Alligand, Bernard

Bernard Alligand is an artist of matter, light and movement.

His many travels all over the world and his numerous stays in residences of artists (Egypt, Morocco, Iceland, UAE, Oman, Asia …) are sources of inspirations that he declines on different supports as paintings, engravings, ceramics, wooden sculptures and artist books. Bernard Alligand is pluridisciplinary, artist who uses a variety of materials for his pictural work like organic and raw materials, minerals, vegetables, manufactured and recycled products, with which he creates cosmic, allegorical artwork.

For over 20 years he has been working with writers and poets to illustrate unpublished texts by established authors : Michel Butor, Gaston Puel, Salah Stétié, Robert Marteau, Régine Detambel, Jean-Pierre Geay, Kenneth White …

A « catalogue raisonné » of his engraved artwork listed from 1985 to 2004 was published in 2005. A second “catalogue raisonné” is in progress to compile his work from 2005 to 2017.

His artwork can be seen in a lot of institutional and private collections and is currently exhibited in all the continents.