PASSAGES
CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN
9 RUE JEANNE D'ARC — TROYES
Born on August 28, 1951, in Colmar, Bernard Metzger conducts research and work related to establishing the first elements of a map of pigment circulation in medieval times.
The artist has a fascination with color. In this exhibition, he seeks to give form to color, using red taken from the Pompeian red of the fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries, painted around 70-60 BC. The artist aims to bring together megalography and the vulgarity of luparna graffiti in his works. Bernard Metzger incorporates representations of erotic bodies using the principle of silver halide photography overprinting.
“My work as a colorist is based on a practice of painting, which over time has become a practice of color.” Bernard Metzger. In these works, three formal types coexist: collages and photography; fragments of architecture and bodies.
The painter’s goal is to propose figures of color that express its disturbing and fascinating character through the intermingling of colors and bodies.
The exhibition is open to the public from February 03 to March 10, 2006.
