Bruno Tanquerel, French Artist
Painter and sculptor inspired by Marcel Duchamp
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About Bruno Tanquerel
Bruno Tanquerel is a French visual artist who has lived and worked in Bangkok for more than 18 years, following periods spent in Pittsburgh, Hanoi and Pondicherry.
Over a career spanning several decades, his work has been presented in more than 40 solo exhibitions and over 60 group exhibitions internationally. From painting to sculpture, installation and performance, Tanquerel has consistently resisted being identified with a single medium or recognizable formal language.
Despite this extensive exhibition history, he has remained deliberately at a certain distance from the conventional mechanisms of the art market — a position that reflects, in part, the lasting influence of Marcel Duchamp, a fellow native of Normandy.
This connection goes back to Tanquerel’s years at the École des Beaux-Arts in France. Beyond Duchamp’s questioning of the art establishment, what particularly resonates in Tanquerel’s practice is the refusal of fixed categories, predetermined styles and formal limitations.
For Tanquerel, technique is inseparable from the idea. He does not adapt an idea to an established technique or to a familiar personal style; instead, the medium, material and visual language are determined by what the work itself requires. Technical mastery therefore becomes a means of freedom rather than an end in itself.
This approach explains the apparent diversity of his work. Abstraction and figuration, painting and installation, image and object are not separate territories but different possibilities available to the same artistic intention. The technique changes because the idea changes.
Rather than relying on the repetition of an identifiable savoir-faire, Tanquerel allows each work to establish its own formal conditions. Familiar images, everyday objects and ordinary situations can consequently be transformed into works marked by ambiguity, tension and theatricality.
As he has stated: “Art resides only in the intention.”
B. Tanquerel
« The paradoxical nature of existence and the intuitive interpretation of reality as our universal subjectivity is where my inspiration leads me to visions and depiction of surrender. »
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Retrospectives of the last Solo exhibitions
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VIA PARIS Young International Art Fair 2019
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Venice Exhibition
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L FG
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