L’artiste montpelliérain Christophe Bicharel est passionné par les animaux. Midi Libre
L’artiste montpelliérain, passionné par les animaux, a été invité par le Mouvement d’art populaire (MAP). Il présente ses œuvres chatoyantes jusqu’au 7 février, au deuxième étage de la Maison Relin, à Béziers.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000Until February 7, the Mouvement d’Art Populaire (MAP), whose premises are located on the second floor of the Maison Relin in Béziers, is hosting a whole menagerie created by the painter and designer Christophe Bicharel. “We do five exhibitions a year, including the Salon du dessin in March”, explains Danièle Ginot, the president of the MAP. “We met Christophe at one of these shows”.
Since then, the Montpellier artist has been invited several times by the Béziers association. Invitations to which he always responds with pleasure. With 25 years of experience, he teaches visual arts to children and adults, and participates in various projects. His personal creations mainly revolve around his great passion, furry, scaly or feathered animals. “When I was a child, I wanted to go into a career to take care of animals,” says Christophe Bicharel. “But it was a time when parents decided for us. So I studied Fine Arts. I was able to return to my passion for animals by making them the subject of my works”.
“A Bic artist”
To find models, he relies on photographs, which he often takes himself. During his travels, he captures the rhinoceroses of Tanzania, the chamois of the Alps, the tortoises of the Dominican Republic. But he can also find subjects five minutes from home, at the Lunaret zoo. Although he sometimes creates large canvases in acrylic and oil, his favorite technique is ballpoint pen. “I am what you call a Bic artist. I draw with a fine-tipped ballpoint pen, coloring dot by dot. It takes me about fifteen hours per work”.
The opening took place on Saturday, January 25. Christophe Spina, municipal councilor delegated to culture, praised “works full of love and colors, which warm the heart in this rather complicated world”.