Bernard Bezzina
1956 (France)
Biography
This visual artist, who is both a sculptor and a painter, is also, in a way, a novelist—and why not, a director of matter.
Born in 1956, Bernard Bezzina divides his time between Italy and the Var region, not far from Toulon, where he works in a studio surrounded by nature. His creations, in a sense, tell their own stories, play a role, and reveal secrets. Bezzina’s goal lies in a nearly impossible quest for total art, for an absolute of representation achieved through the reconstruction of fragments of beings that are amplified. This exploratory work requires the density of sculpture. Bezzina is both intuitive and cerebral. He is drawn to the notion of “Division,” to which his research on matter has led him.
He deconstructs, fragments, and shatters the structure, only to proceed to a fundamental reassembly. Thus we move from division to “amplification”—a kind of alchemy that endows the chosen fragment with a power of a new order, transforming it into an independent entity that is neither quite the same nor quite another. A sort of expressive explosion that says everything about the being by showcasing only a part of it. “Division” proceeds in this manner.
