The painter and draughtsman Raymond Berbiguier was born in Marseille in 1935. Rebellious and refusing any authority, he will have a chaotic schooling. However, as a child he started drawing very early and naturally joined the Ecole des Beaux Arts in his native city.After graduating, he worked for a while in the world of advertising, before deciding, in 1966, to devote himself exclusively to painting. In 1967, he participated in the Ostend Biennial, then exhibited in Rennes the following...

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  The painter and draughtsman Raymond Berbiguier was born in Marseille in 1935. Rebellious and refusing any authority, he will have a chaotic schooling. However, as a child he started drawing very early and naturally joined the Ecole des Beaux Arts in his native city.
  After graduating, he worked for a while in the world of advertising, before deciding, in 1966, to devote himself exclusively to painting. In 1967, he participated in the Ostend Biennial, then exhibited in Rennes the following year.
  Preoccupied with philosophies and religions, especially extreme oriental ones, he became passionate about the practice of martial arts (Karate, aikido) which gave him a sense of depth, continuity in the effort and commitment.
  Raymond Berbiguier is a painter, draughtsman (pencil, pastel, pen) and sculptor in the classical tradition, but also an artist who goes beyond all fashionable trends. A man of paradoxes, a perfectionist, concerned with accuracy and nuance, his powerful work, all in balance of colors and volumes, is of an emotional force, intense and without artifice. "It is necessary to keep in memory the color of its wound to irradiate it with the sun," writes Juliette Berto.
  Raymond Berbiguier paints the human condition in its diversity; "From each portrait, from each body that he dissects and reveals, emerges the part of shadow and the part of light, the suffering and the quietude, the smile and the despair, the strength and the fragility: the thesis and the antithesis of all humanity," writes Christiane Courbon about his work.Nothing will make him deviate from the path of expression that he has chosen or, rather, that has imposed itself on him, making each day that passes a step further on his road; there is, both in his stubborn path and in his work, a certain "cousinhood" with the painter from Arles Gérard Eppelé, with whom he has also exhibited in 2011. Like him, "Berbiguier is a giver of life," as Pierre Baqué writes.It will not be surprising when we know the importance that the artist's eye will carry to painters such as Francis Bacon, Rustin, Zao Wou Ki, Rebeyrolle, Kokoschka or Vladimir Velickovic.The artist exhibited regularly from the mid-1970s, mainly in France (Nice, Avignon, Paris, Vence, Cannes, Montceau Les Mines, Marseille, etc.).
  

  

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