About the artist:

Born in 1957 in Marseille Lives and works in Lyon "Painting Bruno Yvonnet generally figurative , yet we moving towards other concerns that the subject represented . Portraits , waves, or vanities actually conceal an aesthetic question, pictorial , or even social which is the true object of his painting . The technique used is also due to this issue. It is therefore variable, and can become an element of meaning, or even a disturbing pattern : the figures painted on the plasterboard ( Et in Arcadia Ego series ) are made tar , bitumen which will gradually fade the image. It's the same for other series incorporating imaging photo-novels or pattern of the kiss. Other works of Bruno Yvonnet show clichés of the image, or those of the history of painting , through a detailed study of the composition and its stereotypes. Still others are indexed probability calculations for a future referendum ( Cyprus reunification ) of study or business style: Valiant series of portraits shows the heroic kind , in the historical diversity of appearances ( or Riefensthal but Dovzhenko Renoir also the film to us freedom ) and reveals the ambiguity of this emphasis. The work of Bruno Yvonnet is more analytical than figurative ; it reveals the decorative and iconographic features painting, grows up the absurd, and thereby activates a metaphorical potential. " Excerpt from a text by Françoise Lonardoni , 2013 source Documents d'artistes Rhône -Alpes