Night Bird, 2023
Romain Bernini, born in 1979, Paris, France. He lives and works in Paris.
Romain Bernini is a magician on the French contemporary art scene. Each canvas remains a mystery to which he alone holds the key. His color, often oscillating between blue and pink, bathes his canvases and nourishes the more detailed figures that appear in the foreground.
The scenes we discover are disconcerting. Halfway between incantations and realistic imagery, Bernini's canvases allow us to experience " the elsewhere ". They play on a superb contradiction, being neither entirely dreamlike nor entirely real. Tropical plants meet prehistoric figurines, while Indian ornaments and faces take their place in dense forest landscapes. Nothing is ever static; nothing is ever certain.
If this chronological and thematic mix disturbs us, it's precisely because Romain Bernini paints in tune with the alchemy of each color. The thick, colorful mist that becomes the backdrop for each event is nothing other than paint at its most gaseous or liquid.
His work can be found in French national collections such as CNAP (Paris, France), Frac Île-de-France (Paris, France), Frac Pays de la Loire (Carquefou, France) and MAC VAL (Paris, France).