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The Spirit of Painting: The ‘Painting with Cinema’


Two videos about Bernard Gast’way

« With Bernard Gast’s work, a whole new aesthetic concept is born: ‘Paintings with Cinema!’. Each of his works is entirely derived from movies and realized with 35 mm film strips from Cinema. The artist begins by making a transparent ‘Matrix’.to say an object, a tinkering and poetic that he creates with the very material of these films of Cinema» (1).


(1) Annette MICHELSON – Paintings with Cinema by Bernard Gast (2021) ; according to ‘Annette Michelson – Bernard Gast : Cine Painting’ in ‘October edition’ book – I Gallery Editions, ART collection



Bernard Gast, The Matrix of Let’s frame the rout (2002)

The ‘Matrix’ of ‘Let’s frame the rout’ (2002)

Work offered in 3 Artist's Proof (0,42 X 0,63m) or a large print run (1,26 x 1,89 m)

Paintings with cinema

A ‘Painting with Cinema’ is complete with its ‘Matrix’, its title and its poem.

Paintings with cinema

A ‘Painting with Cinema’ is complete with its ‘Matrix’, its title and its poem.

“I paint with Cinema!”