Pierre-Luc Bartoli

Born in Aix-en-Provence in 1973 to an art afficionado father, self-trained painter Pierre-Luc Bartoli grew up surrounded by painting and art.

In 2002, he moved to Paris and had his first exhibition at Galerie Selzer Lejeune followed in 2003 by a second one at CNEA (the national art education centre) - Grenier des Grands Augustins (former Picasso studio) in the sixth arrondissement of the city.

For the past 15 years he has exhibited regularly around the theme of landscape, urban scenes, and genre painting. His work is part of a French neo-expressionistic tradition.

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His approach to the canvas, wood panel or monotype on paper is to let the brush, the colour and the material guide him, and to let go. It makes for a fragile end-result, but therein lies the potency of his work. Instead of gladdening the eye, it seizes hold of it. It is hard to look away, impossible to disregard. It captures and entraps the gaze.

Bartoli’s painting is bold, instinctive, sculptural. Devoid of narrative and concept, sometimes even unsettling, his works are nothing if not dramatic.

Painting is a kind of quest. A quest to escape the human condition and to give things meaning.”

The subjects come to me. I don’t go and look for them; they find me. Why does an image become an obsession? I don’t have an answer to that. But I like the randomness of it all, the constant activity. Something accidental, a stain, or something falling is always far more interesting than something you might set out to do deliberately.”

In 2019, Pierre-Luc Bartoli met and began collaborating with Parisian gallerist Cyril Guernieri, based in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Cyril is a proponent of new French figuration.

 

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Quatre épis - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile - 54x73 cm
Quatre épis - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile - 54x73 cm
La trouée - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 250x200 cm
La trouée - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 250x200 cm
Flaque de blé - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 200x350 cm
Flaque de blé - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 200x350 cm
Epis plumes - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 54x81 cm
Epis plumes - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 54x81 cm
Epis jaunes II - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 97x162 cm
Epis jaunes II - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 97x162 cm
Epis gris II - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 60x120 cm
Epis gris II - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 60x120 cm
Epis gris I - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 50x73 cm
Epis gris I - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 50x73 cm
Epis au vent - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 54x73 cm
Epis au vent - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 54x73 cm
Epis au vent - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile - 100x81 cm
Epis au vent - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile - 100x81 cm
Epis au couchant III - 2021 - Huile sur toile - 140x210 cm
Epis au couchant III - 2021 - Huile sur toile - 140x210 cm
Epis au couchant II - 2021 - huile sur toile - 97x195 cm
Epis au couchant II - 2021 - huile sur toile - 97x195 cm
Blé vert - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 60x120 cm
Blé vert - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 60x120 cm
Blé mûr - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile - 210x140 cm
Blé mûr - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile - 210x140 cm
Blé gris - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 81x100 cm
Blé gris - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 81x100 cm
Blé du nuit - 2021 - Hhuile sur toile - 120x120 cm
Blé du nuit - 2021 - Hhuile sur toile - 120x120 cm
Blé de nuit II - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 120x60cm
Blé de nuit II - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 120x60cm
Blé de nuit I - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 46x65 cm
Blé de nuit I - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 46x65 cm
Blé d'orage - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 140x210cm
Blé d'orage - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 140x210cm
Blé d'or - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile- 200x350 cm
Blé d'or - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile- 200x350 cm
Blé d'or - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile - 120x60 cm
Blé d'or - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile - 120x60 cm
Blé d'azur - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 180x300 cm
Blé d'azur - 2022 - technique mixte sur toile - 180x300 cm
Blé d'azur - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile -120x120 cm
Blé d'azur - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile -120x120 cm
Blé au vent III - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile - 60x120 cm
Blé au vent III - 2021 - technique mixte sur toile - 60x120 cm
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