Biographie
Textile worker then militant unionist for more than twenty years, Bernard Demange reconverted into the artistic milieu. After obtaining a degree from Metz Art School, he is now a Creative Arts teacher in a technical high-school. His work has been exhibited in the FNAC galleries of Paris-Montparnasse, Rheims, Nimes, and in the galleries Filature in Mulhouse and De Visu in Marseille. He was nominated at Voies Off, Arles in 2000, special mention Bourse du Talent-portrait and winner of the SFR “Paris-Photo” Lumière de la Ville in 2008. His images have been published in numerous journals and magazines (Le Monde magazine, Liberation, Art Actuel, Shot, AZart, Photo Nouvelle)
Présentation
Instead of trying to grasp the truth, the depth of a being by realizing classic photographic portraits, I compose fictitious and incongruous characters with my clothes, some objects more or less diverted from their uses and solemn, dramatic expressions that I play.
Inevitably emerge, consciously and unconsciously, references to the images that have marked me. Digested images, distorted by the selectivity of my memory.
Little by little, recurring themes emerge including death, sex, imbecility and oil painting.