Bertrand Lavier
Composition aux 11 couleurs, 2024
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Bertrand Lavier
Composition aux 11 couleurs, 2024
Acrylique on map of USA
150 x 200 cm (59,06 x 78,74 in.)

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Bertrand Lavier has been working on his “painted objects” project since 1980, creating a hybrid space in which the object and its representation are embraced by the same gaze. Cabinets, cameras, mirrors, pianos and paintings depicting, for example, a regional map of the United States are covered, down to the smallest detail, with a thick layer of paint identical to the color of their surface. Here, the artist truly paints “sur le motif”, taking in its most literal sense the expression used by painters at the end of the XIXᵉ century, who abandoned their studios to paint in the open air.