The work of Claude Bertrand is primarily an emotional story. If the tables that can be discovered at the turn of an exhibition or in his workshop, nestled in the hollow nature, translation are rich travel has made the artist, they are also an invitation from oneself, beyond color, organic vibration of each of its generous compositions, in which space is integrated but where light is allusion, Light. The landscapes of Claude Bertrand happily exalt colors and show some desire for contemplation.
Comme elle le dévoile elle-même : « C’est un travail fougueux, mes toiles partent d’un élan mais ce n’est jamais forcément fidèle à ce que j’ai pu voir ». The viewer is therefore in the presence of works that give the essence of what has been seen and so a more convincing impression and fairer. Frankly exploring the essential forms, the simplest things, the artist can bring their foundation bare and consequently develop their imaginary value. Baudelaire avait écrit « l’imagination est la reine du vrai, and the possible is one of the provinces of truth. Elle est positivement apparentée avec l’infini » .
who, better than the artist close to nature around him and in his solitude required, may refer to the organic rhythm of all things, en surmontant la subjectivité de l’apparence extérieure de l’objet ou de la Nature ? It is through intuition that works and also Claude Bertrand, comme elle le dit elle-même : « avec son ventre ». The engine is felt, the color is vital, annunciator pace. It offers the infinite through his work is the opportunity for everyone to make its own rules and emotional journey through the image and substance drawn into the experience.
These mosaics of bright colors and vibrant, Claude Bertrand's works feed on a pictorial style full of momentum, personal and recognizable style at first, which is now hers for several years. As a pure colors Furioso, but often without strong contours, Air springs a bill of painting in the soft glow of all. The emergence and fainting, blurring and subtle passages dominate the picture with acrylic beaches or material that captures aspects of the world that explores buried.
For these subtleties, The artist graduated with a sensuality and a heightened sensitivity, the viewer is confronted with a moment of sharing around almost cubic landscapes, moments evanescent lives. The fragmentation of the composition, Color patches, part, the artist installed in the south of France, a job that allows constant renewal. A necessity.
Each table space is in itself a potential center. Rainer Maria Rilke disait à propos de l’œuvre de Cézanne que « chaque point du tableau avait connaissance de tous les autres, As each participant, As everyone watched in its way to the equilibrium, as well as the entire table, ultimately, faisait contrepoids à la réalité »2 Au centre de l’œuvre de Claude Bertrand, Modern colors and applied velocity find their chromatic energy in the abandonment of an objective perspective, relativizing the material world and creating a new space. They develop veneers, overlap or meet to give shape to the various elements of the composition. These blue explosions, verts, purple and scarlet red harmonize, radiate through beaches, keys or collages material deposited beforehand on the pictorial medium, communicating the impression of a hot summer day or dusk fall.
Long influenced by Impressionism, Claude Bertrand has continued to experiment with his art of painting to channel his inspiration in other ways explored boldly, judging continuity with works from previous periods. She discovers creative almost abstract compositions today that magnifies by a real evocative power. Result of the exalted sublimation of landscapes, des êtres ?
In this revealing abstraction, the essays, in that they favor pure expressive values of the shape and color, no longer have figurative references. Everything becomes a, Space and Time, colors and shapes, in an entire fullness. L’émotion est donc bien le maître mot de cette peinture contemporaine : canvas after canvas, it's a poem or music that appears as an inseparable unity of its creator. The artist painter Claude Bertrand offers the viewer the opportunity to see through his work and to probe the depths of his own journey.
Rodolphe Cosimi July 2010