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Bruno Mendonça

"What I like is to do unbalanced worksites. "

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Notes of biography

Painter, visual artist, performer and poet, Bruno Mendonça was born in Saint Omer in 1953. He came to Nice in 1961. He was only seven years old when he became familiar with the judo and the chess. He went to the high school in Nice and Monaco then he entered the school of the Political Sciences in 1973. He was involved in a variety of competitive sports including table tennis, squash, field hockey. Great traveller, since 1968, he has visited more than forty countries, by car, bike or train.
Bruno Mendonça held his first exhibition in 1973 and his first performances in 1976. For these, he came to Portugal, Zaire, Italy, Congo, Poland, Ireland and Germany.Two thesis were written about his performances and talk about the different « actions » which often last over 24 hours. He produced many performances with musicians, and poets. Since 1972, he has written novels, poetry, story of a performance, criticism for his artists friends, artist books.
Mendonça conceived his first books in 1976 and he created his own publishing house, « Utopia » in 1981. He did  more than 150 artist books, each one  from 1 to 20 copies.
Since 1985, he has run different workshops in visual arts at the IUFM, at the Free University in Bruxelles. He taught in Nice, Kinshasa, Helsinki, in Paris region and in the southwest. He provided his services in the hospitals with blinds, autistics, in the domains of gerontology where different practices where put into action.
He cooperated for the Performances Festivals at « La maison des jeunes et de la Culture » in Nice-Gorbella (1979,1980,1981), at « Art à la Page », festival for the artist books in Cagnes-sur-Mer (1990,1991, 1992).
In 1991, Mendonça moved to Paris where he lived and worked. He is often said the youngest artist of « l’Ecole de Nice », a movement under Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Arman and  later Cesar and Ben.
He died in 2011, household accident victim. Construction, deconstruction, the other, somewhere else, otherwise. He was « art traveller » - Voyageur de l’art - (title of the movie devoted to him by Patrick Rebeaud), insatiable, going to many countries, challenging goals, trying to invent his own civilisation,  made with sensations, like a tribute to life.

Artists on display

The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.

Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.

We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.

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Complete work(s)

Complete work(s)
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Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « B. M., Bibliothèques éphémères », collectif, Ed. de l'Ormaie, Vence, 2002
  • « B. M., Bibliothèques fractales », cat. d'expo., Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes, 2006
  • « Métamorphoses de l'écriture », collectif, cat. d'exposition, Contes, 2010
  • « B. Mendonça, bâtisseur d'aléatoire », collectif, Ed. Fage, Lyon, 2010
To read from the artist :
  • « B. M., Le voyageur de l'art », film de Patrick Rebeaud, Ed. L'Harmattan, 2010
Website :
www.bruno-mendonca.com

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Art movements

+ ARTISTS OF TODAY / XXth century /
+ SCHOOL OF NICE / 1965-1975 / Jean-Claude Farhi, Robert Filliou, Roland Flexner, Serge III, Pierre Pinoncelli, etc.
All art movements

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Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past.

These pages will undoubtedly make it possible for some of you to associate an image with its title or the other way round, for others it will be a good time to discover more on such and such artist. For the sake of confidentiality – the pieces being no longer available – we won't display neither their numbering or their price. For whatever reason, make sure to visit this amazing art database with to date 6441 online works just for your pleasure! Michelle Champetier

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