1/ Spiritual meeting between the poet FRANCOIS CHENG and the ‘Painting with Cinema’
After an exhibition at IMMIX Gallery... Joy and immense honor! François Cheng holds a ‘Painting with Cinema’ by Bernard Gast and has written two texts on his ‘Cine Painting’. It is after he read the book by Annette Michelson (volume 1) on Bernard’s creation, that the writer, poet, calligrapher and member of the French Academy sent him very beautiful calligraphed messages... Mr. François Cheng is indeed now the owner of one of his Paintings with Cinema, 'painted' in 2000, whose title is Nature III (image n°1). To accompany this work, Bernard Gast has specially written and dedicated the poem ‘Heaven breathes in present’ to friend François Cheng. And in response, Mr. Cheng calligraphed one of the lines from Bernard’s poem: ‘Open your sensitive path and sow beyond’...
To Mr. François Cheng – June 2025
Heaven breathes in present
Some shreds of Light tell us to be thereTo act at the just moment To watch death
Which is only sleep and end of the body’s exile
Open your sensitive path and sow beyond
2/ Quotation HOTEL DROUOT
Bernard learns that one of the four prints from 'Melancolic waltz', which he created in 2013, was bought at auction. This work had been sold in 2018 by the Blue Palm Gallery (Los Angeles) to an American collector. The latter probably resold it in 2025. And this 'Melancholic waltz' (0.60 x 0.60 m - 23.6220472 in) is now with a new collector who acquired it under the auctioneer’s hammer for the handsome sum of €5200 at the Hôtel DROUOT (lot n°215 – EA n°4) at the end of April 2025. From 'Valse mélancolique' exists a total of four numbered prints in EA (Artist’s Proof) and a large format with its 'Matrix'.
3/ Grand Palais/RMN & Centre Pompidou
With Art Brut, Bruno Decharme & Barbara Safarova exhibit at the Centre Pompidou what it is agreed to name the intimacy of a collection: that of the Decharme donation. From June 20 to September 21, 2025, why not show next to Bernard’s drawing Décrocher la lune, The Man in the Moon by Oswald Tschirtner, created the same year in 1979? Ditto facing a sketch by Peter KOLéOM (Bernard Gast’s pseudonym for his drawings) L'école du Monde in front of a drawing by Georgiana Houghton. This face in L'école du Monde, which seems to melt into a cosmic night, was stuck on the walls of the capital that year, as a good 'street artist' that KOLéOM was already...
The 400 works in this Art Brut exhibition come from the donation made by Bruno Decharme to the Musée national d'art moderne (Modern Art National Museum) du Centre Pompidou.
Curatoring - Bruno Decharme - Collector and director
Barbara Safarova – Teacher to Louvre’s school and ‘chercheuse’
Associeted curators - Cristina Agostinelli - Attachée de conservation et responsable de programmation, service des collections contemporaines, Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou
Céline Gazzoletti - Historienne de l’art
Valérie Loth - Attachée de conservation, cabinet d’art graphique, Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou
Diane Toubert - Archiviste, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou
Scénographie - Corinne Marchand
The lighting of a part of the exhibition was made by the support of Sammode, manufacturer of luminaire.
4/ Cartier-Bresson Foundation & An article by Bernard Gast on the philosoph Henri Bergson in Review TK 21 Arts & Society
https://www.henricartierbresson.org/expositions/richard-avedon-in-the-american-west/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8sX-Lhqsj8 https://www.tk-21.com/L-intuition-eclairante
From April 30 to October 12, 2025, Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation presents 'In the american west' by photographer Avedon. At the request of the 'Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth – Texas – USA)', Richard Avedon photographs the inhabitants of the American West. Created between 1979 and 1984, these photographic portraits are major works that feature humble individuals marked by an inner wealth (Passers-by, fairground workers, miners,...)
At the same time, I am preparing an article on Bergson for LaRevue TK 21 Arts & Société. Is it conceivable to link the face of Clifford Feldner (Image no. 8), an unemployed worker whose suffering is profound and the thought of Henri Bergson? This modest American with a strong presence evokes the will of men’s bodies to live, not to say survive... The idea of the future is more fruitful than the future itself, writes Bergson, and social cohesion is due in large part to the need for a society to defend itself against others. What a cold and sad winter in these eyes, seen by Avedon; despite this ruin, the philosopher knows that the hero’s call can awaken the sleeping strength of the people…
Abrams editions – Clément Chéroux – Chanel Culture Fund – Trois couleurs
Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation : Président, Serge Toubiana
5/ To Grand Palais, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hulten
Co-produced with the Centre Pompidou, a beautiful exhibition that clearly shows how Niki and Jean are accomplices: their creativity is so linked... without forgetting the necessary presence of Pontus Hulten.