Standing in front of "Landscapes of the Unspoken", by Marc Baufrère, a sort of physical coercion compels you into the heart of the painting. Suddenly light-headed, you can't escape the unceasing commotion of forms, the shadowy forces, like being suspended in empty space.
His technique gives the work the quality of alchemy, as if each painting were an enchanted vehicle, a vehicle transporting you to and from all the diverse moods of the soul. Each work has a noticeable permeability, allowing the spectator to venture into worlds of indeterminate sensations.
Like Antonin Artaud or Henri Michaud before him, Marc Baufrère conducts the inexpressible and fleeting impressions of mental states. His visions become clear with the rhythm of the paint on the canvas, an explosive symbiosis of cerebral flux and painterly execution. Playing with tonalities that are alternatively white-hot, soothing or icy-cold, the forms created produce a charge for the imagination. Once a painting is finished, Baufrère gives it a title that comes spontaneously from the sensations of that particular act of painting:
"I work with an urgency that I've never been able to get away from: the urgency of absolute silence where there is only room for mind; matter annihilating matter."
He works in his own time, partly aligned with notions of the Surrealists, partly beyond them, in a world of his own making. Distancing himself as much as possible to let the properties of the paint, canvas and the moment assert themselves, he becomes an explorer-a discoverer of the very worlds he creates.
Considering the ethereal paintings of Baufrère, one must admit speaking of unidentified subjects the way one would of unidentified flying objects.
His compositions challenge our perception with their vocabulary of primal forms culled from the depths of our collective imagination.
1948
Born in Paris, France
Selected Exhibitions
2015
Marc Baufrère Abstract Art Exhibition
Xinyangguang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Xun Art Museum, Beijing, China
Shijiazhuang Museum, Shijiazhuang, China
Beishang Chongqing Art Space, Chingqing, China
2014
Shimenfeng Culture Park, Wuhan, China
Suzhou Cultural Creative Design Fair, Suzhou, China
Xingtai Flower Art Festival, Xingtai, China
Xi'an International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Xi'an, China
Hejunfang Art Space, Beijing, China
Yuanzhen Gallery, Shanghai, China
International Youth Culture Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
Nide Museum, Beijing, China
Pace Gallery, Beijing, China
Songzhuang Art Festival, Beijing, China
Chinese Art Sunshine Industry Fair, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
The 1st Nanjing International Art Fair, Nanjing, China
Linyi International Art Exhibition, Linyi, China
2013
Dang Da Ming Jia Yaoqing Zhan, Lijiang, China
Art Beijing (Beijing-China)
Wutong International Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Da He Gulf Museum, Beijing, China
Not Strangers at Huan Dao Gallery, Beijing, China
Park Fine Art Gallery, Albuquerque, U.S.A
16th Art Expo, Beijing, China
Cross Gallery, Beijing, China
Rodin gallery, Beijing, China
2012
CAD Galerie, Huy, Belgium
Huitai international, Tianjin, China
Zibo International Art Exhibition, Zibo, China
EW Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
Almelec Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Park Fine Art, Albuquerque, U.S.A.
Wutong International Art Gallery, Beijing, China
5th Beijing International Art Biennale at the national museum of Beijing, China
2011
Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris, France
Cross gallery, Beijing, China
Permanence Gallery, 798-Beijing, China
Li Shu Bar Gallery, Song Zhuang, Beijing, China
Liyi university international exhibition, Liyi, China
2010
Salon paneuropéen, Paris, France
Sun Shine museum, Beijing, China
Asia Art Funds Gallery, Caochangdi, Beijing, China
"Couleurs de France" Shandong International Art Center, Jinan, China
JinDu Art Center, Beijing, China
SOLO Resonances: Museum of fine Arts, Wuhan, China
Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris, France
2009
Integration-Chinese and French Abstract Art Exhibition, Soemo Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Salon Paneuropeen, Paris, France
2008
Brigadoon Romain ville, Paris, France
Galerie "Art Fort Reveur" (Bruxelles) ( Belgium)
New Sun Shine Museum, Beijing, China
2007
Salon des réalités nouvelles, Paris, France
Imagine Gallery, Beijing, China
Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris, China
Since 2005
Permanent painter at the Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris, France
2004
Brigadoon Romainville, Paris, France
From 2003 on
The necessity to devote himself completely to painting, seems an evidence. All of his existence, his consciousness, his knowledge converge into it.
" I don't work like Van Eyk, Van Gogh, Matisse ou Duchamps, I neither want to inscribe nor to subtract, the extraction happens by itself. I work in a constant urgency. I never could get rid of it. The urgency of absolute silence where there is only room for the mind, matter destroy matter. He is not me who is painting, but through me that "it" paints."
1998
Salon des Artistes de l'Est Parisien 1er Prix, Paris, France
Salon de Fontenay sous bois
1997
Salon des Artistes de l'Est Parisien 1er Prix, Paris, France
1992
Galerie de l'escalier, Paris, France
Salon de Romainville, Paris, France
1991
K.O.H. , Paris, France
Salon de Romainville, Paris, France
Europe 2000 au Grand Palais, Paris, France
1990
Galerie Mezzanine ( Nanterre ) ( Paris )
Centre Pablo Neruda ( Corbeil ) ( Paris )
Chez M. Weymans, Agent d'art, Paris, France
Salon de Romainville, Paris, France