Bernard Aubertin

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Bernard Aubertin (born July 29, 1934 in Fontenay-aux-Roses near Paris, † August 31, 2015 in Reutlingen ) was a French visual artist . He is considered a representative of the ZERO movement. In 1977 he took part in documenta 6 in Kassel.

life and work

Bernard Aubertin studied painting in Paris from 1955 to 1957 . This resulted in figurative works, especially portraits, landscapes and still lifes. During this time he dealt with cubism and futurism. In 1957 he met Yves Klein . A year later he created his first monochrome red panel paintings, in which he structured the impasto surface of the picture with the help of spatulas, the back of a spoon, knife or fork. In 1959 he created further monochrome, red structural images. He concentrated on the color red as an expression of fire for the creation of color and light spaces. From 1961 to 1970, Bernard Aubertin took part in ZERO demonstrations.

In 1960, Aubertin began making monochrome nail pictures. Until 1971 he worked on the series of red nail pictures in four different phases. In the first phase up to 1962 he produced pictures in which the nails, driven through a paste-like mass of paint, almost disappeared under the red paint. In the second phase, which lasted until 1965, he struck long steel pins from the back through the wooden plate, the penetrated nail tips and the splintered wood on the front were covered with red paint. The third phase, which lasted until 1967, dealt with geometric, crystalline or star-shaped nail structures. The fourth and final phase lasted until 1971. This was where nail pictures were made with thin, fluorescent paint.

The first fire pictures were taken in 1961. For example, geometrically serial matchstick sequences were attached to pictures. This year, for the first time, art theory texts were published in magazines and catalogs of the ZERO group.

1962–1968 created fire pictures and fire objects. In 1965, “Je suis un réaliste” was published, a programmatic declaration by the artist about his works.

In 1969, Aubertin began working on the avalanche objects. He filled transparent plastic bags with nails, water, rubbish, colored powder or ashes and attached them to a wooden frame. The contents trickled down like an hourglass. Aubertin later only used ashes from burned books for the filling. At the same time, the artist was working on the further development of the fire pictures, monochrome red pictures and large-format nail pictures.

With the move to Brest in 1975, the production of monochrome red pictures, which were constructed with iron wire, followed. In 1983 he started the series of fire signs. They were rectangular, burnt wooden tablets, traces of red paint were made on the black charred ground. 1984–1985 Aubertin created a series of red nail pictures with splinters. He also used larger formats, up to 100 × 100 cm. In 1985 he returned to Paris.

Since 1985 Aubertin has been working on black and red pastels in the “Glut” series, from 1986 fire drawings; monochrome red pastels with the title “fumée rouge”. In 1987 a rotating fire disc with a diameter of 60 cm was created. In addition, Aubertin created monochrome red pictures with fire protection grilles, perforated red-painted cardboard boxes with sloping edges.

In 1988 he carried out work with a terry towel, glued on a bath towel painted red, and again worked on monochrome red pictures, which have recently been made with relief points, the so-called "parpaing".

In 1989 there were monochrome black pyrography pictures that were carried out with a blowtorch, and one year later “parpaing” on wood began. From 1988 to 1993 Aubertin began with the "Deuzième mur d'Allemagne", 27 perforated red painted aluminum panels and 27 perforated and burned wooden panels. In 1991 the artist moved to Reutlingen , where he completed the 54 panels two years later. In 1992 he completed the 300 × 200 cm triptych “Le grand incliné face sud de l'infini incandescant”. From 1993 to 1995 he created “Plein rouge”, 100 monochrome red panels in the format 150 × 100 cm, which were executed on cardboard with a spatula. From 1995 onwards, Aubertin worked on pictures that consisted of several layers of different shades of red. The thick layers of paint clearly protruded beyond the canvas. On July 11, 1997 he was able to complete this series of new pictures. Aubertin handed over his archive to the Foundation for Concrete Art in Reutlingen and began the “Nouveau Rouge” series.

Exhibitions (selection)

Collections

Works in public collections can be found in: Foundation for Concrete Art, Reutlingen ; Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux; Frac Bourgogne, Dijon; Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum , Hagen ; Ludwig Museum in the Deutschherrenhaus Koblenz ; Musée du Chateau de Montbeliard; Museion , Bolzano ; Museu Berardo, Lisbon ; Museum Liaunig , Neuhaus ; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach

literature

  • Bernard Aubertin  : the fire and the red = le feu et le rouge: Edited by Beate Reifenscheid; with contributions by Bernard Aubertin, Kerber 1998, ISBN 978-3-924639-92-1
  • Zero . Editor Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Kunsthaus Zürich Verlag Cantz, 1979
  • Zero : international artist avant-garde of the 50s-60s: Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands-Belgium, the world. Authors Jean Hubert Martin, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Musée d'art modern Saint-Etienne, publisher Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany) Verlag Hatje Cantz, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Reutlinger Generalanzeiger from September 2, 2015
  2. ↑ Documenta, Volume 6, Part 3, Author Documenta GmbH. Verlag Druck Verlag GmbH. ISBN 978-3-920453-00-2
  3. ↑ Seeing Red. In: kunstaspekte.art. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  4. ^ Guggenheim News Release: Guggenheim Museum Presents ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s – 60s. (PDF; 76 kB) In: guggenheim.org. August 26, 2014, accessed December 10, 2017 .
  5. ^ Zero: Let Us Explore the Stars. 4 Jul - 8 Nov 2015. In: stedelijk.nl (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam). Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Aubertin, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontenay-aux-Roses , France
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2015
Place of death Reutlingen