Artists

Bernard Piffaretti

Press release

Kate MacGarry is pleased to present Bernard Piffaretti's third solo show at the gallery. Bernard Piffaretti was born in 1955 in Saint-Etienne, France and lives and works in Paris. Since 1986 Piffaretti has committed his practice to the ‘duplication method’, abstract paintings that appear to be two identical halves split through the vertical axis. Closer inspection reveals moments of differentiation: the inclination of the brushstrokes, the number of drips, the weight of the hue. “The duplication clouds the origin of the time of the work. All supremacy is abolished, and that is the subject of my painting”. Solo exhibitions include XXL, Ceysson & Bénétière, Wandhaff, Luxembourg (2025); Je n’ai jamais peinte un tableau récent, Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Pour finir encore, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris (2024); Kombi, Klemm’s, Berlin (2023); Ridgeline, Kate MacGarry, London (2022) and Double, Blanc International Contemporary Art Space, Beijing (2021). Recent group exhibitions include Hors Format, MAMC, Saint-Etienne, France (2024); Repetition, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2023); The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2022); Collection. La composante Peinture, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France (2019); Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall, Germany (2017); Abstraction/Figuration, Musée des Beaux Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (2015) and Cycle futur antérieur, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland (2010). Piffaretti’s work is included in the collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc-Jean, Luxembourg; Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris; FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France; MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. amongst others.