Bernard Dumaine

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Bernard Dumaine (born August 20, 1953 in Angoulême, France) is a French artist best known for his work in photorealism and surrealism styles and for his background designs[1] for television cartoons. He works in a variety of media, including oil paints, acrylic paints, graphite pencil, digital painting, digital collage, and video.

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Self Portrait, graphite pencil, 1983

Life and work

He graduated in sculpture with a mention for drawing in 1977 in Angers ( Maine et Loire, France ). Many single and group exhibitions followed, both locally and internationally. His early work included drawings in the style of photorealist and surrealist oil paintings.

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Fond et la forme, oil on canvas, 1983

He is currently working mostly in digital media,[2] oil paints, and pencil. He is also doing Exquisite corpse works[3] in collaboration with many artists internationally,[4] and these collaborative works have recently been exhibited in galleries across France.[5]

He has a DeviantArt page which also contains a link to this Wikipedia page.

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Doigt, oil on canvas, 2000
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No Man's Land, oil on canvas, 2002
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Search 02, digital painting
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Untitled, digital painting exquisite corpse with Pinina Podesta, 2005

Group exhibitions

"Painting with pixels" - Cork Gallery, New York City, USA (2004)[6]

"32 bit Connection" - Museumsquartier (MQ), Vienna - Austria (2004)[7]

International Surrealist Show 2006 - Spencer, Iowa[8]

"Chimeria" - Sedan, France 2009[9]

Energy Art Salon 2010 - Chicago, USA[10]

Museu Brasileiro da Escultura - São Paulo, Brazil "Toyart" (2011)[11]

Collettiva Surrealista "Linguaggi d'Arte" (2011) - Floridia, Italy[12]

"Imagining science" - University of Reading (UK) (2013) - Exquisite corpses with Sally Hunter and Immy Smith

"Symbols and archetypes" - Dedalus Studi, Teramo, Italy (2013)[13]

"Luci e Ombre, Tribute to H.R. Giger" Teramo, Italy (2015)[14]

"Book Launch and Psychedelic Art Gallery" The Bently Reserve, San Francisco, CA (2015) [15]

"The resurrection of the Exquisite Corpse" Artworks, Richmond, VA, United States (2015) [16]

Personal exhibitions

"Séries" - Galerie Rivaud, Poitiers , France (2014)[17]

Publications

  • selected works in Renderosity: Digital Art for the 21st Century (2004, Collins Design) by John Grant and Audre Vysniauskas
  • Search 02 in Issue #1, Dark Recesses Press (Dark Recesses Press, 2005)
  • selected works in Metamorphosis (2006, Jon Beinart)
  • selected work in Imagine The Imagination : new visions of Surrealism (2009, nEgoist Sp.z.o.o.)
  • selected work in Visionary Art Yearbook (2010, edited by Otto Rapp)
  • " Miximages " 80 Exquisite corpses in pencils (Blurb, 2010, ISBN 978-2-9538353-0-4 )
  • selected works in Anarchy Mag, Issue #70/71,#72/73,#74 (Freedom press, 2011-2013)
  • selected works in Rebirth of the exquisite corpse (2011, ISBN 978-1-4476-6398-0) by Anthony Mason
  • selected works in Collaborative Corpse Yearbook 2010-2011 (2011, Blurb) by George Teseleanu
  • selected works in Eco-Ar-Te para o reencantamento do mundo by SATO, Michèle (Org.) São Carlos: RiMa & Cuiabá: FAPEMAT, 2011
  • selected works in Artelibre - arte y libertad VI (Editorial Comuniter, S.L.,ISBN 10: 84-15126-19-5,2012)
  • selected works in Biomech Art by Martin de Diego Sádaba (Graffito books) ISBN 978-1909051027, 2013
  • selected works in Lithaire by Pierre Petiot (La Belle Inutile Editions) ISBN 9781291616743, 2013
  • selected work in The Horror Magazine by Jeani Rector (Horror Zine, The /2013)ISBN 0615914217
  • selected work in The spindle's arc by J. Karl Bogartte (La Belle Inutile Éditions /2014)ISBN 9781312058026
  • selected work in Insidieux by Pierre Petiot (La Belle Inutile Editions) ISBN 9781291661989, 2014
  • selected work in Mona Lisa Reimagined by Erik Maell (Goff Books) ISBN 978-1-939621-26-9, 2015

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