BRUNO GADENNE

‘Bruno Gadenne (b. 1990) is a globe-trotter, a traveller. He’s driven by a strong desire to experiment and verify the beauty of the world. The one of the primordial landscapes, the jungle, the primary forest and other remote lands. A contemporary romantic attitude through which he collects, in notebooks and in his memory, reminiscences and ‘’dreamings of a solitary wanderer’’ that he brings back to the studio.
These landscapes, which the painter’s body has crossed, are transcribed on the canvas from pictures the artist took himself and then digitally transformed.
The image processing creates a subtle distorsion of the light, a strange feeling allied to a still intact wonderment.

Juliette Fontaine, Les assises du Monde

After studying at Sèvres (FR) and Boston( USA), Bruno Gadenne got his master of fine arts in 2014 at the HEAR, Strasbourg (formerly École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg).
The same year, he has his first solo show with the gallery Bertrand Gillig in Strasbourg. Highlighted by the exhibitions of the Prix International de Peinture Novembre à Vitry in 2016 and the Icart Prize 2017, Bruno Gadenne is the 2018 laureate of the Théophile Schuler Prize. In 2019, after being the guest of honor at the Salon des Artistes de Massy, he has his first solo show in the USA, at the agnès b. gallery in New-York City.
Self organized backpacking residencies around the world are the basis of his landscape paintings, making small plein air gouache paintings on site, deep in the jungle, and larger oil paintings back in his studio in Paris.