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Bernard Alligand
"At the edge, before the end of the night, before the start of the day, the smell of the morning, what ends to better start again ... differently. "
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Bernard Alligand is born in 1953 in Angers. With the painter Jean-Jacques Deschamps, he follows training at the Fine Arts in Angers, where he learns the art graphics and modeling. From 1979 to 1981, he participates in various exhibitions in the Loire Valley and gets the Angevin Young Painter Award in 1980. The same year he produces his first solo exhibition in Angers (Guémard gallery). The young artist has a taste for travel from which his imagination draws a creative material (England, Spain, Germany, Greece). In 1984, he moves to Vence and exhibits on the French Riviera (Azur Coast: Nice, Biot, Tourrette sur Loup, Vence). He participates in this period, in group exhibitions in the United States (Dallas, New York).
Henri Goetz, which he meets in 1986 and with who he is bound by friendship, introduces him to the carborundum etching, his invention. Bernard Alligand uses and develops from this time onward his palette in this etching technique (with the linocut, etching, drypoint, stencil and aquagravure).
His contract with the publisher "Vision Nouvelle", from 1989 to 1993, allows his work to take an international dimension by exhibiting in Switzerland, Japan (Tokyo, Kobe, Wakayama, Kyoto), Korea, Sweden, Germany, the United States or even in Finland. Alligand meets then many artists (Henri Baviera in the studio where he shoots his engravings, Serge Hélénon, Andre Cottavoz, Shoichi Hasegawa, Gerard Eppele, Theo Tobiasse, etc.). While maintaining a time, his studio in Vence, the artist moves to Paris in 1993. He makes his first artist's books, with in particular Jean-Pierre Geay, realizes a series of ceramics, creates his first "Wood- Structures" This period is also enriched by encounters (Arthur Luiz Piza, James Pichette, Hans Steffens, James Guitet and many others).
The exhibitions, personal or collective, and multiple experiments follow one another at a sustained pace. The many trips of Bernard Alligand, as his artist residencies (Egypt, Morocco, Iceland), support the renewal of his work and inspirations. In recent years, he develops his crop of specific materials, Cambodia, United Arab Emirates, Iceland, Jordan, Laos, Oman, Portugal, Thailand, Vietnam ...
Multidisciplinary artist, Bernard Alligand has illustrated - since 1993 - many books with poets (Michel Butor, Jean-Pierre Geay, Robert Marteau, Gaston Puel, and others). Since 2009, a "Alligand Conservation Fund" brings together all of his works of bibliophiles at the Library of Angers (currently over 50 books); this fund includes all books, mockups, correspondence with the poets. The reserve of rare and precious books of the National Library as well as many French media libraries (Annecy, Bayonne, Carros, Evreux, Nice, Monaco, etc.) have also entered the works of Bernard Alligand in their collections.
Since 1990, the Department of Prints of the National Library contains all of his graphic work, and in 2005, a catalog of his engraved work is published by Editions Workshop of the word.
In 2011 and 2012, two retrospectives of his work have celebrated thirty years of Bernard Alligand' s creations (Aubenas Castle, Great Theater of Angers).
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
* « L'oeuvre gravé, 1985-2004 », J.-Pierre Geay, Editions Atelier du Mot, 2005
* « L'oeuvre gravé 2005-2017 », Jean-Pierre Geay, Editions Ville de Nice, 2019
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Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Alligand », monographie, Jean-Pierre Geay, Ed. de l'artiste, 1997
- « Bernard Alligand », catalogue d'exposition, Galerie Dazy, Dijon, 2006
- « B. Alligand. Un Angevin du monde », Bibliothèque municipale d'Angers, 2009
- « Fond B. Alligand », revue de la Bibliothèque municipale d'Angers, 2009
- « B. Allirand - Rétrospective 30 ans », cat. d'expo., J.-P. Geay, Aubenas, 2011
- « B. Alligand - Rétrospective 30 ans », Jean-Pierre Geay, cat. d'exposition, Angers, 2012
To read from the artist :
- « Impressions d'Egypte », interview de Tita Reut, Ed. de l'artiste, 2000
- « Gravure au carborundum », N. Alligand, E. Daudier, interv. de Tita Reut, 2012
Website :
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+ Stamp
Stamp by Bernard Alligand
fictional stamp
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past.
These pages will undoubtedly make it possible for some of you to associate an image with its title or the other way round, for others it will be a good time to discover more on such and such artist. For the sake of confidentiality – the pieces being no longer available – we won't display neither their numbering or their price. For whatever reason, make sure to visit this amazing art database with to date 6441 online works just for your pleasure! Michelle Champetier
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