Michel BESNARD

Criticism

Michel Besnard, a former graphic arts teacher at the Regional School of Fine Arts in Rouen, possesses a rare ensemble of creative talents, ranging from typographing novel print characters, to engraving polychrome wood, and painting, printmaking and sculpting. Here is an artist also fascinated by the history of writing, and who displays exceptional brilliance in his wood engravings. He ardently and loquaciously conveys his graphic and chromatic universe through his efficient choice of successive colours, obtaining precise and infinite nuances thanks to the high-quality and essentially pure printing inks used by printing company and newspaper "Affiches de Normandie". Starting from sinuous and mysterious drawings, Michel Besnard’s fantasy and narrative world emerges, revealing its sources to be all that is most evocative in art. And that’s not forgetting his flavourful statues of rigidified paper, whose completion in bronze is quite simply astonishing.

André RUELLAN, art critic

Exhibitions

Du 18/12/2017 au 06/01/2018 : PARIS 4è : MICHEL BESNARD PARTICIPE A L'EXPOSITION "GRAIN DE RIZ" A LA GALERIE METANOIA

Du 12/10/2016 au 12/10/2017 : ROUEN : EXPOSITIONS DE MICHEL BESNARD A PARIS, TOKYO ET CHYPRE

Du 16/10/2014 au 19/10/2014 : PARIS : MICHEL BESNARD EXPOSE AU SALON D'AUTOMNE 2014 DE PARIS

Du 28/11/2013 au 09/12/2013 : PARIS 15è : EXPOSITION ROSELYNE ET MICHEL BESNARD A LA GALERIE ARTITUDE

Du 07/06/2013 au 11/09/2013 : LILLE : EXPOSITION-VENTE ROSELYNE ET MICHEL BESNARD A L'HERMITAGE GANTOIS