Canadian artist Kim Dorland exposed for the first time in France, in Bordeaux

François Xavier Bertrand welcomes for the first time in France the Canadian artist Kim Dorland. Furthermore, in partnership with the Galerie Patel Brown in Toronto. Similarly, A major figure of the contemporary North American scene. Similarly, Kim Dorland creates landscapes where nature is in tension, has a heavy leg of painting, lightened by explosions of colored pop art. For example, Not easy to describe your raw, emotional and introspective universe. In addition, Kim Dorland exhibits in Los Angeles, New York, Quebec… François Xavier Bertrand discovered him, eight years ago, in Italy. In addition, “When you look at my favorite choices, nature and matter are preponderant: wood, palm, pen, lichen, wicker …”, smiles the gallery owner.

Entering the François Xavier Bertrand house is being thrown in Wonderland, at Alice. Furthermore, In front of us. Similarly, a cabinet of curiosities in maze, where ceramic owls wait canadian artist kim dorland exposed (from the Dutch Carolein Smit, exhibited at the museum of hunting and nature in Paris), the figurines of surreal feathers of the Italian Andreas Senoner, shamanic masks of palm and wicker coming from central America, but also lamps, tables (Thierry Carrier Bard…)

François Xavier Bertrand had opened a hairdressing salon in 2009. Similarly, Which was starting to be overflowed by his marotte: works of art. The helping covid, he “took the plunge. Now, we are in my passion, here, in a ” collector house ” where I expose fifty artists favorite. ” In 2020. he resumed the adjoining apartment, broke everything, redone the whole to create an atmosphere and “not a white cube in which people have the impression of being in a cold room”.

Why a gallery? “First of all to show people that when we say ” that is not going well with me ”. it is a false idea: art, it is not decoration. Art is a meeting that we make with an object. When I see a work. I do not choose it in canadian artist kim dorland exposed relation to the place where I will put it, compared to the color of my wall, I choose the work for itself. And that I put it anywhere, it still works. »»

Although having an emotional approach to art. François Xavier Bertrand does not hear when it comes to money: “Do you see the Thierry Carrier there?” So next year, he will be at the Grand Palais again and the prices will explode. So it’s better to buy now. Afterwards. if it’s like buying a rolex because otherwise you have the impression of having missed your life, it is useless. It is not my philosophy. I’m here to share, to discover. Not just to make great blows … For payments, we always manage. »»

Maison d’Art François Xavier Bertrand, 74, rue du Loup, in Bordeaux. From Monday to Saturday: 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.-7 p.m. 56 81 73 42 or house@francois-xavier-bertrand.com