Prolific French artist Bruno Tanquerel is showcasing his eye-catching artwork in an exhibition titled “Portrait Painting/Intimate-Memory” at Alliance Francaise Bangkok from Thursday until April 1.
In his 60s now, Bruno was born in the Normandy region of France and graduated from Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Thanks to his strong technical inventiveness, his aesthetic is a pastiche of styles in which categories become blurred, a fusion of abstraction and figuration, which transforms the ordinary and every day into dramatic theatricality.
He has lived and worked in several countries (France, the United States, India, and Vietnam) before moving to Bangkok more than 12 years ago. Tanquerel’s works have been displayed in more than 20 solo exhibitions and 40 group exhibitions globally.
In his latest exhibition, he searches for the meaning of how one creates…
