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Manuele Bernardi was born in 1959 in Saint-Tropez. She lives and works in Roussillon, in the south of France. After completing studies at the Roederer Academy in Paris, she completed night courses at Beaux Arts while working as a décor creator for publicity films, a newspaper, and other advertising campaigns. She started as an illustrator of children’s books, became a painter, and now expresses herself through her sculpture.
This artist and her work is anchored in her environment, whether in the countryside of the Luberon or the
sophistication of bustling cities. She observes and utilizes what intrigues her: roots, twigs, seeds, stones as well as paper, film, cloth and glass; transforming them so that a cluster of grapes becomes an aerial journey as butterflies find their way from darkness to light. As she magnifies aspects of her environment, her work, after passing through the filter of her hands, always displays what we have previously failed to see. She demonstrates its meaning and therein lies her generosity.
"I'm a forager. My work elevates the vegital world that we all know but rarely observe in its all its magnificence. Slowing down, taking the time to behold, contemplate - allows me to create by using the natural elements that I encounter while foraging.
This relationship with flora inspires and guides me to assemble and arrange a palette of natural elements. They translate what I feel while in nature. I see the vegetation as a medium to express my emotions. I use nylon thread as its transparency balances the fragility of my work. The visual translucency gives the impression that one breath could destroy it all: a reflection of the impermanence of life. The very real and onerous threat to nature makes me that much more attentive to my surroundings each time I go out. Nature is, for me, the poet, the words and the poetry - the spirit of the earth."
- Creator:Manuèle Bernardi (1959, French)
- Dimensions:Height: 18.51 in (47 cm)Width: 11.03 in (28 cm)Depth: 7.09 in (18 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1566212127942
Manuèle Bernardi
After studying at the Académie Roederer and the Beaux-Arts in Paris (1983), Manuèle Bernardi became a decorator and costume designer. In 1990 Manuèle Bernardi chose to devote herself to more personal work through different mediums: drawing, then sculpture.
Since 2014, she has created her first installations under plexiglass, and in 2021 she presents her first works embroidered on paper.
All the works are the expression of one and the same quest. Manuèle Bernadi explores the link, the relationship to the other. It is an optimistic and positive message that is deli-
vered by the artist.
In her representation of women, her sculptures, terracotta or bronzes, Callipyges, with wide feet firmly anchored in reality, unconditionally turn to the other. She seeks to make
perceptible the invisible emotion of two beings who connect, the alchemy of a group moving towards a common destination.
In her installations, whose frail material is consolidated by invisible threads, Manuèle studies flora and fauna as a source of inspiration for a common life where the link forms a bulwark. The sculpture-volumes, real biotopes, set themselves up as a protective shield for a materialistic everyday life.
If Manuèle Bernardi’s installations have a high poetic density, they conceal in their heart
a disturbing fragility. Tied to nylon threads, these little things wobble happily on themselves, oblivious to their meaning. Individually they are the traces of a past life, of
manslaughter, together they reform a thrilling ecosystem that seeks to protect its center.
A new constellation around a visible or hidden star that breathes new life into it. The allegory does not end there, Manuèle protects her installations with a sheet of transparent plexiglass which is reminiscent of the ozone layer.
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