PIERRE-YVES BOHM
« Je traverse un monde aveugle et je peins. »
Peinture, dessins, collages.
Exhibition from the 5th of April to the 9th of June 2025
‘I take my time. I like the idea that we can still spend time’. (P-Y B)
The time taken by the artist to create his work, whose techniques require a great deal of meticulousness, is matched by the time taken by the public to explore works teeming with images and details.
Pierre-Yves BOHM's sensitivity and his inner demand for freedom guide him on his singular path, away from artistic trends but not from the convulsions of the world.
The titles of his works bear witness to this: Volka Krigo, Nuage de guerre, La Chute militaire, La folie du père, Amour et la guerre, Leurre Tueur II...
Echoing the violence of the world, his paintings take on a sombre quality. The colours, sometimes shimmering, mark the canvas like shrapnel. His greens ‘are not chlorophyll’... ‘influenced by ancient painting, to speak of illness and death, green... before dead flesh’. (P-Y.B).
Volka Krigo evokes the war in Ukraine. A dense grey shower of newspaper extracts falls on a floor strewn with skeletons.
The various scenes of conflict in the world are present in La Chute, as are climate and migration problems, always on the side of civilians and those who suffer. It is a continuous flow of interconnected words that evokes them and unites them in the inexorable movement of the fall of a disjointed body.
He chooses commitment, rejecting victimisation, and places his hopes in humanism: ‘I believe in man. I can talk about serious things but, with painting, there is always light and hope. ’
‘Even if there is violence, my work will perhaps soothe and filter that violence.
When you read on the label of a work ‘mixed technique’, you can hardly imagine the variety and richness of the additions that enliven her canvases: ‘amulets, charms, pendants, pearls, pouches, spikes, metal spikes, vignettes, fragments of fabric or mirrors, pieces of wood, ceramics, fragments of writing...’(J-P.L)
This exhibition gives pride of place to recent works, ‘an ensemble of powerful unity, a sequence almost entirely in black and white or grisaille’ (J-P.L).
‘I don't want to cultivate suffering, but I am closer to people who are suffering, who are having a hard time’.
