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Place of Caroline Dujardin
There are two notions of speed in painting. Speed of conception and speed of execution. The mind and the body. Bern Wery reconciles the two. His compositions incorporate a ferment of speed evoking a sense of franic motivation. He dreams of overtaking time itself. A notion which can only be illusory. Although the effects are very real. Captured between two fleeting seconds, between the blinks of an eye, a picture of blue en gold penetrates the canvas and shows itself as if for a photograph. The eye adapts. The word stands still. Once again the painting has just created itself. We are on the seventh day. Bern Wery lays down his brush. Luc Delisse, Le mouvement de l'oeil, 1988
Born in 1956. Studied painting at the Art academies of Ixelles, Watermael-Boitsfort, as well as at the Rijks Hoger Onderwijs voor Kunst of Etterbeek and the Kunstskolen de Holbaek (Denmark). Since 1980, he often exhibits his work in Belgium and abroad. His works are regularly shown in many museums and collections, and were many times nominated for prizes. Professor at the artschools of Braine-l'Alleud and Woluwe-Saint-Pierre. Within collections : Collections of Belgian State, Foundation pour l'Art Belge Contemporain, Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimée de la Louvière, Fine Arts Museum, Tournai, Musée d'Art Wallon, Art Museum of Silesia (Poland), Modern Art Museum Odessa (Ukraine), National Museum Liviv (Ukraine), Modern Art Museum Bolzano (Italy), Modern Art Museum Rijcka (Croatia), Osthaus Museum Hagen (Germany), Herning Kunstmuseum (Denmark), Contemporary Art Museum Narvaez (Venezuela), Modern Art Museum Porto (Brazil), Louvain-la-Neuve's Art Museum.
