herbariums transposed into large format.
Painter Pascal Bernard graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1975. After spending a year doing national service in Germany, he set up a studio in the Hauts de France, resumed his artistic practice and taught at the same time.
Lecturer and researcher at the University of Paris 8-Saint Denis (1985-2000) and Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne (2000-20013), Charles Le Cœur was also director of the CNRS Physical Geography Laboratory in Meudon between 2001 and 2009. His geomorphological research focuses on the granite massifs of Northern Ireland and Scotland, on glacial retreat phases in the Alps (Vanoise) and on hydraulic wastelands and river redevelopment.
He contributes to the column “le dessin du géographe”.
A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Delphine D. Garcia exhibited her paintings in Paris at Jane Roberts Fine Arts and Galerie Nabokov, then in New York at Brady&Co. Now based in a house-workshop in the Pays de Caux, she regularly shows her paintings at Galerie Grégoire Mercier and her prints at Galerie Documents 15 in Paris, and takes part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in cultural venues such as Pont l'Evêque, Compiègne, l'Isle Adam and Valognes, and in fairs such as the Salon International de l'Estampe et du Dessin, Works on Paper Fair and the London Original Print Fair.
A 2006 graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Julie Genelin questions our society's relationship with time through her installations, performances and object editions. Over and above her individual career path, she has built a dynamic around herself that has led her to create two associations in partnership with other artists: “Celeste” (2005-2012), which organizes exhibitions and residencies, and “Cercle Chromatique”, which has brought together alumni of Beaux-Arts Paris since 2017.With a DEA in Germanic studies, Julie Genelin is also driven by the question of language, which takes on a plastic form in her work. Time and language, which structure her artistic practice, are also expressed in her teaching at the Via Ferrata preparatory class since 2016.
After graduating from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1993, Stéphane Pichard continued his studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, then pursued his research at Paris VIII and INA. A professor of visual arts, he has developed the “Synapse” artist residency program at the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts de Rueil-Malmaison.
Photo credit: © Julie Genelin
