Bernard Aubertin (1934-2015) - Voiture brulée

Beautiful artwork by the international artist Bernard Aubertin.

Bernard Aubertin is the artist of Red and Fire...his early works date back to the beginning of the
the ’60s; he is one of the founders of Gruppo Zero. The watchword: start again from Zero.
At the end of the 1950s, the art world was still divided between Realism and Abstract Art.
Aubertin regards the world as an artifice, and this intuition drives him to dematerialize.
Progressively, his works, as if he were trying to reflect on another facet of reality
concrete. Thus, from the red monochromes of 1958, early images of a “sea of fire”
'petrified', to the ash avalanches ten years later, the succession of his gestures corresponds to
a rigorous logic of dematerialization, according to which the work becomes, from time to time, more
vibrant, lighter, more fragile and finally more elusive. In a meaningful way, the action
It appeared in 1961 with the 'fire paintings', ephemeral works, if not for the fact that
They exist only if there is an audience watching them go up in smoke... The fire is subtle.
Elusive and at the same time concrete. Always similar and always different, fire can
to be reborn here or there as a result of contact or of friction, but the matter that it
consuma, instead, is definitively canceled: it is this double spectacle of fire,
renewable and destructive, which Aubertin invites us to participate in. In the latest works, his
The themes are renewed with novel materials and techniques. Its limitless energy inspires us.
transmits new reflections and engages us in sensations of strong emotional impact.