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IDENTIFICATION SHEET. THE ARTIST :
Michel BARZIN
Name: BARZIN
First name: MICHEL
Born on: 02/07/1949
Place of birth: Lokeren
Formation: He is studied art in Liege in 1975
EXHIBITIONS
2000
Galerie ArteCoppo Verviers " Pousse, la tête "
1999
" La Galerie " Trois Rivières-Canada
Galerie Arte Coppo Verviers, " Ma tête et ta jambe "
Représentation Belge aux 20 ans des Artistes du Jura
Delémont Suisse
Fresque de Dison 60 m21998
Biennale Internationale de Gravure de Belgrade Yougoslavie
" Petit format de papier ", Biennale Cul des Sarts
Musée d'Art Moderne, " L'arbre que cache la forêt "-Liège1997
Musée National du papier-Malmedy
" Du bon usage de l'emballage ", Musée des Beaux Arts de Verviers
Le livre d'Artiste, Musée Royal de Mariemont
" Graveurs de la Province de Liège ", Cracovie-Pologne1996
Galerie Détour - Jambes
" Presse - papier "Trois Rivières, invité -Canada
Biennale de Gravure, Bitela- Macédoine1995
Galerie Arte Coppo, Verviers
Musée d'Asilah : gravures belges -Maroc
Cerfs - volants d'artistes :
Espace 27, Ministère Communauté française - Bruxelles
" Fleuves " : exposition autour de l'édition - La Vênerie - Bruxelles
Réalisation de l'œuvre publique du hall omnisport de Wegnez1994
Lauréat du Concours " œuvre publique " pour le hall Omnisport de Wegnez
Centre Masereel à Kasterlee1993
Nominé à la Biennale Internationale de Maastricht Pays-Bas
Galerie Arte Coppo - Verviers
Symposium International d'Offset d'Art, Trois Rivières (Canada)1992
Médaille, illustration au Salon ULUPUDS - Belgrade -Yougoslavie1991
" Livrés à eux-mêmes " Alter Ego-Mons-Virton-Namur
Centre de la gravure et de l'image imprimée - Sélection au concours - La Louvière
" Gastronomie "- Bibliothèque Municipale - Millau -France1989
Galerie Krüll - Krefeld -Allemagne
" Grands formats "- Centre de la gravure et de l'image imprimée - La Louvière1988
Certificat d'excellence, Small works, ART - Horizons, New York, -Etats-Unis d'Amérique1987
Biennale Internationale de Gravure - Liège1986
Galerie d ' Etat - Przemysl -Pologne1985
Wenniger Gallery - Boston (USA)
" Le social au singulier "- Le Botanique - Bruxelles1984
Galerie Mathys - Liège
Galerie Triangl - Bruxelles1983
" Le Petit Chaperon Rouge "- Le Botanique - Bruxelles
" De Comhaire à Dacos "- Musée d'Art Wallon - Liège1982
Galeri Kridhuset - Odense -Danemark1981
Prix " Jeunes Talents ", Liège
Ebury Gallery - London -Grande-Bretagne
Galerie La Marotte - Theux
Centre Culturel de Hückelhoven Allemagne1980
Prix du Millénaire de la Principauté de Liège, gravure
Assembly House - Norwich -Grande-Bretagne1979
Prix de la Paix, dessin - Mons
Galerie Primaver - Verviers
Galerie L'Estampille - Bruxelles1978
Prix Goebel - Fuerison, gravure - Liège
Grand prix quinquennal de la Ville de Liège, gravure
" Le Burin et le Pointe Sèche "- Cabinet des Estampes - Liège1977
Galerie de la Société des Beaux-Arts - Liège
Petite Galerie des Chiroux - Liège1975
Prix " Créativité 75 "- Huy
" Itinéraire du projet "- Galerie de la Province - Liège ;
La Cour des Miracles - Paris -France1974
" Jeunes graveurs liègeois "- Galerie de l'Etuve - Liège1971
Prix Van Haelen, dessin - BruxellesEn italique = distinctions
HIS WORK
The different techniques he uses are drawing, carving and painting.
Sometimes he asks other craftsmen to intervene in his artistic quest (cameramen for video, workers to make the supports for his large size projects)
The " finish " of his works must be perfect: the relationship between the volumes and the intimate link between his work and its frame
HIS PHILOSOPHYHe doesn't define his art but expects to find his place in today's art.
He doesn't deliver any message but he wants to question, to tease, to move and to shock. According to him it's important to show his work to the public because it's the major goal of art " Art in an ivory tower isn' interesting " he says. During the day he practices his art and in the evening he teaches at the " Academie of Verviers " to make a living.
The role of an artist in society, creating, isn't always recognized by a majority of people.
ARTWORK
The work presented here is " Les Hautes Fagnes " (The High Fens) by Michel Barzin. It shows soberly the area where he lives (The Ardennes).
Michel Barzin's work consists in 7 pictures showing the Fens at different moments of the year. The Fens are a theme which is often worked by artists living in the Ardennes. M. Barzin has been able to translate it differently : neither oil painting mor classical and ordinary landscapes. He prefers serigraphy giving rhythm and energy to the picture through simplified shapes.
In drawing th Fens he has tried to innovate and it's why he underlines his works with a golden edge and will transmit his vision of things.
We've chosen to analyse two works in this group.
He is our presentation of work 2
This picture gives an impression of quietness due to its simplicity, its sobriety, its symetry.
The shapes, very simple, are seen through the lines and the volumes.
The surfaces are animated. The valeur and repartition of the proportions chosen give a feeling of distance (atmospharie values).
In this serigraphy representing reddening Fens in Fall, with a barren fir true and 3 little insolent black clouds, M. Barzin reveals the extent of his talent with that touch of irony and humour which are so typical.
And last but not least: the analysis of work 3
This work reveals an extreme sobriety of colours: decreasing blue and green translate the depth and the vastness of the Fens. And as usual a touch of humour with the traditional golden edge.
We have always enjoyed his style and his humour. He has been able to renew in a very personal way a theme often treated very academically.OTHER WORKS OF THE ARTIST
WORKS EXHIBITED AT THE GALLARY " ARTE COPPO " VERVIERS
FROM JANUARY 6 , UNTIL FEBRUARY 13,.
