Pierre Buraglio
Pierre Buraglio
Born in 1939, in Charenton, France.
Works and lives in Maison-Alfort, France.
Education
1960 School of Fine Arts, Paris, France
Awards
1963 Prix ex aequo Biennale de Paris, France
1988 2nd prize, Ankara Biennial, Turkey
2012 Légion d'Honneur awarded on April 10 by Paul Chemetov at Mac/Val,
Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Residencies
2011 Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, France
2004 Musée des beaux arts, Lyon, France
Introduction
Pierre Buraglio was born in Charenton in 1939. He works and lives in Maisons-Alfort, France. He studied at l'École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Paris. In 1961, he participated for the first time in the Salon for young painters. Between 1963 and 1965, he spent some time in New York. These same years, he visited Robert Chastel's workshop in Paris. Between 1969 and 1974, he stopped painting due to becoming involved in politics. From 1976 to 2000, he taught at the regional school of Beaux-Arts in Valence and having been a visiting artist at l'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, then became a professor.
The first paintings by Pierre Buraglio were dense grounds of color that aimed for an assumed simplicity affirmed by the stapling, apparently in aleatory order, of fragments of canvases on cardboard supports. These works anticipated the stapling of green or blue Gauloise cigarette packs in the 1970s. In 1969, after the series of Camouflages (canvas surfaces painted white juxtaposed with rectangles of military camouflage textile) called into question pictorial representation, Buraglio decides to stop painting in order to dedicate himself to militant political activity. But he returns to painting in 1974, working on stretchers that evoke window frames, a theme he devotes himself to as of 1976. Since then, his art has developed between abstraction and figuration, proposing works that allude to the memory of a an experience which was lived or partially reconstructed.
Public collections
Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France
Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France
Des mondes dessinés, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
Fonds d'art contemporain, Paris, France
Centre d'arts plastiques et contemporains, Bordeaux, France
Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Etienne, France
Musée d'arts de Nantes, France
Musée d'art moderne de Paris, France
Musée départemental Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
Collection départementale d'art contemporain, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
FRAC Occitanie, Montpellier, France
Musée de Grenoble, France
Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Les abattoirs, Toulouse, France
FRAC Normandie, Rouen, France
Musée d'art contemporain, Marseille, France
Carré d'art, Nîmes, France
Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
Musée d'art moderne, Céret, France
FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
From 1961, he developed a passion for assemblages and drawings, three years later realizing his first 'recoveries', which were composed of superimpositions of glued paper. Following on came his first 'staplings' that gave Buraglio's art its mechanical characteristic. Cut up into irregular triangles, the fragments of painted canvas were then folded, reformed as rectangles and then hung on the frame.
Rejecting the easel painting for an image made up of several properties, the artist went between the vitality of colour and neutral shades for a jerky rhythm. Engaged socially, he exposed in the Salle Rouge at the Musée d'Art Moderne in order to draw attention to the Vietnam War and also showed work at the popular atelier at l'Ecole de Beaux Arts during the 'May 1968' protests. The next year, he took a break from art in order to dedicate himself to political militarism. He did return to his craft quite quickly however, in 1970, bringing together obsolete and worn-away objects such as window frames or gallic emballages.
He has exposed his works extensively throughout France. Considered to be in the same mould as Braque or Schwitters, his distinctly modern oeuvre has wowed the French art scene since the 1960's.
Pierre Buraglio, Paris
February 01 - March 16, 2024
Pierre Buraglio , Saint-Etienne
June 03 - July 13, 2023
Pierre Buraglio, Lyon
June 09 - July 23, 2022
Pierre Buraglio, Saint-Etienne
June 06 - July 31, 2019
Pierre Buraglio, New York
March 07 - April 27, 2019
Pierre Buraglio , Wandhaff
January 14 - March 25, 2017
Pierre Buraglio , Saint-Etienne
October 08 - December 12, 2015
Pierre Buraglio, Luxembourg
November 17, 2012 - February 02, 2013
Pierre Buraglio, Luxembourg
September 09 - November 06, 2010
Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
Collective, Paris
June 27 - July 13, 2024
At Jean Prouvé, Offsite
July 15 - July 18, 2021
Septet , Paris
December 16, 2020 - February 13, 2021
The Spaces In Between, New York
September 09 - November 07, 2020
At Jean Prouvé, Offsite
July 26 - July 28, 2020
Spring Saint-Étienne, Saint-Etienne
June 12 - July 25, 2020
Spring Paris, Paris
May 18 - July 23, 2020
Guerre(s), Paris
December 18, 2019 - February 01, 2020
Le grand détournement , Paris
June 27 - August 03, 2019
Unfurled: Supports/Surfaces 1966-1976, Offsite
February 01 - April 21, 2019
The Surface of the East Coast: Différance , New York
July 12 - September 29, 2018
10 YEARS in Luxembourg, Wandhaff
June 02 - August 04, 2018
Animals : intimates works, Paris
December 15, 2016 - February 04, 2017
Pierre Buraglio / Edouard Pignon, Paris
September 05 - October 18, 2014
Solo Shows
...Le maintenant avec un jadis et un lendemain..., Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Wandhaff, Luxembourg
La contredanse, Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France
B. cum libro, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
Galerie Trintignan, Montpellier, France
Group shows
2023
Des univers silencieux, Pierre Buraglio, Roland Cognet, Aurore Pallet, Julian Scalbert, curated by: Jean Marie Blanchet, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
L’autre musée, the treasures of a major contemporary art collection, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
The Truthful Eye: The Museum in the Second Degree, MAC VAL, Paris, France
2022
Hommage à Shirley Jaffe, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, Cloître Saint-Merri, Paris, France
Musées en exil, commissioned by: Vincent Honoré and Pauline Faure, MOCO, Montpellier, France
Les choses, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
2020
Printemps, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Printemps, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Étienne, France
Histoire de l'art cherche personnages…, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Drapé, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
D'une maison à l'autre, curated by: Emmanuel Ruben, Maison Julien Gracq, Mauges-sur-Loire, France
Papier sur le Génie - L'art du vitrail, Abbaye de Fontevraud, France Le parti de l'art, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, France
2019
Back to Simple Radical Gestures: The Supports/Surfaces Movement, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China
Incontri, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
Bientôt déjà hier, Métamorphose et écoulement du temps, Le Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Posture(s), approches de la figure, Galerie La Forest Divonne, Brussels, Belgium
Art Brussels 2019, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Brussels, Belgium
Drawing Now 2019, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
2018
Persona Grata, MACVAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Drawing Prints, Galerie Jourdan Seydoux, Berlin, Germany
Moyen-Âge, Renaissance, Art contemporain, Galerie Artenostrum, Dieulefit, France
Noir et Blanc, Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris, France
Images en lutte, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Under Erasure, Pierogi, New York, USA
Eric Seydoux: Meisters des Siebdrucks, Freund der Künstler, Jordan-Seydoux, Berlin, Germany
Supports/surfaces et après..., Galerie Clémence Boisanté, Montpellier, France
2017
The Surface of the East coast, curated by: Marie Maertens, Le 109, Nice, France
Le Massacre des innocents, Salle du Jeu de Paume, Domaine de Chantilly, France
Supports/Surfaces : les origines 1966-1970, Carré d'art, Nîmes, France
COLLISIONS, Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris, France
On aime l'art / Agnès B., Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Tout Balayer, Tout Assimiler, Galerie La Forest Divonne, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Passages. Vers une abstraction habitée, curated by: Amélie Adamo, Musée de l'abbaye de Sainte Croix, Sables d'Olonne, France
Paysageurs, Galerie Oliver Nouvellet, Paris, France
Rituels, répétitions, contraintes, tentations, Musée régional d'art contemporain, Sérignan, France
Lieux Mouvants, Lanrivain, France
Tableaux en souvenir de Jean Fournier, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
« R-K + H.B » PB avec Claude Buraglio, Maison des Arts, Bagneux, France
36/36, Assemblée Nationale, Paris, France
30 ans de la galerie, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
Le temps de l'audace et de l'engagement, IAC, Villeurbanne, France Matisse Now, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
2015
Le nu dans tous ses états, Galerie Hélène Trintignan, Montpellier, France En tandem, avec Claude Buraglio,
L'atelier blanc - Art contemporain, Villefranche de Rouergue, France
Que la rencontre vive..., Musée Bernard Boesch, Le Pouliguen, France
Carte blanche à..., Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
94/66, Musée d'art moderne de Collioure, Collioure, France
2014
Supports/Surfaces, CANADA Gallery, New York, USA
Pierre et Claude Buraglio + le collectif BGB, Centre d'art contemporain Eysines, Eysines, France
(im) matériel, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
La lumière, curated by: Bernard Collet, Centre d'art contemporain, Vienna, Austria
Frontalité, Château de Poncé, Poncé sur le Loir, France
Avec et sans peinture, Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Supports/Surfaces is alive and well, Galerie Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
2023
Glane : Pierre Buraglio, carnets, Ceysson-Éditions d'Art
2022
L'essentiel, Expérience collective d'art urbain et contemporain, Éditions Flammarion, by Antoine Besse and Élise Herszkowicz, Collection Beaux livres
2021
Van Gogh, Buraglio, mon père et les autres, by Armand Dupuy, Éditions L’Atelier Contemporain
2020
La peinture me regarde, Éditions L'Atelier contemporain, by Christian Prigent
2017
Notes discontinues - Ecrits 2005-2017, avec des textes retrouvés, moins ceux momentanément égarés, by Pierre Buraglio and Pierre Wat (foreword), Éditions L'Atelier contemporain
2012
Pierre Buraglio, d'après...Delacroix et autres maîtres, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Vannes, Éditions Apogée, by Sébastien Allard, Pierre Buraglio and Marie-Françoise Le Saux
2011
De l'ar(t)chitecture en milieu hospitalier : Buraglio, Pistoletto, Spalletti, by Isabelle Genyk, Isabelle Saint-Martin and Magali Uhl, Éditions Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest
2010
Supports/Surfaces, Ceysson Éditions, Foreword by Joe Fyfe, interview with Bernard Ceysson and Rachel Stella
2008
Pierre Buraglio: écrits caviardages 1963-2008, Lucien Kayser and Pierre Buraglio, Éditions du Centre National De Littérature
Figures d'artistes. entretiens, by Natacha Pugnet, Éditions Archibooks, Collection Voix
2007
Ecrits entre 1962 et 2007, Pierre Buraglio, Éditions Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Collection "D'art en questions"
2003
Pierre Buraglio. Prolongements et prélévements, Éditions du Musée Zadkine, Paris, Collection « L’atelier du sculpteur »
2001
Pierre Buraglio, by Pierre Wat, Éditions Flammarion
1991
Ecrits entre 1962 et 1990, by Pierre Buraglio, Published by Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), Paris, France
Exhibition catalogs (selection)
2022
Buraglio à l’épreuve de Balzac, Paris musées Éditions
2019
Pierre Buraglio, by Raphael Rubinstein, Pierre Wat and Sébastien Gokalp. Éditions Fabelio. Produced with the support of the Ceysson & Bénétière gallery and the collectors Gilles and Nadège Blanckaert, published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition "Bas voltage/1960-2019".;» MAMC de Saint-Étienne, Bilingual French/English edition
2014
Pierre Buraglio. Echos de 14/18 Son enfance/Sa Normandie, by Michel Natier, Annette Becker and Marie Bonnafé, in co-publication with Musée de Louviers, France
2013
Supports surfaces et après…, by Déborah Laks, Geneviève André-Acquier and Brigitte Quilhot-Gesseaume
2012
Pierre Buraglio. Le Parti pris des restes, by Sébastien Gokalp, co-published with Galerie Jean Fournier
2011
Buraglio, la guerre intime : les 2 Emile et Rosa, by Becker & Annette Prévost-Bault and Marie-Pascale. Historial de la Grande Guerre, Amiens, France
2010
Blok…Zoo...Hoc, by Karim Ghaddab, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris. LienArt Éditions, Collection Galerie J. Fournier
2009
Autour de Pierre Buraglio... Pierre Buraglio : d'après... autour... selon..., La Seyne-sur-Mer Villa Tamaris Centre d'art, Catalog of exhibitions at Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-Mer and Abbaye de Silvacane, La Roque d'Anthéron. Vincent Boulès, Jean Le Gac, Frédérique Lucien, Claude Tétot
Pierre Buraglio, Actes sud Éditions, Collection Musée Fabre, This small collection includes the exhibition schedule for 2009
2008
Pierre Buraglio dans le fonds, oeuvres de 1966 à 1997, published on the occasion of the exhibition "Pierre Buraglio. Dans le fonds", presented from March 20 to April 30, 2008 at Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris. Editions Du Panama, Collection Panama Musées
2004
Pierre Buraglio, Avec qui ? A propos de qui ?, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
1998
Oeuvres 1965-1998, Centre Rhénan Art Contemporain, Alsace, Altkirch, France
1997
Avec/sans les mots, 1963-1996, Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimée de la Communauté Française de Belgique, La Louvière, Belgique
1992
Buraglio d'après..., Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de Picardie, Amiens, France
1984
Fenêtres, dessins d’après…, Musée Savoisien, Chambéry, France
1979
Buraglio : 1965-1979, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
1976
Ecrans : 1964-1976, ARC2 Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France