4 years after his 1st exhibition at the Generator, Bernard Bousquet, visual artist and co-founder of the venue, reinvests the Generator’s 400m2.
“Hung, suspended, extended, his giant paintings reflect signs, strokes and figures, They expand… and urge to see, to touch, to feel. “
Performances and musical interventions will punctuate this time dedicated to the visual arts closing the 2016/2017 season.
An artist expert in the art of blurring, Bernard Bousquet studies medicine and psychiatry alongside his painting. Preferring solitude to concessions, always seeking to play with social codes as much as artistic ones, he created his company to free himself from material constraints.
Parallel to his activities, Bernard Bousquet collaborated between 1987 and 2001 on the creations of choreographer Anne Dreyfus, creating her sets and scenography. Large abstract silk-screened canvases, sculptures parodying contemporary art, sophisticated and implausible furniture, neo-grunge sets, disproportionate photographic enlargements of bodily details constitute great moments of encounter between his universe as a visual artist, dance and music.
In 2001, Bernard Bousquet and Anne Dreyfus rehabilitated a former cinema in Gentilly and created a space in their image: Le Générateur. Open since 2006, this “artist-run space” is conceived as a place of incubation (fast and strong) and catalysis (neutral and benevolent) for current creation.
With this architectural stage completed, Bernard Bousquet returned to painting. For the past few months, the Générateur has been transformed into a huge studio for this purpose.Unable to imagine his project without a sound dimension, he has teamed up with musician Jean-François Pauvros to create an installation of electric guitars that amplifies this vast space.