Objectal
Objectal is a group of two artists: Bernard Dreyfuss and Claude Pougny. These two artists studied at the National School of Fine Arts, where they met in 1965. It was then after many joint projects that Objectal was created in 1976. As you will see, there is a bowl in each of their works. This bowl is not a coincidence and is an integral part of their touch. The bowl is the icon of an everyday object present in almost all their works. He is both an integral part of the painting in figuration, as well as in abstraction since 1978.
Works
Les nuits des temps
Les nuits des temps
Biography
Objectal is a group of two artists: Bernard Dreyfuss and Claude Pougny. These two artists studied at the National School of Fine Arts, where they met in 1965. It was then after many joint projects that Objectal was created in 1976. As you will see, there is a bowl in each of their works. This bowl is not a coincidence and is an integral part of their touch. The bowl is the icon of an everyday object present in almost all their works. He is both an integral part of the painting in figuration, as well as in abstraction since 1978.
Objectal is a group of two artists: Bernard Dreyfuss and Claude Pougny. These two artists studied at the National School of Fine Arts, where they met in 1965. It was then after many joint projects that Objectal was created in 1976. As you will see, there is a bowl in each of their works. This bowl is not a coincidence and is an integral part of their touch. The bowl is the icon of an everyday object present in almost all their works. He is both an integral part of the painting in figuration, as well as in abstraction since 1978.
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What to do with a collection? Pursue it to infinity? Better use it as a support, pretext, figure, subject… Since 1978, the Objectal group (Bernard Dreyfuss and Claude Pougny) has combined the bowl in all its states, its approaches, its historical, geographical, decorative, allegorical and mythical variants. The bowl as object of analysis and vector of synthesis. Objectal thus associates the desire of the object and the object of desire. In turn and simultaneously, sociologists, historians, directors, artisans, creators, humorists, linguists, archaeologists, semiologists, Dreyfuss and Pougny always remain radically painters. They practice, with full hands (four in total), a two-headed painting that takes hold of the bowl to make it an object of iconographic studies. The collection becomes a repertoire, a reservoir, a library, an inventory and inexhaustible collection. Henceforth «the porcelain bowl without handles», in the infinity of its declinations, disappears to better discover itself in its very plasticity. The bowl becomes, thanks to Objectal, the paradigm of a total art!
Robert Bonaccorsi
Exhibitions
Career
Solo exhibitions
2025
Symbolismes, Pyramide des Métiers d’Art, Saint-Amand-Montrond, France
2018
Dictateurs, Galerie Baudoin-Lebon, Paris, France
2014
Galerie Anna Tschopp, Marseille, France
Objectal avant Objectal (1964–1976), Villa Tamaris, La
Seyne-sur-Mer, France
Solo exhibitions
2025
Symbolismes, Pyramide des Métiers d’Art, Saint-Amand-Montrond, France
2018
Dictateurs, Galerie Baudoin-Lebon, Paris, France
2014
Galerie Anna Tschopp, Marseille, France
Objectal avant Objectal (1964–1976), Villa Tamaris, La
Seyne-sur-Mer, France
Le mystère Objectal, Galerie Anne-Marie et Roland Pallade, Lyon, France
Fantasmes de Paul – Rêveries de Vincent, Galerie du Centre, Paris, France
2013
Double jeu, Galerie Le Garage, Orléans, France
2011
Bicephale Painting 1978–2011, Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
2007
Galerie Urban Art, Miami, USA
Encore une fois (with Mathias Gessinger), Wiesbaden, Germany
2006
Abbaye de Noirlac, Saint-Amand-Montrond, France
2005
Galerie Urban Art, Miami, USA
2003
Musée Saint-Vic et Cité de l’Or, Saint-Amand-Montrond, France
2002
Galerie Pascal Gabert, Paris, France
Galerie Reimund & Marlies Boderke, Bad Homburg, Germany
2000
École du Grand Meaulnes, Épineuil-le-Fleuriel, France
1999
Galerie Pascal Gabert, Paris, France
1998
Galerie du Théâtre, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France
1997
Association Musée d’Art Contemporain, Espace Triennale, Chamalières, France
Galerie Gastaud-Caillard, Paris, France
1995
Fragment, Galerie Bellevue, Malcesine, Italy
Frammenti, Galerie Arts Nouveaux, Verona, Italy
1994
Galerie Stolanova, Wiesbaden, Germany
1992
Fondation Hewlett-Packard, Paris, France
1990
Galerie Barbier-Beltz, Paris, France
Musée Clémentine, Wiesbaden, Germany
1988
Galerie 17, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Metropolitan Art, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
1987
Pistes et Traverses, Musée du Prieuré et Hôtel de Ville, Montereau, France
1986
Tôles Étoiles, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Group exhibitions
2026
Narratives, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2021
Fenêtre sur le passé, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2017
Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie Baudoin-Lebon, Paris, France
2016
Space Kaan (with Baudoin Lebon), Seoul, South Korea
Art Busan (with Baudoin Lebon), Busan, South Korea
2015
Art Élysées (with Baudoin Lebon), Paris, France
2014
Une relecture, Villa Tamaris / Centre d’Art, Toulon, France
2012
Galerie Christiane Vallée, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Drawing Now (Contemporary Drawing Fair), Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Galerie Wort Art, Wiesbaden, Germany
2011
10 Years of Exhibitions, Cité de l’Or, Saint-Amand-Montrond, France
2010
Figuration Narrative, Guest of Honour, International Art
Fair of Bourges, France
2009
Creation for Faïencerie de Gien, Maison & Objet, Paris Nord Villepinte (Paris, Brussels, Gien, Barcelona)
2008
La mer, Galerie Pascal Gabert, Paris, France
2007
Galerie Kunstkabinet, Heusden, Germany
Positionen, Augsburg, Germany
2005
St’Art (with Galerie Pascal Gabert), Strasbourg, France
2004
Vinyl! Event – 60 Years of Vinyl Records, Galerie Trait Personnel, Lyon, France
2003
Balises pour une histoire, travelling exhibition, FRAC PACA, France
2002
Urban Art, Miami, USA
Boston University, Paris, France
1999
Urban Art, Miami, USA