Susanna Fritscher
The Artist – 2021 season
The work of Susanna Fritscher has a strong relationship with architecture. Space is her medium but not her subject. She seizes it to blur and reinvent the visitor’s perception and offers an experience that disturbs the look and the sensations. Without prior idea, no indication. or sentimentality, his work offers the viewer the possibility of total freedom.
Susanna Fritscher
The Approach – slideshow
Susanna Fristcher found in the architect’s organic gesture an apparent link with his sculptures entitled «Souflles». For this series, she asked master glassmakers of the Cristalleries Saint Louis not to produce a form but to make visible the gesture and the air that produces it by pushing the matter, the crystal, to the challenge of gravity up to the limit of the breaking point
Susanna Fritscher
The artwork – slideshow
By installing «Souffle», Susanna Fritscher sought to create a dialogue between the solidity of architectural forms and the fragility of crystal. Placed in the living room, the gaze discovers his work under a multiplicity of perspectives. Transparent, it appears, dissolves and reflects the smallest luminous variations that make it a work always in motion.
Yves Gellie
The Artist – 2019 season
Since the 1980s, Yves Gellie has shared a long history with Maison Bernard, which has allowed him to perceive and understand the characteristics of Antti Lovag’s architecture in time. Invited by the endowment fund, he created a series of images very far from traditional architectural images focusing mainly on color.
Yves Gellie
Sister room – video
Yves Gellie has set up a real photographic studio in a room that concentrates all the chromatic range used in the house. He relied on the specific properties of photography, in this case light, to reduce a three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional space, giving us to see large aplats of colors that evoke an abstract composition and the raw material of the wall.
Yves Gellie
Neon – slideshow
By seeking to restore the fugacity and variation of the light of the different spaces of the house, Yves Gellie created a singular video installation, going into the infinitely small of an image, the pixel. And, pixel by pixel, he managed to reproduce the light variations that the camera could not capture.
Emma Dusong
The artist – 2017 season
Emma Dusong was born in 1982. A graduate from the School of Fine Arts of Paris with honors of the jury, she shows her work in France and abroad since the early 2000s. She had shows in 2016 at CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon in Sète, at CAIRN in Digne-les-Bains and at Centre Pompidou in Paris during the exhibition Polyphonies.
Emma Dusong
the approach – video
In a video made by Sandra Aïd and Michael Rudiger for the show Metropolis broadcasted on Arte, Emma Dusong explains how she imagines to make the house sing by looking for the composition, the voice and the melody the most right in relation with the architecture of Antti Lovag.
Emma Dusong
The artwork – slideshow
Emma Dusong researches living experiences through the human voice as it speaks or sings. As a breath, her voice follows emotions, transforming itself and becoming for us the living source of an interior movement.
Paul Armand Gette
The artist – 2015 season
Paul Armand Gette is an artist who likes to cover his tracks. His work explores the edges because he considers this to be where all possible developments can be found, a place of openings and a starting point for perception. His project is to challenge our perspective, to reveal, to suggest more than show by seeking the metaphoric dimensions of bodies and landscapes.
Paul Armand Gette
the opening – video
On September 26th 2015, The Maison Bernard Endowment Fund hosted the opening of Paul Armand Gette’s artwork « Un point de vue inhabituel ! – 2015 ». During this event, the artist read his text « Une journée dans la Maison Bernard ou l’abandon de l’orthogonalité » written specifically for this project . Then he proceeded to a celebration of « L’apothéose des fraises ou les menstrues de la déesse »
Paul Armand Gette
The artwork – slideshow
For his intervention in the Maison Bernard, 0m. emerged as self-evident. Paul Armand Gette chose to engrave this on the toilet’s glass window that opens onto the Mediterranean Sea.. Borrowed from natural sciences, 0m., a specific feature of the artist’s vocabulary, suggests a commencement and materializes the beginning of a landscape that integrates the architecture of Antti Lovag and the sea’s horizon.