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Rancillac, Bernard

Bernard Rancillac 1931 Born on August 29th in Paris on rue Hallé. He is the oldest of five brothers of whom one: Paul became the sculptor Jean-Jules Chassepot. Spent most of his youth up until 1937 in Algeria. Throughout the war, he was in his father’s house in Yssingeaux in the Haute-Loire and studied at a religious college. After the war, he returned to Bourg-la-reine. Finished his studies at the Lycée Lakanal. 1949 Under family pressure, he prepars without convinction for a ‘Professorat de dessin’ at Met de Penninghen’s studio where he meets Bernard Aubertin. 1953 Military service in Meknès. A local bookstore, ‘la Comédie humaine’, exhibits his first drawings. 1955 Returns to France. First studio at Bourg-la-reine while acting as an instructor. 1956 First solo exhibition at the Galerie Le Soleil. 1958 A contract with the Doctor Audouin, collector, allows him to quit teaching. 1961 Painting prize at the Biennale de Paris. He maries MArie-Claude Teuma and installs at the rue des Carmes. 1959 – 1962 He studies engraving at the Atelier 17 of S.W. Hayter 1963 Around Galerie Fels the first core of the Nouvelle Figuration forms 1964 With Gassiot-Talabot, Télémaque and Foldes, he co-organizes the exhibition ‘Mythologies quotidiennes’. The birth of his daughter Nathalie; he creates a piece in honor of her each year. 1965 His exhibition at Mathias Fels surprises the public and critics. 1967 Séjour in Havana with the salon de mai. 1968 May. Serigraphic posters at the Atelier populaire des beaux-arts. 1969 First retrospectives at Vitry then at Museums in Saint-Etienne and Brest. 1970 Studio in the Bastille. 1971 He installs in the Ecluse de Boran-sur-Oise where he works for around 10 years. In charge of a course at the Univerisité de Paris I. 1982 Takes on the ‘Images éclatées’ in his new studio in Arcueil. Between 1982 and 1987, he creates theater scenes for the plays by Michel Puig at the Théâtre des Ulis and tries different roles: Téramène dans Phèdre de Racine, Trissotin dans les Femmes savantes de Molière, Basile dans le Barbier de Séville d’après Beaumarchais et Rossini. 1986 Marries Arghyro Paouri and moves to Malakoff the following year. 1988 Travels to China where he presents at conferences for the ‘Principales écoles des beaux-arts’. Currently lives and works in Paris Selected Exhibitions 2002 Galerie Serge Laurent, Paris, France 2001 Les Années Pop, Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 2001 Morceaux choisis, Galerie Sonia Zannettacci, Genève, Switzerland. solo 2000 Algérie, Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maitres, Lyon, France; Rancillac, Palais des Congrès, Paris, France -solo 2000 Les Créateurs de meubles du XXe siècle, Salon du Meuble, Parc des expositions de la Porte de Versailles, Paris, France La Figuration Narrative, Villa Tamaris Pacha, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France; Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Danemark, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland . (A cette occasion parution de la Figuration Narrative par Jean Louis Pradel) 1999 I love Pop, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome (cat.Lôrand Haegyi) Pop Impressions, Moma, New York, U.S.A 1998 Jazz, Fort Napoléon, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France solo 1997 Pop 60, Centre Culturel de Bellem, Portugal (cat.Marco Livingstone) 1996 Extrême Occident, Villa Tamaris Pacha, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France La leçon de peinture, Centre Culturel Noroît, Arras, France. catalogue: texte Alain Jouffroy (solo) 1995 Plein cadre, Galerie Sonia Zannettacci, Genève, Switzerland 1994 Hors les Murs, Musée des Beaux Arts, Clermont Ferrand, France 1994 Orient-Occident, Abbaye saint André, Meymac, France. catalogue: texte Paul Ardenne (solo) 1992 Sud-Sud, Galerie Vincent, Ile de la Réunion, France -solo 1992 Figurations critiques, ELAC, Lyon, France (cat. Pierre Gaudibert) 1991 1931-61-91, Galerie Thierry Salvador, Paris, France -solo 1990 Nouvelle Figuration, Galerie Schwarz, Los Angeles, U.S.A Literature Bernard Rancillac, texte de Serge Fauchereau, Editions du Cercle d’Art, Paris, 1991 Rancillac/Jazz, Texte de Jean-Louis Ferrier, Editions du Cercle d’Art, Paris, 1997 Peindre à l’acrylique, Editions Bordas, 1987 By Bernard Rancillac Voir et comprendre la peinture, Editions Bordas, 1992 By Bernard Rancillac Le regard idéologique, Editions Somogy et Guéna, 2000 By Bernard Rancillac

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