Among the 86 lots in its upcoming Modern and Contemporary Art auction on 19 October 2021, PIASA will present this oil on canvas by Bernard Rancillac.
Rancillac works in painting; he quickly overcame his servility to the photographic document and recreated the form by transposing photographic space and lighting into equivalent pictorial terms. The chromaticism [...] is distributed in contrasting planes with sharp edges. Their arrangement in the spatial organisation of the canvas always obeys a keen sense of rhythm and cadence that many practitioners of geometric abstraction might envy. This stylistic attitude places Bernard Rancillac's figuration close to the cold abstraction of the hard edge. In any case, it contrasts it with the figurations of the 1950s, which evaded the concerns of the present in the past and meaningless expression of a lost rusticity. Rancillac's art is therefore at the confluence of art history and history, and he will always be credited with having, with doggedness, without compromise, in refusing pictorial conformism, wanted to express life through art and to reintroduce art into life through the media most accessible to those who are most deprived of art.
Bernard Ceysson, Rancillac, extract from the catalogue of the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie de Saint-Étienne, 1971
Bernard Rancillac (born in 1931)
Li Noi i Lim li spo, 1964
Estimate : 28 000 / 35 000 €
