- Inventory – Tribute to – Reward
This serie is a tribute to people, events or myths which seems to me marking the creative world or our imagination. This work is also an extension to my book about our understanding of images.
L’image essentiellement, essentiellement l’image. L’image n’est pas seulement picturale.
Accueil > English > Pictorial creations
“An exhibition, a book, a movie or an art installation are aperture which others may look throught.” [1]
“Shooting is knowing when you don’t have to shoot.” [2]
Writing with my eyes is my profession, and this profession is built on two pillars :
– Visual creation
– Writing about imaging
This serie is a tribute to people, events or myths which seems to me marking the creative world or our imagination. This work is also an extension to my book about our understanding of images.
« Et, si c’était vrai 2010-2080... Retour vers le Futur... / And, if that was true 2010-2080... Back to the Futur... » A cycle on flooded towns A coverage back to the future ; urbanism and water management.
Take a stroll through the Jardin des Tuileries, lose yourself for a moment, for a space, and rediscover the faces of time. From one end of history to the other, freeze a few droplets of time and discover the metamorphoses of the Jardin des Tuileries over the course of thirty years or more, transcribed in photographs and film by Hervé Bernard Rvb.
French Version Mixed technics, Hervé BERNARD Exhibition in beetween 20 and 95 panels (2,5 x 0,7m panel or 3,5 x 1,2m). This exhibition goes with three videos. One is visible on the net, link at the end of the text. « Mais où est le péril, / Là croit aussi ce qui sauve. » Hölderlin "It is a sad thing to see nature is speaking to us and the Humanité is not listening." Victor Hugo “This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It’s lonely. It’s small. It’s isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest (…)
Protect, Monitor, Prohibit where the nuance lies in societies, cultures where, more and more, everyone is monitoring everyone with increasing effectiveness to the point that these three terms form a new Holy Trinity which is one of the essential mantras of our societies. However, in spite of our technological armada dedicated to remote surveillance, Artificial Brambles are at the forefront of an undeniable topicality and in spite of their effectiveness, which is also relative.
A visual exploration of the boundaries between photography and painting by Hervé Bernard
3D photographies and printings of seashells, peaces of wood, mechanical objects, Medea and Maillol sculpture, African mask and contemporary sculpures by Hervé Bernard
Short movies directed by Hervé Bernard : Fiction Docu-fiction Documentary Drone-and aerial shooting For seeing the videos, clic on the article tittle or on the blue link.
This set of works is personnal research which are composition of pictures and texts for posters, books or others...
Excerpt from Herve Bernard's archives in a random presentation. Images subject : anthropecene, urbanism, #OceanForClimate, borders, water, urban nature, town, townscape, Le Jardin des Tuileries, global warming ...
One week, one photography and time to time more. 2008 to 2014 All the photographies are available to be baught as an artprint signed and numbered.