Recent work

The quest for color

Documentation

Haute tension, les émotions d'un homme, 1962

01 sans tire
1962, 46 x 61 cm
Claude Bellegarde
Galerie L'Atelier de Marianne
nov 2011 - jan 2012

Haute tension, les émotions d'un homme, 1962

Haute Tension, les émotions d'un homme
1995, 162 x 130 cm
Expo Autour de Pierre Cabanne
Galerie Guillaume

Expo - galerie 14
The color of perception, 2004 tapestry.  Manufacture des Gobelins, 2004 de Claude Bellegarde

Exhibition Créations Actuelles 1997-2007 Manufacture des Gobelins.
may - september 2007. Enlarge imagemagnify image

Bellegarde - The Quest for Color, éditions d’Art Somogy, 2006

Somogy éditions d’Art, Paris 2006 ISBN:2-85 056-970-4

News

The color of our gaze is an intangible inner light, the reflection of our image. The channeling of our emotions, but also of our reflection. A way of looking is also a choice… and in our choice of colors we reveal ourselves… CLAUDE BELLEGARDE: JOURNAL

EXHIBITIONS

Macro Cosmos

Macro Cosmos 1969
Exhibition - Claude Bellegarde
La Ville d'Anglet FR

CLAUDE BELLEGARDE - Retrospective 1950-2010
Villa Beatrix Enea
19 november 2011 - 15 january 2012
2, rue Albert-le-Barillier 64600 Anglet
Tél (33) 05 59 58 35 60
www.anglet.fr

La Ville d'Anglet presents a retrospective exhibition of works (1950 to 2010) by Claude Bellegarde.
Free admission: Villa Beatrix Enea until january 15th 2012


CLAUDE BELLEGARDE - Œuvres sur papiers
Galerie L'Atelier de Marianne
22 november 2011 - 15 january 2012
12, rue Stanislas 6e 75006 Paris
Tél (33) 06 07 16 43 40

Galerie L'Atelier de Marianne presents small format works on paper by the artist.

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIRS
Contemporary Istanbul - TUR
24 - 27 november 2011
Galerie Riff Art Projects (Exhibitor's booth IKM104)
www.contemporaryistanbul.com

Art Miami - USA
30 november - 4 december 2011
Midtown Miami Arts District
www.art-miami.com

PAST EXHIBITIONS

The Maca exhibition includes works by contemporary artists from the French as well as international art scene.

Musée d’Art Contemporaine de Acri
Palazzo Sanseverino -Piazza Falcone, Acri , IT
5 july - 20 september, 2009

For the exhibition Autour de Pierre Cabanne, Guillaume Sébastien gathers works from more than thirty artists associated with the critic, some renowned: Arman, César, Marcel Duchamp, André Marfaing ou Jean-Pierre Raynaud, others less well-known but whose work he promoted with equal enthusiasm: Claude Bellegarde, Paul Guiramand, José Subira-Puig, Michel Tourlière… Each work is accompanied by an enlightening text by Pierre Cabanne.

Galerie Guillaume
32 rue de Penthièvre 75 008 Paris
12 march au 30 april, 2009

Christine Albanel, Minister of Culture and Communications, presents Assisis.   Brainchild of Philippe Delaunay president of the association Vol d'oiseau du cercle, the exhibition which brings together artists from a range of backgrounds, features works using a simple wooden chair.

Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
182, rue Saint-Honoré 1er 75001 Paris.
3 october - 19 november, 2008

Artists support Action against Hunger by donating works (paintings on porcelain plates) for auction. Proceeds go to Action Contre la Faim (ACF), an international relief and development organization. The auction will take place December 20th in Paris at Hôtel Dassault, 19h30. However, the works can be viewed on the official ACF web site and are also open to online bids.

Riff Art Projects Gallery presents the exhibition: Claude Bellegarde: Entre «Société de Consommation» (1970) et «Gris de Couleurs» (2007).

Espace Pierre Cardin, 1 Avenue Gabriel, Paris
21 - 26 october, 2008
1B, rue du Puits, 67000 Strasbourg
26 june - 28 july, 2008

Galerie 14 presents a selection of the artist's paintings.

Galerie 14. 14, rue Philippe Verger, 89130 Toucy FR
31 may - 29 june, 2008

Galerie 53 presents a selection of works from 1965 through 1968.

Galerie 53. 53 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris
18 january - 16 february, 2008

Lille Artistique 1957-1972 ◊ Facing the rigid constraints of the official teaching methods favored by the Lille School of Fine Arts, a group of young activist/anti-establishment artists founded in 1956 L'Atelier de la Monnaie. The exhibition gathers for the first time works of the founding members, active members and over 70 invited artists such as:A.Tapiés, V.Vasarely, Balthus, Claude Bellegarde, E.Dodeigne, M.Gromaire, C.Permeke, N.de Saint Phalle...

Palais des Beaux-Arts. Place de la République, 59000 Lille, FR
14 december 2007 - 15 march, 2008

Galerie Rê located in Marrakesh, Morocco presents 19 contemporary painters (12 Moroccans, 1 Algerian and 6 French) :Mohammed Azouzi, Sibylle Baltzer, Claude Bellegarde, Amina Benbouchta, Mbarek Bouhchichi, Diane de Bournazel, Ahmed Hajoubi, Mohamed Kacimi, Tibari Kantour, Rachid Koraïchi, Rahma Laâroussi, Mohamed Lagzouli, Bouchaïb Maoual, Houssein Miloudi, Abdelkrim Ouazzani, Sébastien Pignon, Michel Tyzblat, Tourya Othman et Edith Taioni.

Galerie Rê, rue Ibn Toumert, n°3, Guéliz 40000 Marrakech, Morocco
1 july - 20 october, 2007

La Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins presents Les Gobelins 1607-2007, Trésors dévoilés - Quatre siècles de création, tapisseries, tapis, mobilier. The second of a three-part exhibition, Créations Actuelles 1997-2007 includes more than twenty contemporary tapestries signed by artists such as Alechinsky, Bellegarde, Othoniel, Portzamparc, Crasset.… more about Vision of color »

Galerie des Gobelins, 42 avenue des Gobelins - 75013 Paris
12 may - 30 september, 2007

Ephemeral - Inks on fiberglass. A selection of works from 2003 to 2005.
Poem Presque nuit by Salah Stétié (Grand Prix de la Francophonie, 1995)
… more about Éphémère »

Galerie de Bièvre, Mairie du 13e, 1 place d'Italie - 75013 Paris
20 - 27 september, 2007

Tomorrow now – when design meets science fiction is the first exhibition devoted to the relationship between design and science fiction and includes works by influential 20th century artists and designers. Bellegarde exhibits La cabine, 1965 a prototype from a series of psycolor cubicles, designed in the sixties … more about psycolor cubicles »

Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg
25 may - 24 september, 2007

Castelbasso Progetto Cultura in collaboration with Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Lissone presents contemporary European and American works by :Karel Appel, Enrico Baj, Afro Basadella, Claude Bellegarde, Luigi Boille, Brüning, Alberto Burri, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Roberto Crippa, Mario De Luigi, Gianni Dova, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, Sam Francis, Pinot Gallizio, Hans Hartung, Asger Jorn, Franz Kline, Piero Manzoni, Conrad Marca-Relli, Georges Mathieu, Henri Michaux, Mattia Moreni, Ennio Morlotti, Alberto Novelli, Achille Pace, Achille Perilli, Jackson Pollock, Jean Paul Riopelle, Sergio Romiti, Antonino Ruggeri, Antonio Sanfilippo, Giuseppe Santomaso, Emilio Scanavino, Gregor Schneider, Emil Schumacher, Toti Scialoja, Pierre Soulages, Pierre Tal-Coat, Antoni Tàpies, Mark Tobey, Giulio Turcato, Cy Twombly, Emilio Vedova, Nachlass Wols. Curator: Silvia Pegoraro.

Palazzo de Sanctis, Castellalto, Teramo, Abruzzo Italia
14 july - 26 august 2007

The exhibition includes several of Bellegarde's paintings, notably The Inferno,1990 from the Marine and Volcanic period. …more about Marine and volcanic »

Johnson & Johnson, Issy les Moulineaux, Hauts De Seine, 92130 France
april - june, 2007

Prototypes, artistic projects and furniture : Roger Tallon and Claude Bellegarde.

Galerie Jousse Entreprise, 24-34 rue Louise Weiss, 75013 Paris.
april - may, 2007.

Recent work by Claude Bellegarde. …selected paintings Planisphère »

Galerie Lavignes Bastille, 27 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris
20 march - 3 may, 2007

PUBLICATIONS • CONFERENCES • AQUISITIONS

A 215 page, book about Claude Bellegarde, covering a span of 60 years. The book includes many examples of the artist's work, extracts from his journal and full articles from contributors :Raymond Abellio, Julien Alvard, Geneviève Breerete, Pierre Cabanne, Pierre Restany, Jean Clarence Lambert, Enrico Crispoliti, Gérald Gassiot-Talabot, Pierre Gaudibert, Alain Gheerbrant, Bernard Gheerbrant, Jean-Marie Gibbal, Lydia Haramborg, Adelkebir Khatibi, Olivier Kaeppelin, Jean Lancri, Jacques Lassaigne, Jean Jacques Lévèsque, Catherine Millet, Raoul Jean Moulin, Jean Daniel Pollet, Jean Louis Pradel, Denis Riout, André Schoeller, Alfred Tomatis, Michel Trioche, Gérard Xuriguera. Initiator and creative advisor for the monograph Gilles Bastianelli

Claude Bellegarde was a guest lecturer at the two day seminar December 2006, organised by the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), in partnership with the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the Archives de la critique d’art . The seminar brought together artists, academics and critics from Europe and the Americas, to examine the various aspects of Pierre Restany’s long career, as poet, critic and promoter of contemporary art, architecture and design. www.aica-int.org

Déplacement d’espace Temps F - Displacement of space, a large crushed paper work from 1957, now hangs in the recently opened Musée d’Art Contemporain in Vitry. The work was acquired in 1995 by the museum's founder Raoul Jean Moulin

The 1967 painting Histoire de l’Oeil which is now in the Museum's Andre Dubois collection and also appears on the collection's exhibition poster and invitations

The Musée d’ Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou aquired Rien d’Autre - Nothing Else, 1954

A large tapestry The Color of Perception, woven at Manufacture Gobelins, was commissioned for the Mobilier National Collection in Paris.