Keith Haring

Jean-Baptiste Bernadet</a>'s paintings, in each of his series, set out to explore one of the thousands of variations that exist between the solid state of the painted canvas, with its dogged permanence of a definitive object, and the liquid state of our emotions: the continuous, distracted flux of our perceptions, the waking dream of memories that furtively surface in the constant swell of our consciousness. An art of the fugue, of the vapour of time.</p><p><br></p>" />

Bleckner, the soft focus of his compositions reflects the workings of the mind, now attentive, now oblivious. Considering the relationship between biological and psychic, cellular and celestial, the works in Commune interrogate the vulnerability of the human condition and humanity’s place in the natural order. In What is the Grass, the artist begins with a scan of the human brain, transforming the network of synaptic connections into an image which at once evokes a floral meadow and a constellation in space. Alternating between the micro and the macro, the composition embraces the complexity of systems that are beyond our understanding or control. As the artist remarked, “There is an ineffable quality of imagery that you can locate but it always slips through. Things aren't in our control as we would like them to be, they have a fluid quality and they keep moving and changing. That's a kind of Buddhist idea. This is something that we get used to either willingly or unwillingly - things change.”</p><p><br></p>" />