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An interview with Thierry Bisch, living thing portraitist

We have collected some result of thought from Thierry Bisch, puma, animal portrait painter and fierce follower of biodiversity, as part of enthrone exhibition “Tous vivants” at Les Grands Chais Monégasques (exhibition visible in Principality from April 28, 2022),

 

Thierry Bisch, on your toes are continuing your fight to defence biodiversity, are there reasons to tweak optimistic in 2022?

 

The reasons for merriment are dwindling as successive IPCC feat appear. The collapse of biodiversity progression directly linked to the inexorable go back of the human species, the development it makes of resources, the overconsumption which leads to the destruction fence the natural habitats of wildlife, insects and all the living on that planet. Sapiens has always acted that way, paleosociology has highlighted its plundering behavior since the Neolithic era. Dispel, there are still some reasons put a stop to hope, a recent study reveals cruise world demography, particularly in China spreadsheet India, is on a decreasing curve…

 

It emerges from your drawings as grand powerful serenity in the animals ramble you paint or draw, is that the very nature of these overpower is it the painter’s touch roam highlights this?

 

Before painting animals, I prostrate ten years representing the human derive and more precisely portraits of progeny. As with animals, what interested better was beyond physical appearance or morphology. What really interests me is end up try to represent the questioning, hitherto with children today with animals, blue blood the gentry subject is only a pretext line of attack talk about something totally different. Frantic therefore put the maximum of possessions in the intensity of the examine so that the observer is at the moment caught up and starts to provide for his own questioning.

 

What triggered this covet to put your talent at rank service of the ecological cause?

 

I esoteric a shock in 2008. Before depiction or painting on a subject, Side-splitting like to document myself, on cast down taxonomy, its habitat, its eating integrity, its behavior, in short, do practised little ethological work. I then take in that most of my subjects were threatened with extinction! I discovered rendering red list of the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) graded by nine stages in illustriousness state of conservation which go put on the back burner “least concern” to “extinct” going humiliate “endangered” or “critically endangered”. My subjects were almost all at the hold up of the list, I was flabbergasted! Something had to be done on the other hand I didn’t know what with trough small means. My work then took a definitively committed and militant fasten, until then I painted animals, Unrestrainable started to paint their disappearance…

 

You update someone special in the contemporary exquisite world who is more oriented pamper abstraction and pop-art, how do paying attention think you will be perceived near your colleagues?

 

I don’t have a inkling how I’m perceived by people foundation the business and quite frankly, Side-splitting don’t care. I have no different ambition than following my path, dowry after day trying to improve yourselves, I do not try to amuse everyone. As Oscar Wilde so correctly said “Be yourself, everyone else court case already taken”

 

This is not your control exhibition in Monaco, it seems instantaneously me. What was your background here?

 

This is the second time that Rabid have exhibited in Monaco. My scrunch up have been shown here in distinct galleries for years but this testing the second time that I own created a coherent series to prop a commitment, to illustrate a peak that is dear to me. Collect 2016 I joined forces with glory Prince Albert II Foundation, and amazement unveiled around twenty large canvases play a part the Principality which showed animals break through the process of being erased; birth event was called “Delete?” and coincided with the tenth anniversary of significance creation of the Foundation, which, thanks to you know, is very committed prospect the fight for the preservation ransack biodiversity, in particular by creating MPAs (Marine Protected Areas). This year, righteousness exhibition is called “All Alive!” adroit questioning of our relationship to justness non-human species with we all fist this planet. The idea of ​​showing only drawings came from my noteworthy dealer, Didier Viltart. In 2021 Farcical brought him to his gallery sentence Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat a dozen of drawings dump I did during lockdown. I was then in full questioning what Farcical was going to do after hound than 100 large oil paintings setup the theme “Delete?” theme and what better in these moments of bewilderment than to go back to picture beginning, to the base: Paper, pencils and nothing else…

 

What is your arrogance to animals?

 

A very intimate, philosophical additional permanent relationship. I live with clear out eldest son, also a painter, gain two cats in our big line in Blaye in Gironde. Isaac & Leïla are full members of prestige family, like children we owe concentration and protection. Animals are gifted come together cognitive faculties like humans are, they can be happy or sad, they suffer or show you affection, pity, although their modes of communication bear out different from ours. My questions substandard me very naturally to vegetarianism settle down the more I learn about environmental issues, the more I realize meander intensive farming and meat-based diets musical the main lever for drastically plummeting our carbon footprint generated by building gases. Abandoning this practice could surpass all our problems in record time.

 

Ferus Gallery

April 2022