« Even if there can be tracks, splashes of paint and relief, the essential lies in the scraping, the trailing, the meticulous excavation like on an archaeological dig, the hunt for ghosts hidden between two layers or levels, » Michel Butor, writer.

« Pierre Marie Brisson is a facile draughtsman, a superb and sensitive colorist, a master of design and composition, and a creator of richly tactile surfaces. » Robert Flynn Johnson, curator.

« These images remind us of something, a precious and gentle memory… » Jean Rouaud, writer.

[Press Review]

Biography

Pierre Marie Brisson

 

Born June 1955 in Orléans.

1972.  He makes the acquaintance of the painter Bernard Saby who encourages him.
1975.  First exhibition at the Charles Péguy museum in Orléans, his hometown..
1978.  First exhibition at the Lucette Herzog gallery in Orléans.
1979.  Works on his first etchings in the Pasnic atelier, Paris.
1980.  First exhibition in New York organized by the publisher Bruno
Roulland.
From 1981 to 2006. Regular exhibitions in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden and the United States of America where he is recognised as a major artist and is present in a number of collections, both public (Fine Arts Museums, Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale …) and private (Mr. Pier Luigi Loro Piana, Société Générale, …).

He now lives between San Francisco, Paris and Nîmes, near the Scamandre vines that he helped establish amongst the ranks of the great Rhone valley wines.

Expositions

2007

   Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York and San               Francisco (20 YEARS IN AMERICA)
   Ulrike Petschelt Gallery, Kassel (Germany)
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   Galerie Jane Griffiths, Val d'Isère (january-april)
   FAE Galerie L’Atelier, Boulogne (march-april)

2006
   Galerie Fallet, Geneva
   Art London, London (with Ariel Sibony Gallery )
   Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles
   Ariel Sibony Gallery, Paris
   Ducastel Gallery, Avignon
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, San Francisco

2005
   Arsenal de Metz, Metz
   Palm Beach Contemporary Art Fair, Palm Beach
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, New York
   Palm Springs Art Expo, Palm Springs
   FAE Galerie L’Atelier, Boulogne

2004
   Musée d’Art et d’histoire of Cognac, Cognac
   Villa Béatrix-Enea and Georges
   Pompidou Gallery, Anglet
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, New York
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, San Francisco
   Musée de L'Hospice St. Roch, Issoudun
   Collégiale St Pierre de Puellier, Orléans
   Fabrice Galvani Gallery, Toulouse
   Fallet Gallery, Genêve

2003
   Musée des Beaux Arts, Gaillac
   Musée Faure, Aix-les-Bains
   Art-Sénat (Orangerie du Sénat), Paris
   Art-Paris (Frédéric Storme Gallery, Lille)
   Carré Sainte Anne, Montpellier
   Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills
   Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York,
   San Francisco

2002
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, New York
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, San Francisco
   Ducastel Gallery, Avignon

2001
    Simon Patrich Gallery, New York
   Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles

2000
   Yarger Arts Gallery, Los Angeles
   Rivington Gallery, London
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, New York
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, San Francisco
   ARTENIM, Nîmes
   Pasnic Gallery, Paris
   Frédéric Storme Gallery, Lille

1999
   Städtisches Museum, Gelsenkirchen
   Arte Gallery, Dakar
   Art Galerie, Ute Mronz, Cologne
   Die Wallstrasse Galerie, Mönchengladbach
   AA Gallery, Clermont-Ferrand
   Château de Lussan, France
   Galerie de Bernardi, Aix-la-Chappelle
   Carcan Foundation, Belgium
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, New York
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, San Francisco

1998
   New York Art Fair (Simon Patrich Gallery)
   Thierry Spira Gallery, Paris
   Galerie Couleurs du Temps, Genève
   SAGA, Paris ( Thierry Spira Gallery)
   Galerie Voigt, Nüremberg
   Galerie Kühn, Berlin
   Chapelle des Capucins, Aigues Mortes
   FranceFranklin Bowles Gallery, New York
   Yarger Gallery, Los Angeles
   Médiathèque de Miramas, France
   Lucien Schweitzer Gallery, Luxembourg
   La Cour des Arts Gallery, Belfort
   Editions Terminus, Munich

1997
   Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver
   B.C. Faure Museum, Aix les Bains
   Thierry Spira Gallery, Paris
   Raphael Gallery, Frankfurt
   Bowles Gallery, New York, San Francisco.
   Bowles Yarger Gallery, Los Angeles.
   Couleurs du Temps Gallery, Genève
   Galerie Sundermann, Würzburg
   Schweitzer Gallery, Luxembourg
   Espace Ecureuil, Marseille
   FranceGalerie Horizon, Marseille
   FranceGalerie Avantgarde, Manheim, Allemagne
   Galerie Raphaël, Frankfort, Allemagne
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, New York ; San Francisco
   Yarger Gallery, Los Angeles
    Couleurs du Temps Gallery, Genève
   Casino, Vals-les-Bains

1996
   Bowles Gallery, New York.
   Salon de Mars, Paris
   Salon International d'Art Contemporain, Strasbourg
   Chapelle des Capucins, Aigues Mortes
   Franklin Bowles Gallery, New York
   Yarger Gallery, Los Angeles

1995
   Simon Patrich Gallery,Vancouver
   Galerie Petra Pfeiffer,Würzburg
   Espace Martiningo, Chambéry
   Luzette Herzog Gallery, Paris
   Raphael Gallery, Frankfurt
   Thierry Spira Gallery, Paris
   International Biennal for Graphics Arts, Ljubljana,
   Slovénia
   Bowles-Sorokko Gallery, New York, Los Angeles,
   San Francisco

1994
   Thierry Spira Gallery, Paris
   SAGA, Grand Palais, Paris
   International Fair of Art, Düsseldorf
   Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany
   Raphaël Gallery, Frankfort, A
   Bowles-Sorokko Gallery, New York, San Francisco
   Médicis Gallery, Besançon

1993
   Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
   Galerie de Hesdin, Paris, France.
   Saga, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
    William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles Int.
   Hyatt Hotel, Tokyo ; British International Hotel,
   Kyoto
   Bowles-Sorokko Gallery, New York, Los Angeles,
   San Francisco

1992
   Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver
   ART/ L.A. William Turner Gallery, Venice
   Chicago International Art Exhibition
   Luzette Herzog Gallery, Paris, France
   Bowles-Sorokko Gallery, New York ; Los Angeles
   San Francisco
   Galerie Platform, Beirut
   ART/LA, William Turner Gallery
   Chicago International Art Exposition, Venice
   SAGA, Paris

1991
   Galerie de Menton, Paris
   Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver
   Opera de Rouen, Rouen
   Ashiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
   Centre George Pompidou , Paris
   Galerie de Hesdin, Paris
   SAGA, Paris (Lucette Herzog Gallery)
   Bowles-Sorokko Gallery, Los Angeles,
   San Francisco

1990
   Bowles-Sorokko Gallery, Los Angeles
   Galerie Lucette Herzog, Paris
   Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver
   Exposition itinérante au Japon : Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe,    Kyoto

Collections

Fine Arts Museums, Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
Jewish Museum, New York
George Page Museum, Los Angeles
Post Office Museum, Paris
Beaux Arts Museum, Gaillac
Faure Museum, Aix-les-Bains
Städtisches Museum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen
Art&History Museum, Belfort
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Carré Noir, Paris
Groupe Cartier, Paris
Société Générale, Paris
Lecoanet-Hemant, haute couture, Paris
Zurich Insurance, Paris
Novotel collection, Groupe Accor
Collection Nissan, Japon
Vanderderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
University of San Francisco, San Francisco

M. Pier Luigi Loro Piana, private collection, Milano
Mrs. Amelia Fortabat, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Approaches to artworks

In 1997, the critic and publisher, Michel Archimbaud, exchanged ideas with Pierre Marie Brisson that retain their interest and clearly indicate the cardinality in which paintings were up until today: primitive force, classicism of themes and modernity of approaches..
--> Read the interview with Michel Archimbaud